Evaluation of 3D Translabial Ultrasound Imaging for Pessary Size Estimation

Launched by WESTERN UNIVERSITY, CANADA · Sep 20, 2019

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Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Current pessary users (\> 6 months) who have no pessary related complication, including discomfort, repeated vaginal bleeding, and pessary extrusion
• • Are able to provide informed consent
• • Can perform self-care, i.e. removing and inserting the pessary themselves
• • Are willing to remove their pessary 2 days before the ultrasound examination date.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Inability to give informed consent
• • Inability to communicate with the person performing the consent and the sonographer performing ultrasound scanning
• • History of pelvic radiation or surgery, (including hysterectomy)
• • Using pessaries other than ring, incontinence dish, donut, Shaatz, Marland, or Gellhorn.
• • Inability to perform the Valsalva maneuver or pelvic floor contraction
• • Restricted mobility that prevents them from ambulating to assess the comfort level of the pessary during the initial pessary fitting visit.
• • Lack of sensation at the pelvic floor.
• • Being pregnant at the time of the examination.