Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Pelvic Surgery in the Elderly

David A. Gordon, M.D., FACS Chief of Urology, Levindale Chronic Hospital & Neuro-Rehabilitation Center Director of Graduate Medical Education in Urology, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Program Chair, NeuroUrology, UroGerontology, UroRehabilitation Fellowship Assistant Clinical Professor, University of Maryland The Sandra & Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute Baltimore, MD   Mark R. Katlic, M.D., M.M.M., FACS Chairman, Department of Surgery Director, Center for Geriatric Surgery Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 2401 West Belvedere Avenue Baltimore, MD

Anatomy, Neuroanatomy and Biomechanics of the Pelvis.- Pelvic Floor Physiology: From Posterior Compartment to Perineal Body to Anterior Compartment.- Cellular and Molecular Aging.- Principles of Geriatric Surgery.- Nutritional Considerations in Pelvic Medicine & Surgery.- Microbiology of Virulence: Urinary Tract Infection versus Colonization.- Chronic Catheter Associated Complications and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection.- Physical Therapy Evaluation and Treatment of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction Including Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Dysfunction.- Multichannel Urodynamic Testing.- Anorectal Manometry.- Functional Anorectal Imaging: Radiologic Considerations and Clinical Implications.- Colonoscopy in Elderly Patients.- Treatment Options For Stress Urinary Incontinence.- The Neurogenic Bladder and Hypertonic Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction.- Biology of Pain and Pathophysiology of Pelvic Pain Syndrome.- Interstitial Cystitis: The Painful Bladder Syndrome.- Overactive Bladder (OAB) in The Elderly with Contemporary Notions on Treatment including Sacral Nerve Stimulation (SNS).- Sacral Neuromodulation in Interstitial Cystitis.- Therapeutic neural blockade.- Pelvic Organ Prolapse in the Older Woman.- Robotic Pelvic Surgery: Historical Perspective, Single Site Robotic Surgery & Robotic Sacral Colpopexy.- Genito-Urinary Fistulae: Vesicovaginal, Ureterovaginal and other Urinary Fistula.- Rectal Prolapse in the Elderly.- Fecal Incontinence.- Colorectal Interventions: Chronic Constipation.- Fecal Diversion and Ostomies.- Pelvic Hernias.- Colorectal Interventions: Rectovaginal Fistulas.- Colorectal Interventions: Benign Anorectal Disease