Professor PE P Petros MB BS (Syd)                                                                

PhD (Uppsala) DS (UWA) MD (Syd)                                                             

FRCOG (Lond) FRANZCOG CU                                                         

Tel: 61 (0) 8 384 8064   Fax :   61 (0) 8 9384 0176    Email kvinno@highway1.com.au

 
 
 

 

 

 

Professor Peter Petros is a Consultant Emeritus at Royal Perth Hospital and practices in Perth as a Urogynaecologist and Reconstructive Pelvic Floor Surgeon.

 

His PhD entitled " Detrusor Instability - a Critical Analysis" was awarded by the University of Uppsala in 1993. In 1999 he was awarded Doctor of Surgery at the University of Western Australia entitled "Development of the Intravaginal Slingplasty and other ambulatory vaginal operations" .  He was awarded Doctor of Medicine by the University of Sydney in 2004 for his work entitled ”The Integral Theory”.

 

Professor Petros is the principal author of over 100 peer reviewed papers in various scientific publications, five of which were published in the Lancet. His textbook “The Female Pelvic Floor-function, dysfunction and management according to the Integral Theory”.2nd edition 2006, Springer, Heidelberg has now also been published in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, German, and Korean.

 

Professor Petros is active in research where his work encompasses 6 categories:

1) Conceptual The Integral Theory of Female Urinary Incontinence, a universal  theory of normal and abnormal bladder and bowel function. It has created an entirely new system of diagnosis and management.

2) Diagnosis  New anatomically-based diagnostic methods locate damaged structures. ITDS- software diagnostic programme.

3) New day-stay surgical  operations and methods  I am co-developer of the “tension-free’ tape (TVT), the posterior sling and the TFS minisling.  

4) Basic Science a) cadaveric, live and dynamic anatomical studies of the bladder, rectum and pelvic floor; b) biomechanics of  the urogenital tissues; c) fluid dynamics of urine flow; d) urodynamic and biophysical studies of bladder and rectum; e) Chaos  Theory in pelvic floor function.

5) New nonsurgical therapeutic methods extend the scope for treating  pelvic floor symptoms beyond stress incontinence  to bladder instability, bowel dysfunction, and pelvic pain.

6) Cross disciplinary research Joint studies with Depts of Mechanical Engineering UWA (elastometer and fluid dynamics, finite element model of pelvic floor function), Computer Science  Curtin University (”Bayesian model of Integral Theory) CIIPS, UWA School of Electrical Engineering, diagnostic programme, internet data base, School of Media Edith Cowan University (videos, animated models of pelvic floor, surgical handbook)  .