Strengths and limitations
To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to evaluate the association between reconstructive surgery of severe uterovaginal prolapse and IAP. The second strength of the study is the homogenous population and that all procedures were standard laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy procedures in order to eliminate the effect of abdominal incision. A major limitation of the study is the small study population and lack of sample size calculation to prevents us from drawing clear conclusions. Secondly, we did not perform early postoperative IAP measurements, as pain and respiratory changes might influence the measured IAP. Another limitation is the lack of inter-observer variability since all the measurements were performed by the same experienced investigator.