[Clinical characteristics of women with genital prolapse]

Clinical features of severe urogenital prolapse, were studied. Fifteen patients were included in a retrospective study between January 1990 and June 1995. The diagnosis of severe uterine prolapse (where the cervix precedes the inverted vaginal tube) was the sole inclusion criteria. Age, parity, hormonal stage, occupation, simptomatology, body mass index, and the results of histopathological examinations were evaluated. The mean age was 60 years, parity most frequently observed was more than three, 80% were postmenopausal, the body mass index was 23.5, all patients were housewifes, the symptomatology that was present in 100% of the patients was the sensation of an intravaginal foreign material. The surgical treatment performed was vaginal hysterectomy. The results of histopathological examinations were in the most inflammation. The parity and postclimaterium were the principal factors associated with the pathogenesis of uterine prolapse.