Anterior vaginal prolapse (cystocele)

Anterior vaginal prolapse (cystocele) care at Mayo Clinic

Your Mayo Clinic care team

Gynecologists, urologists and urogynecologists at Mayo Clinic work together to provide expert care for people of all ages who have conditions of the pelvic floor. All Mayo Clinic campuses have specialists in urology and gynecology with advanced training and subspecialty certification in urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery. These specialists see patients in the department of urology or obstetrics and gynecology.

Having all this subspecialized expertise in a single place, focused on you, means that you're not just getting one opinion — care is discussed among the team, appointments are scheduled in coordination, and highly specialized pelvic floor experts are all working together to determine what's best for you.

Advanced diagnosis and treatment

Mayo Clinic physicians are leaders in clinical research that enhances the capability to offer the most advanced treatments available for vaginal prolapse or urinary incontinence. Specialty services offered include:

• Diagnosis and treatment of pelvic organ prolapse with or without incontinence.
• Urodynamic evaluation.
• Stress urinary incontinence diagnosis and treatment.
• Urgency urinary incontinence diagnosis and treatment.
• Overactive bladder diagnosis and treatment.
• Urethral sling placement for stress urinary incontinence.
• Urethral bulking agent injection for stress urinary incontinence.
• Bladder onabotulinumtoxin A (Botox) injections for urinary incontinence.
• Neuromodulation for urinary incontinence.
• Management of mesh complications.

Expertise and rankings

• Experience. Mayo Clinic doctors care for more than 1,600 people with anterior prolapse each year. These specialists have extra training in pelvic floor conditions and, in many cases, see only people with vaginal prolapse. As a result, they have extensive expertise in treating this condition, including repairing treatments done elsewhere.
• Collaboration. Mayo Clinic doctors work together closely to diagnose and treat your conditions. It's not uncommon to have an evaluation one day and corrective surgery the next, if that's what you want. If other medical conditions are identified in an evaluation, an appointment can be quickly arranged with another doctor who specializes in that condition.
• Research. Mayo Clinic doctors are continually studying how to improve the diagnosis and treatment of anterior prolapse. You benefit from those treated before you, and your treatment contributes to knowledge for the future.

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, ranks among the Best Hospitals for gynecology in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals rankings.

Locations, travel and lodging

Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona; Jacksonville, Florida; and Rochester, Minnesota. The Mayo Clinic Health System has dozens of locations in several states.

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Costs and insurance

Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people.

In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.

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