Table 2.

Results of Laparoscopic Posterior Mesh Rectopexy for Rectal Prolapse.

Authors	No. of patients	Design	Morbidity (%)	Mortaility (%)	Improvement of continence (%)	Improvement of constipation (%)	New onset of constipation (%)	Recurrence No. (%)	Follow-up (month)
Darzi et al. 1995[34]	29	Prospective	10	0	NS	NS	NS	0 (0)	8*
Himpens et al. 1999[35]	37	Prospective	5	0	92	0	29	0 (0)	NS
Zittel et al. 2000[36]	29	Prospective	14	0	77	0	20	1 (4)	22#
Benoist et al. 2001[22]	14	Retrospective	14	0	100	0	44	0 (0)	47*
Dulucq et al. 2007[37]	77	Prospective	4	0	90	36	30	1 (1)	34*
Makineni et al. 2014[38]	17	Prospective	17	0	100	NS	NS	0 (0)	14*
Dyrberg et al. 2015[39]	81	Prospective	20	1	74	65	13	9 (11)	24#
Madbouly et al. 2018[40]	33	Retrospective	12	0	57	48	0	1 (3)	46*
Matsuda et al. 2019[41]	10	Retrospective	0	0	NS	NS	NS	0 (0)	25#

NS, not stated; *mean; ^# median