TABLE 1.

Industry-reported textile properties of tested mesh before loading

Mesh	Vendor	Pore size, mm	Porosity, %
Gynemesh	Ethicon	2.5	62
Restorelle	Coloplast	1.8	78
Alyte Vaginal	Bard	2.8	75
Alyte Stem	Bard	2.0	50
UltraProa	Ethicon	3.8	68

For competitive comparisons, manufacturers typically report pore size and porosity with the mesh in an unloaded state. In addition, it should be noted that manufacturers report a single value for pore size, typically the largest diameter in the mesh structure, although all prolapse meshes contain a wide range of pore sizes.

^aUltraPro (aka Artisyn) measurements made after absorbable component is absorbed.