Laparoscopic repair of vesicovaginal fistula

Introduction In developed countries, the majority of vesicovaginal fistulas develop after gynaecologic surgery, with abdominal hysterectomy accounting for 90% of cases. Several techniques are available for repairing the fistulas. Abdominal approaches give good results even for difficult posterior located fistulas, but are associated with increased morbidity compared with the transvaginal approach. We performed a laparoscopic repair to minimize the surgical morbidity of the transabdominal approach.