Depressive symptoms affect outcomes of pessary use in postmenopausal women with uterine prolapse.

CONCLUSIONS: Both the quality of life and depressive symptom scores were significantly improved after 3 months of successful pessary use. We advocate making depressive symptom screening a regular indicator for assessing the effectiveness of conservative POP treatment.
PMID: 29397780 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Climacteric - February 3, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Ai FF, Zhu L, Mao M, Zhang Y, Kang J Tags: Climacteric Source Type: research