PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION AND PELVIC SURGERY IN THE ELDERLY. AN INTEGRATED APPROACH

1. Anatomy, Neuroanatomy and Biomechanics of the Pelvis
2. Pelvic Floor Physiology: From Posterior Compartment to Perineal Body to Anterior Compartment
3. Cellular and Molecular Aging
4. Principles of Geriatric Surgery
5. Nutritional Considerations in Pelvic Medicine & Surgery
6. Microbiology of Virulence: Urinary Tract Infection versus Colonization
7. Chronic Catheter Associated Complications and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
8. Physical Therapy Evaluation and Treatment of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Including Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
9. Multichannel Urodynamic Testing
10. Anorectal Manometry
11. Functional Anorectal Imaging: Radiologic Considerations and Clinical Implications
12. Colonoscopy in Elderly Patients
13. Treatment Options For Stress Urinary Incontinence
14. The Neurogenic Bladder and Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction
15. Biology of Pain and Pathophysiology of Pelvic Pain Syndrome
16. Interstitial Cystitis: The Painful Bladder Syndrome
17. Overactive Bladder (OAB) in The Elderly with Contemporary Notions on Treatment including Sacral Nerve Stimulation (SNS)
18. Sacral Neuromodulation in Interstitial Cystitis
19. Therapeutic neural blockade
20. Pelvic Organ Prolapse in the Older Woman
21. Robotic Pelvic Surgery: Historical Perspective, Single Site Robotic Surgery & Robotic Sacral Colpopexy
22. Genito-Urinary Fistulae: Vesicovaginal, Ureterovaginal and other Urinary Fistula
23. Rectal Prolapse in the Elderly
24. Fecal Incontinence
25. Colorectal Interventions: Chronic Constipation
26. Fecal Diversion and Ostomies
27. Pelvic Hernias
28. Colorectal Interventions: Rectovaginal Fistulas
29. Colorectal Interventions: Benign Anorectal Disease

This text provides a comprehensive, state of the art review of this field and will serve as a resource for urologists, colorectal surgeons, geriatricians, and gynecologists as well as researchers interested in neuromuscular phenomena in the pelvis. The book also reviews new data regarding risk factors for pelvic floor muscle dysfunction and profiles new minimally invasive surgical strategies for well known pelvic disease processes. Each chapter is chock full of data from landmark trials which have been published over the past few years and placed in context with respect to current management techniques for pelvic floor disorders. Written by experts in their field, Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Pelvic Surgery in the Elderly: An Integrated Approach provides a concise yet comprehensive summary to help guide patient management.

Features
• Written entirely by experts in their fields
• Provides a comprehensive summary to help guide patient management
• Richly detailed with illustrations and intraoperative photographs

Authors
• David A. Gordon, M.D., FACS. Chief of Urology, Levindale Chronic Hospital & Neuro-Rehabilitation Center. Director of Graduate Medical Education in Urology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
Program Chair, NeuroUrology, UroGerontology, UroRehabilitation Fellowship. Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Maryland. The Sandra & Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute. Baltimore, MD
• Mark R. Katlic, M.D., M.M.M., FACS. Chairman, Department of Surgery. Director, Center for Geriatric Surgery. Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. 2401 West Belvedere Avenue. Baltimore, MD