Table 1.
Study design and demographic data
| Study | Design | Brief Description | Robotic N |
N of pts w/ 6 month data |
Lost to f/u (no anatomic data >6mos) |
Mean f/u (months) |
Mean age (years) |
Mean BMI (kg/m2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benson 2010 | retrospective | Non-comparative | 33 (21 RALS, 12 SRALS) | 33 | 0 | 38.4 RALS, 20.7 SRALS | 65 RALS / 59 SRALS | NR |
| Chan 2011 | retrospective | comparative LSC vs RSC | 16 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 67.4 (SD 9.3) | NR |
| Geller 2011 | prospective | Non-comparative | 25 | 15 | 10 | 14.8 (SD 3.8) | 60.1 (SD 10.1) | 29.5 (SD 5.7) |
| Geller 2012 | retrospective | comparative ASC vs RSC | 23 | 23 | 0 | 44.2 (SD 6.4) | 61.7 (SD 10.7) | 25.4 (SD 3.9) |
| Matthews 2012 | prospective | Non-comparative | 85 | 31 | 54 | 6 month f/u=31; 6wk f/u=83 | 59 (SD 8.85) | 27.6 (SD 4.42) |
| Moreno-Sierra 2011 | prospective | Non-comparative | 31 | 31 | NR | 24.5 (range 16–33) | 65.2 (range 50–81) | NR |
| Mourik 2012 | prospective | Non-comparative | 50 | 42 | 8 | 16b (range 8–29) | 57.7 (range 36–77) | 25.8 (range 20.3–35.2) |
| Paraiso 2011 | RCT | comparative LSC vs RSC | 35 | 28 | 7 | 26/39 w/ 12 month data | 61.0 (SD 9.0) | 29 (SD 5) |
| Seror 2011 | prospective | comparative LSC vs RSC | 20 | 20 | 0 | 15 (range 10–36) | 60 (SD 11.5) | 24.7 (SD 3.5) |
| Shariati 2008 | retrospective | Non-comparative | 77 | 62 | 15 | 7 (range 0–12) | 61.3 (SD 9.9) | 26.1 (SD 3.9) |
| Shimko 2011 | retrospective | Non-comparative | 40 | 40 | 0 | 59 (range 36–84) | 67 (range 43–83) | NR |
| Shveiky 2010 | retrospective | comparative VSC with mesh vs RSC | 17 | 17 | 0 | 12.3b (range 3.2–21.2) | 55.8b (SE 9.8) | 25.4b (SE 2.6) |
| Siddiqui 2012 | retrospective | comparative ASC vs RSC | 125 | 70 | 55 | 18.3 (SD 6.7) | 59.5 (SD 9.8) | 26.6 (SD 5.7) |
| Pooled estimates | 577 | 427 | 150 | 26.9±17.3a | 61.1±2.3a | 26.8±1.7a |
a
– Weighted mean averages and weighted standard deviation,
b
- median
AR anterior repair, NR not recorded, PR posterior repair, RAH robotic total hysterectomy, RALS Robot assisted laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy, RSCH Robotic Supracervical Hysterectomy, SD standard deviation, SE standard error, SSF sacrospinous ligament fixation, SRALS Supracervical Robot assisted laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy, TVM total vaginal mesh, VSC vaginal colpopexy