NCT03630406

Vaginal Elasticity Assessment Before and After Vaginal Carbon Dioxide Laser Treatment.

Vaginal Elasticity Assessment Before and After Vaginal Carbon Dioxide Laser Treatment.as Measured by Vaginal Tactile Imaging.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rambam Health Care Campus · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Female patients with either stress urinary incontinence (SUI) or vaginal wall weakness and prolapse will be evaluated for vaginal elasticity using vaginal tactile imaging both before and after Carbon Dioxide laser treatment.

Detailed description

Patients will be recruited and sign a consent form. The patients included are patients with SUI or vaginal wall weakness and prolapse. Each participant undergoes 3 laser treatments 4 weeks apart. Assessment of vaginal elasticity via vaginal tactile imaging will be performed at 3 different points: * Before the first treatment session (baseline). * Before and after each treatment session. * 3 months post final treatment. Every patient will serve as her own control. Demographic, gynecologic and obstetric history will be obtained from patients' electronic files.

Conditions

• Laser Burn

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Vaginal Tactile Imaging	Vaginal Tactile Imaging

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-01
• Primary completion: 2020-04-30
• Completion: 2020-08-31
• First posted: 2018-08-14
• Last updated: 2020-09-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel