Article: Vaginal estrogen after Gyn. surgery advocated.(Gynecology)

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Vaginal estrogen should always be prescribed to menopausal women undergoing pelvic or urogynecologic surgery, Marvin H. Terry Grody, M.D., advised at a conference on gynecologic surgery sponsored by Omnia Education.

Estrogen therapy is essential to preserve the strength and elasticity of connective tissue and, ultimately, to extend the success of reconstructive surgery, according to Dr. Grody of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, NJ.

"The pelvis is full of estrogen receptors going all the way from the urethra to the anus and extending unquestionably into the ligament supports of the pelvis that suspend the vault [and] suspend ...

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