Long-term surgical outcomes of vaginal sacrospinous ligament fixation in women with pelvic organ prolapse.

Abstract Few studies have demonstrated the effects of the sacrospinous ligament fixation (SLF) in the long-term period. Aim of the study was to evaluate the short- and long-term outcomes of SLF. This was a longitudinal cohort study. Fifty-one patients who had undergone SLF were evaluated postoperatively at 1 and 7 years. The characteristics of patients, intra- and postoperative complications, length of hospital stay period, short and long-term outcomes of the surgeries were recorded. Objective success was evaluated by vaginal and POP-Q examination at 1 and 7 years postoperatively. Out of 51 patients, 46 (90.19%) patients underwent vaginal hysterectomy, 36 (70.58%) patients anterior colporrhaphy, 31 (60.78%) patients posterior colporrhaphy and 11 (21.56%) patients transobturator tape concomitantly with SLF. The differences of Aa, Ba, Ap, Bp and total vaginal length (TVL) scores between preoperative, postoperative at 1 and 7 years were statistically significant (P