title: Perioperative and postoperative morbidity after sacrocolpopexy according to age in Korean women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aimed to compare perioperative and postoperative morbidity of older and younger women undergoing sacrocolpopexy (SCP).
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study included 271 patients who underwent laparotomic SCP for symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse from November 2008 to June 2013 at our institution. By the review of medical records, perioperative and postoperative data including the length of the surgery, estimated blood loss, blood transfusion, the length of hospital stay, wound complications and febrile morbidity were collected. In addition, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, or neurological adverse events were retrieved. The need for an indwelling urinary catheter or performance of clean intermittent self-catheterization, mesh erosion rate and the number of days required for each were included in the postoperative outcomes. For the outcome variable analyzed in this study, the patients was dichomotized into women aged 65 and older and those younger than 65.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One hundred and thirty-five (49.8%) patients were younger than 65 and 136 (50.2%) were aged 65 and older. Older women had higher body mass index, vaginal parity and prior surgery for hysterectomy than younger women (P<0.05). And older women had higher baseline comorbidities, such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiac disease (P<0.05), and their American society of Anesthesiologist class was higher (P<0.001). In the perioperative and postoperative complication, older group showed no differences in most of the operation-related complication rates, but gastrointestinal complication rate. Also, mesh erosion rate was not found to be significantly different between the two groups at the last visit.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Older women undergoing laparotomic SCP have similar perioperative and postoperative morbidities as younger women, suggesting surgeons can counsel older and younger women similarly in terms of operative risks.
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors: Sumin
authors: S
authors: Oh
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors: So Hyun
authors: SH
authors: Shin
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors: Ji Young
authors: JY
authors: Kim
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: Lee
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
authors: Myung Jae
authors: MJ
authors: Jeon
keywords: Age; Morbidity; Sacrocolpopexy
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