{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,9]],"date-time":"2026-05-09T11:09:44Z","timestamp":1778324984529,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences","issue":"5","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Pak J Med Sci"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Objective: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a common condition. With increasing lifespan and emphasis on quality of life worldwide, older women with POP may prefer surgical treatment, including colpocleisis. We reviewed the outcome of POP in a case series of colpocleisis.\r\nMethods: This study was conducted between 2006 and 2011. Patients had confirmed POP on examination and underwent partial and total colpocleisis. We compared patients\u2019 demographic characteristics, POP severity and surgical outcomes.\r\nResults: In total, 55 patients were included. The patients were aged 78.9 + 6.7 years and had body mass index (BMI) of 26.9 \u00b1 4.2. Among the total, 44 (80%) and 11 patients (20%) underwent partial and total colpocleisis respectively. Patients undergoing partial colpocleisis had procidentia less often than those undergoing total colpocleisis (18% v 64%, p=0.01). Mean blood loss and operative time were 157.6 ml \u00b1 119.0 and 65.1 \u00b1 20.3 minutes respectively. Partial colpocleisis had less blood loss (mean 135.7 v 227.2 ml, p=0.02) and shorter operative time (mean 62.6 v 75.0 min, p=0.18).\r\nConclusion: Partial compared to total colpocleisis was associated with shorter operative time and less blood loss. Colpocleisis is a suitable surgical treatment for POP in elderly women who do not wish to preserve the vagina for sexual intercourse.\r\ndoi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.39.5.7600\r\nHow to cite this: Elbiss HM, Al-Baghdadi O. Surgical treatment of pelvic organ prolapse using colpocleisis: A case series. Pak J Med Sci. 2023;39(5):1394-1398. doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.39.5.7600\r\nThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.12669\/pjms.39.5.7600","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,10]],"date-time":"2023-07-10T05:43:05Z","timestamp":1688967785000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Surgical treatment of pelvic organ prolapse using colpocleisis: A case series"],"prefix":"10.12669","volume":"39","author":[{"given":"Hassan","family":"Elbiss","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Omaema","family":"Al-Baghdadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"4935","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,2]]},"container-title":["Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/7600\/1821","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/download\/7600\/1821","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,9]],"date-time":"2026-05-09T10:44:54Z","timestamp":1778323494000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/pjms.org.pk\/index.php\/pjms\/article\/view\/7600"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,2]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"5","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,7,8]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12669\/pjms.39.5.7600","relation":{},"ISSN":["1681-715X","1682-024X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1681-715X","type":"electronic"},{"value":"1682-024X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,2]]}}}