Quantitative Evaluation of Female Pelvic Floor Muscle Biomechanics Using Ultrasound Elastography

Hu, Lixia; Li, Ling; Wang, Hong; Bi, Zuyue; Zhang, Xiao; Lu, Minhua

doi:10.1109/access.2019.2909542

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“…The main strength of this study is that it provides data about an innovative approach to investigate the elastic properties of pelvic floor muscles with a non-invasive approach that will be much more acceptable for women than other techniques using vaginal speculums or vaginal ultrasound probes 9 , 26 – 28 .…”

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Transperineal ultrasound shear-wave elastography is a reliable tool for assessment of the elastic properties of the levator ani muscle in women

Gachon

Fritel

Pierre

et al. 2021

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Our main objective was to assess the intraoperator intersession reproducibility of transperineal ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography (SWE) to measure the levator ani muscle (LAM) elastic properties. Secondary objective was to compare reproducibility when considering the mean of three consecutives measurements versus one. In this prospective study involving non-pregnant nulliparous women, two visits were planned, with a measurement of the shear modulus (SM) on the right LAM at rest, during Valsalva maneuver and maximal contraction. Assessments were done with a transperineal approach, using an AIXPLORER device with a linear SL 18–5 (5-18 MHz) probe. For each condition, 3 consecutive measures were performed at each visit. The mean of the three measures, then the first one, were considered for the reproducibility by calculating intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), and coefficient of variation (CV). Twenty women were included. Reproducibility was excellent when considering the mean of the 3 measures at rest (ICC = 0.90; CV = 15.7%) and Valsalva maneuver (ICC = 0.94; CV = 10.6%), or the first of the three measures at rest (ICC = 0.87; CV = 18.6%) and Valsalva maneuver (ICC = 0.84; CV = 19.9%). Reproducibility was fair for measurement during contraction. Transperineal ultrasound SWE is a reliable tool to investigate LAM elastic properties at rest and during Valsalva maneuver.

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Transperineal ultrasound shear-wave elastography is a reliable tool for assessment of the elastic properties of the levator ani muscle in women

Gachon

Fritel

Pierre

et al. 2021

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“…After reading the full texts of these articles, nine articles that did not include the original data and a control study was excluded. Finally, 13 articles were analyzed (21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34), and the literature screening process is shown in Figure 1. The specific details of the literature retrieval are shown in Table 1.…”

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Systematic review and meta-analysis: gray-scale ultrasound and shear wave elastography in the diagnosis of primipara pregnancy and delivery

Qu¹,

Sun²,

Chen³

et al. 2021

Ann Palliat Med

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“…For the detection of PFD, however, it is crucial to have functional information on the PF muscles. Studies that have investigated the PF muscles conclude that the biomechanics of these muscles can be an indicator of PF disorders such as POP (Silva et al 2017;Hu et al 2019). The female PF muscles provide support to the pelvic organs.…”

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3D Ultrasound Strain Imaging of Puborectalis Muscle

Das¹,

Hansen²,

Hendriks³

et al. 2021

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology

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The female pelvic floor (PF) muscles provide support to the pelvic organs. During delivery, some of these muscles have to stretch up to three times their original length to allow passage of the baby, leading frequently to damage and consequently later-life PF dysfunction (PFD). Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) imaging can be used to image these muscles and to diagnose the damage by assessing quantitative, geometric and functional information of the muscles through strain imaging. In this study we developed 3D US strain imaging of the PF muscles and explored its application to the puborectalis muscle (PRM), which is one of the major PF muscles.

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Quantitative Evaluation of Female Pelvic Floor Muscle Biomechanics Using Ultrasound Elastography

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References 25 publications

Transperineal ultrasound shear-wave elastography is a reliable tool for assessment of the elastic properties of the levator ani muscle in women

Transperineal ultrasound shear-wave elastography is a reliable tool for assessment of the elastic properties of the levator ani muscle in women

Systematic review and meta-analysis: gray-scale ultrasound and shear wave elastography in the diagnosis of primipara pregnancy and delivery

3D Ultrasound Strain Imaging of Puborectalis Muscle

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