Vaginal Elasticity Assessment Before and After Vaginal Carbon Dioxide Laser Treatment.

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Laser Burn

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Vaginal Tactile Imaging

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03630406

0022-18-RMB

Details and patient eligibility

About

Female patients with either stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or vaginal wall weakness and prolapse will be evaluated for vaginal elasticity using vaginal tactile imaging both before and after Carbon Dioxide laser treatment.

Full description

Patients will be recruited and sign a consent form. The patients included are patients with SUI or vaginal wall weakness and prolapse. Each participant undergoes 3 laser treatments 4 weeks apart.

Assessment of vaginal elasticity via vaginal tactile imaging will be performed at 3 different points:

• Before the first treatment session (baseline).
• Before and after each treatment session.
• 3 months post final treatment. Every patient will serve as her own control. Demographic, gynecologic and obstetric history will be obtained from patients' electronic files.

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any woman undergoing vaginal Carbon Dioxide laser treatment.

Exclusion criteria

• Women that are not in the age range.

Trial design

25 participants in 1 patient group

Laser treatment

Description:

Female patients with either SUI of vaginal wall weakness and prolapse refered for an attempt at laser treatment.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Vaginal Tactile Imaging