A rare case report - Urosepsis as a result of a neglected and forgotten pessary for 10 years

A pessary is a silicone ring placed on the vagina that can improve urinary incontinence. This study reports an 83-year-old patient with a pessary discovered inside her vagina after a prior urinary incontinence treatment. The prolonged presence of the pessary in the patient's body led to a compl...

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Autores principales: Maloku, Halit, Maloku, Roena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Functional Urology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123510
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2023.102394
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description A pessary is a silicone ring placed on the vagina that can improve urinary incontinence. This study reports an 83-year-old patient with a pessary discovered inside her vagina after a prior urinary incontinence treatment. The prolonged presence of the pessary in the patient's body led to a complication called urosepsis. The presence of the pessary inside the patient's vagina for an extended period was not detected by the doctor who performed the gynecological checks, nor by the patient who had forgotten about it. The pessary remained inside her for 10 years until it was discovered accidently during a hysterectomy.
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spelling pubmed-101307512023-04-27 A rare case report - Urosepsis as a result of a neglected and forgotten pessary for 10 years Maloku, Halit Maloku, Roena Urol Case Rep Functional Urology A pessary is a silicone ring placed on the vagina that can improve urinary incontinence. This study reports an 83-year-old patient with a pessary discovered inside her vagina after a prior urinary incontinence treatment. The prolonged presence of the pessary in the patient's body led to a complication called urosepsis. The presence of the pessary inside the patient's vagina for an extended period was not detected by the doctor who performed the gynecological checks, nor by the patient who had forgotten about it. The pessary remained inside her for 10 years until it was discovered accidently during a hysterectomy. Elsevier 2023-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10130751/ /pubmed/37123510 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2023.102394 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130751/
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