Common to almost a quarter of the adult women population in the United States, there are still many who are
confused about bladder prolapse. The bladder is a hollow organ belonging to the pelvic region. It holds urine until it is voluntarily excreted. Together with other pelvic organs such as the urethra, uterus, and rectum, the bladder is kept in position through the connective tissues supporting the vaginal wall. This network of connective tissues envelops the walls of the vagina. In older women, these tissues lose its elasticity causing any of the pelvic organs to shift out of place. This condition is named pelvic organ prolapse.
In bladder prolapse, the bladder descends into the front wall of the vagina causing symptoms like the protrusion of vagina tissues out of the vagina, the development of pelvic pain, dyspareunia, and pain on the lower back, infections, stress incontinence, and incomplete urination.Women who have had multiple vaginal deliveries and previous hysterectomy procedures are most prone to pelvic organ prolapse. Women who have had menopause are also likely to develop this condition. During menopause, there is a lower estrogen level in a woman's body. Since estrogen helps with the production of collagen in the body, lower estrogen level also means low collagen level. When the bodys collagen level is down, pelvic tissues sag and crash.
The treatment options for this condition is limited. One of these is vaginal mesh procedure. It is known to many women as the modern treatment for Stress Urinary Incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse. But, it has been associated with harmful after effects that are hard to correct if not permanent. These adverse events include mesh erosion, pain, bleeding, recurrence of prolapse, problems with urination, pelvic organ perforation, and infections.
Because of these deadly complications associated with vaginal mesh implantation, many recipients of vaginal mesh have filed different lawsuits against mesh manufacturers all over the United States. Thousands upon thousands of vaginal mesh lawsuits are filed, and this number is sure to increase since vaginal mesh products are still marketed by mesh manufacturers. Because of the numerous vaginal mesh lawsuits filed, mesh manufacturers and recipients of defective products have both motioned the Judicial Panel to centralize these lawsuits into one federal court.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) actively reacted on these issues by providing the public with safety information on the risks posed by the use of these meshes. However, there are still many physicians practicing vaginal mesh implantation to repair prolapse of the pelvic organs: bladder, urethra, uterus, and rectum; these circumstances have resulted into cases of
vaginal mesh lawsuit throughout the United States. The most common forms of these are urethral and bladder prolapse.
