Female Sexual Function After Cystectomy (FSFAC)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexual Activity

Treatments: Other: Questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04592848

69HCL20_0873

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cystectomy with bladder replacement, with or without urinary diversion, is the preferred treatment option for benign pathologies responsible for neurogenic bladder or sphincter dysfunction after failure of conservative treatments.

This surgery has both the objective of preventing urological complications and improving quality of life.

We know that women are especially affected by these conditions, as demonstrated by the high prevalence of demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis in this population. Patients are often young and sexually active before the surgery.

Despite the existence of validated evaluation tools since the early nineties, there is poor data exploring effects of invasive procedures such as cystectomy on sexual activity and quality of sexual life in female patients.

Indeed, existing literature largely focuses on sexual function in male population after cystectomy for urothelial cancer.

Data on sexual function after stoma formation in women with colorectal cancer show a significant change after the surgery, partly due to body image issues. We can easily suppose that there's also an important impact of cystectomy that may affect sexual quality of life.

Thus, the objective of the study is to assess sexual function and determine factors that may influence sexual quality of life in female patients following cystectomy or urinary diversion.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female patients aged from 18 to 75 years
• With Partial or total cystectomy and/or urinary diversion and/or urinary ostomy repair operations between 01/01/2007 and 15/12/2019 at the "Lyon Sud" Hospital.
• Surgery was performed for urological disorders caused by a non-malignant disease
• Patients currently more than 6 months away from the last urological cystectomy/ urinary diversion/ urinary stoma repair surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Patients deceased
• Patients who undergone a partial cystectomy without urinary diversion for endometriosis with bladder involvement
• Patients unable to complete the questionnaires

Trial design

36 participants in 1 patient group

Population study

Description:

Female patients who undergone a cystectomy and/or urinary diversion for a non-malignant disease at "Lyon Sud" Hospital between January 2007 and December 2019.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires