Society guideline links: Pelvic organ prolapse

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Urinary incontinence in adults" and "Society guideline links: Incontinence surgery in women".)

International

●International Urogynecological Association (IUGA): Committee opinion on recurrent pelvic organ prolapse (2016)

●IUGA/International Continence Society (ICS): Joint report on the terminology for female pelvic organ prolapse (POP) (2016)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Guideline for the surgical management of apical pelvic organ prolapse in women (2021)

●SOGC: Transvaginal mesh procedures for pelvic organ prolapse (2017)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on pelvic floor dysfunction in females (revised 2021)

●American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS): Consensus statement – Cystoscopy at the time of prolapse repair (2018, reaffirmed 2021)

●AUGS: Best practice statement – Evaluation and counseling of patients with pelvic organ prolapse (2017, reaffirmed 2020)

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Practice bulletin on pelvic organ prolapse (2019)

●US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Statement on urogynecologic surgical mesh implants (2019)

Europe

●European Association of Urology (EAU) and the European Urogynaecological Association (EUGA): Consensus statement on the use of implanted materials for treating pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence (2017)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on pelvic floor dysfunction – Prevention and non-surgical management (2021)

●United Kingdom Continence Society (UKCS): UK clinical guideline for best practice in the use of vaginal pessaries for pelvic organ prolapse (2021)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on bilateral cervicosacropexy (CESA) or vaginosacropexy (VASA) using mesh for pelvic organ prolapse (2020)

●NICE: Guideline on urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women – Management (2019)

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and British Society of Urogynaecology (BSUG): Joint guideline on post-hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse (2015)

Australia–New Zealand

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Statement on polypropylene vaginal mesh implants for vaginal prolapse (2007, updated 2021)