Perceived health status after mid-urethral sling revision in 287 women from the VIGI-MESH registry: A cross-sectional study.

Abstract

<h4>Objective</h4>To evaluate the health status and recovery of women after mid-urethral sling (MUS) revision in response to complications.<h4>Design</h4>Cross-sectional study using a questionnaire sent to women from a registry.<h4>Setting</h4>Twenty-two French surgical centres.<h4>Population</h4>A total of 287 women from the VIGI-MESH registry responded, having undergone MUS revision for complications.<h4>Methods</h4>Our sample of women were compared against a representative set of French women taken from the Eurostat database. Multivariate analysis was performed to identify clinical predictors for successful MUS revision. A qualitative analysis was carried out on free-text comments.<h4>Main outcome measures</h4>Health status, defined by the Minimum European Health Module, and recovery, assessed by Patient Global Impression of Improvement.<h4>Results</h4>The response rate was 76% (287/378), with 49% of the women (141/287, 95% CI 43%-55%) reporting good health status, which was 8 points lower than that expected from the comparator French set (57%, 95% CI 55%-58%). Overall, 53% (147/275, 95% CI 47%-59%) of the women reported feeling much better after MUS revision. Just over one-third (35%, 95/275, 95% CI 29%-40%) of respondents reported poor health with little or no improvement. Multivariate analysis showed that being operated on for pain at revision was associated with worse self-perceived health than being operated on for exposure (OR 0.36, 95% CI 0.14-0.95); women with pre-existing comorbidity reported a poorer health status following MUS revision (OR 0.22, 95% CI 0.13-0.38).<h4>Conclusions</h4>Our results suggest that half of the women recovered good health status after MUS revision, whereas a proportion appeared to be seriously affected by an MUS complication despite the revision.