This can happen because the muscles are damaged or weak. A person can either use a pessary to treat pelvic organ prolapse or have surgery. This article looks at the different types of pessary ...

Placement. Your provider will insert the pessary and may use lubricant or lidocaine around your vaginal opening to be sure the process doesn't cause pain. Test for function. To be sure your ...

A pessary is a device that manages pelvic organ prolapse without surgery. You insert the device into your vagina, where it supports your uterus, vagina, bladder, or rectum. Some types of pessaries ...

(HealthDay)—For women with symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (POP), use of vaginal pessary in addition to pelvic floor exercises is associated with improvements in prolapse symptoms and quality ...

Credit: Getty Images. Findings showed the device may increase the risk of fetal or neonatal/infant death. Among women with a short cervix, the use of a cervical pessary did not result in a ...

The study is the first randomized trial to examine the use of a pessary to prevent premature birth. Elena Carreras, from the Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, coordinator of ...

Question: I started to use Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in January this year to help relieve my menopausal symptoms and my doctor also prescribed an oestrogen pessary called Vagifem.