Laparoscopic rectopexy offers many of the often sick and frail patients with rectal prolapse an excellent operation, with low recurrence rates, low morbidity and rapid postoperative recovery.

But Paula believes that there are more victims out there. In 2019, she set up the Facebook group, Rectopexy Mesh Victims and Support, for other victims of Dixon, which now has over 2,200 members.

For laparoscopic surgery, three or more small (5-10 mm) incisions are made in the abdomen to allow access ports to be inserted. The laparoscope and surgical instruments are inserted through these ...

Figure 5. Laparoscopic Paravaginal repair3 Combined Approaches: LSC with Laparoscopic Ventral Rectopexy Combining LSC with laparoscopic ventral rectopexy (LSC + LVR) effectively addresses patients ...

A retrospective study was carried out to analyze 37 patients who underwent laparoscopic rectopexy for full-thickness rectal prolapse between October 2012 and December 2018. Out of these, 10 patients ...

The video case study combines a laparoscopic resection rectopexy (RRP) with a mesh sacrocolpopexy (SCP) in an interdisciplinary surgical approach. In this video an 86-year-old woman with ODS and POP, ...

The Medical Superintendent of Maxxlyfe Hospital, Dr Viney Kumar highlighted the Hospital’s commitment to advanced laparoscopic surgeries such as laparoscopic nephrectomy, laparoscopic hysterectomy, ...

Srinagar, March 12: Government Medical College Baramulla has performed Laparoscopic Ventral Mesh Rectopexy.Health officials informed that a 38-year-old male presented to general surgery OPD with ...

Fifty-one patients diagnosed with complex rectocele underwent laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy, and 80 patients diagnosed with simple rectocele underwent transperineal mesh repair. Mean age was ...

Dr Dixon, considered a leading UK pelvic surgeon for years, pioneered the use of artificial mesh to lift prolapsed bowels, a technique known as laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy (LVMR), which is ...

She was allegedly in “severe pain” after earlier undergoing a revision of a procedure known as LVMR (laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy). In May 2022, North Bristol NHS Trust admitted more ...