Medical Services

Myomectomy removes fibroids from your uterus. Fibroids can keep you from having a baby. Fibroid removal restores your ability to get pregnant. At UVA, you'll find several types of fibroid myomectomy. The right procedure for you depends on the size and location of your fibroids.

Hysteroscopic Myomectomy

This option could work for you if you have small fibroids inside your uterus. We insert a slim tube - a hysteroscope - through your vagina and cervix into your uterus. We then use the tool to scrape away fibroids.

This safe, effective procedure: 

Bowel leakage or fecal incontinence is the inability to control passage of liquid or solid stool from the rectum and it affects 2-15% of all adults in the United States.

Sling procedures are surgeries that treat stress urinary incontinence symptoms. Your doctor places a piece of tissue or artificial mesh underneath the urethra. It acts as a layer of support so that the urethra is closed off when there is increased pressure in the abdomen (laughing, coughing, sneezing and exercising).

Materials commonly used include your own fascia (the tough covering around muscles), a piece of animal tissue specially treated for human use or polypropylene mesh.

Common sling procedures include:

At UVA, we first try non-surgical treatments to correct your prolapse. If your problem persists, we'll try surgical treatment.

Non-Surgical Treatments for Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Your doctor may suggest you:

Total vaginal reconstruction re-attaches your bladder and bowel hernia back into the vagina. This can be done with or without vaginal hysterectomy and/or removal of the fallopian tubes and ovaries.

This procedure may be beneficial if you have:

Learn about: Stress incontinence, urge incontinence (over-active bladder), over-flow, mixed incontinence. Causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options at UVA.

Pelvic organ prolapse occurs when one or more of the pelvic organs (bladder, uterus, vagina, and Prolapserectum) fall downward and bulge out through the opening of the vagina.rectum) fall downward and bulge out through the opening of the vagina.

Abdominal sacrocolpopexy is a procedure that uses a mesh material to support the top of the vagina to treat pelvic prolapse. This procedure can help ease chronic discomfort from prolapse/fallen vagina and difficulty with bowel movements or emptying the bladder.

A colpocleisis is a surgery to correct pelvic organ prolapse for women who don't desire future vaginal intercourse and/or are in poor general health. This procedure can ease chronic discomfort and difficulty emptying the bladder. Learn more about colpocleisis at UVA.

Cystocele repair (anterior colporrhaphy) repairs the hernia of the wall between the bladder and vagina. This procedure can ease chronic discomfort from a bulging vagina and difficulty emptying the bladder. Learn more about cystocele repair at UVA.