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Article: Combined approach helps in pelvic floor defects: task force establishes center to coordinate studies and create a patient database.(Women's Health)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- March 1, 2005
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WASHINGTON -- Brooke Gurland, M.D., realized that, despite her training as a colorectal surgeon, she didn't have a complete perspective on pelvic floor dysfunction.
Fellows in colorectal surgery "weren't even trained to know the anatomy of the other organs, much less how to work with other pelvic specialists in the hospital system," said Dr. Gurland, a colorectal surgeon at Maimonides Hospital in New York. A multidisciplinary approach to women's pelvic floor disorders is important, because multiple pelvic floor defects often exist in the absence of patient complaints, she said at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.
Older women ...