Pudendal Nerve Fluoroscopic Guided Pulsed Radiofrequency for Treatment of Superficial Dyspareunia

South Egypt Cancer Institute

Status

Completed

Conditions

Superficial Dyspareunia

Treatments

Procedure: pudendal nerve pulsed radiofrequency

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04201041

PNB

Details and patient eligibility

About

Superficial dyspareunia represents a major health problem especially for the newly wed couples. Pulsed radiofrequency for pudendal nerve is a non-neurolytic neuromodulatory method that is effective in relief of this type of pain. Objectives: to evaluate the efficacy of bilateral pudendal nerve fluoroscopic guided pulsed radiofrequency in treatment of intractable non-organic dyspareunia, and compare between trans-gluteal and transvaginal approaches regarding patient comfort and satisfaction.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

16 to 46 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

women aged between 16 and 46 years and from a near vicinity to our facility to make her available for follow-up

Exclusion criteria

We had excluded women with any abnormality in the transvaginal US guided imagining, or those with any evidence of local gynecological abnormalities on examination. Meanwhile, we had excluded those women with infection at site of injection, coagulopathy or other bleeding diathesis, pre-existing neurologic deficit in the targeted region, those with history of chronic opioid use and women who refused to participate in the study