Pirita Varpe

ORCID: 0000-0001-7634-8722 · 5 papers in corpus
other 2025
BMC women's health ·doi:10.1186/s12905-025-03699-y

BACKGROUND: Sacral neuromodulation (SNM) is an established therapy in urology and gastroenterological surgery for treatment of overactive bladder symptoms, urge urinary incontinence or fecal incontinence. SNM has also been used with good re…

observational 2024
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4088264/v1

Abstract Background Sacral neuromodulation (SNM) is an established therapy in urology and gastroenterological surgery for treatment of overactive bladder symptoms, urge urinary incontinence or fecal incontinence. SNM has also been used wi…

nonrandomized-trial 2023
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.14690

INTRODUCTION: Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) affects over one fifth of women worldwide, and endometriosis is one of the most common causes. In the present study, we examined whether sacral neuromodulation (SNM) is effective in the treatment of r…

observational 2020
Techniques in coloproctology ·doi:10.1007/s10151-020-02148-2

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to report the outcomes of sacral neuromodulation (SNM) in chronic pelvic pain (CPP) patients in the Finnish national cohort. METHODS: This was a register-based retrospective study, involving all the ce…

case-report 2017
Case reports in neurological medicine ·doi:10.1155/2017/2197831

Excision of all endometriotic lesions is the method of choice in the treatment of severe endometriosis resistant to medical therapy. The infiltrating nature of the disease as well as extensive surgery may, however, cause chronic pain that c…