Biomechanical Mapping of the Female Pelvic Floor explores new technological advances in women's healthcare intended to improve pelvic floor characterization, diagnosis and prediction of treatment outcomes. The book describes biomechanical approaches and clinical examples to demonstrate how one can evaluate the changes in the pelvic floor to gain a better understanding of an individual patient's pelvic floor dysfunctions, such as prolapse, incontinence, chronic pelvic pain, and even conditions leading to spontaneous preterm delivery and predicting maternal birth trauma.
This book is a valuable resource for researchers focused on gynecology, urogynecology or obstetrics, clinicians, graduate students and biomedical scientists and bioengineers who need to better understand the technological advances in biomechanical characterization and how they can be used not only for diagnosis but also for monitoring several OBGYN-related conditions.
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This book is a valuable resource for researchers focused on gynecology, urogynecology or obstetrics, clinicians, graduate students and biomedical scientists and bioengineers who need to better understand the technological advances in biomechanical characterization and how they can be used not only for diagnosis but also for monitoring several OBGYN-related conditions.
Please Note: This is an On Demand product, delivery may take up to 11 working days after payment has been received.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Definitions and interpretation of biomechanical mapping
3. Retrospective history and medical applications
4. Biomechanical mapping with ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging
5. Biomechanical mapping with force and pressure measurements
6. Pelvic floor characterization with vaginal tactile imaging
7. Biomechanical integrity score
8. Preoperative assessment and prediction of pelvic prolapse surgery outcome
9. Changes of pelvic floor integrity after hysterectomy
10. Vaginal conditions after laser treatment
11. Pelvic floor characterization with vaginal tactile ultrasound image fusion
12. Cervical biomechanical deficiency and spontaneous preterm delivery
13. Antepartum tactile imaging in prediction of maternal birth trauma
14. Cervical Biomechanical Deficiency and Spontaneous Preterm Delivery
15. Conclusions and future directions
Authors
Vladimir Egorov CEO of Advanced Tactile Imaging, Inc, USA. Vladimir Egorov, PhD, is the CEO of Advanced Tactile Imaging, a medical device developer and manufacturer whose primary area of focus is women's healthcare including pelvic organ prolapse, stress urinary incontinence, vaginal tissue atrophy, overactive bladder, spontaneous preterm delivery, and maternal birth trauma. Dr. Egorov participated in 13 R&D projects-funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of Defense (DoD)-related to medical devices from a feasibility study to production in FDA-audited environment and commercialization. He led the six of them as a Principal Investigator. His team developed a series of innovative devices for biomechanical charaterization of the female pelvic floor.Dr. Egorov received his MS in Biophysics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, USSR, and was granted a PhD in Biology, working at the Institute of Basic Biological Problems, Pushchino. He has over 30 years of experience in hardware, software, algorithm development and statistical data analysis, regulatory compliance and approvals (FDA, CE, TGA), and clinical studies (feasibility, development, validation). Dr. Egorov has 81 peer-reviewed research publications (78 journals and 3 book chapters) related to different aspects of academic research, instrumentation, and clinical applications. He coauthored 29 issued patents, most of them disclosing the specific details of tactile imaging technology in medical applications.
