[Posterior genital prolapse following the Burch method of colposuspension]

The aim of this paper was to know the prevalence of genital prolapse after the Burch procedure. Also to intend knowing if the associate surgery for vaginal relaxation used in our Urogynecologic Service is working well. Seventy four patients with more than six months after the Burch procedure were addressed from October 1995 to January 1996. Special attention was put to detect pelvis floor defects in specific vaginal sites (urethra, bladder, vaginal ápex, cul de sac and distal posterior wall). The prevalence of urethrocele was 2.7%, cystocele 50.6%, almost of all were mild. None severe cystocele was detected. Cervical prolapse was present in 21.3%, vault prolapse in 9.3% and enterocele 41.9%. The posterior colporraphy seems to be useful to prevent the vault prolapse and the enterocele. On the contrary the Moschowitz procedure seems not to be useful in this aspect. In order to diminish the prevalence of genital prolapse posterior to Burch procedure it would be better to improve the preoperative vaginal examination in order to do segmentary prolapse diagnosis and also to stablish an individualized surgical treatment of them.