Editing Functional: Pelvic Organ Prolapse (section)

== Urinary incontinence and Pelvic Organ Prolapse ==

* '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Pelvic organ prolapse can exacerbate storage lower urinary tract symptoms</span>'''
** '''Important to identify and manage symptomatic prolapse when evaluating patients with UI'''
*** > 40% of women with SUI will have a significant cystocele
*** '''Procedures for UI [without correction of POP] can exacerbate certain types of POP'''
** '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Improvement of storage symptoms can be expected after POP surgery in a significant proportion of patients</span>'''
* '''<span style="color:#ff0000">Occult SUI is stress urinary incontinence that develops after prolapse reduction, due to urethral sphincteric incompetence that was previously masked by the presence of high-stage anterior POP.</span>'''
** '''Failure to address occult SUI at the time of surgery for POP may lead to more severely symptomatic SUI postoperatively.'''
* '''Although POP is generally considered a QoL condition with few medical sequelae, untreated prolapse can become advanced to a point when a woman can develop urinary retention from urethral compression and, rarely, renal failure from ureteral compression.'''