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Charles Nager

Charles Nager

🇺🇸 United States🏥 University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Mentored by
Stuart Stanton

Training and career​

  • Current position Professor emeritus of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, UC San Diego1
  • Medical school UC San Diego School of Medicine2
  • Residency UC San Diego (completed 1986)2
  • Fellowship Urogynecology, St. George's Hospital, London, with Stuart Stanton3
  • Leadership President, American Urogynecologic Society (2014)3

Known for​

  • VALUE trial of preoperative urodynamic testing (2012). Led a randomized trial finding office evaluation alone noninferior to added urodynamics before surgery for uncomplicated, demonstrable stress incontinence.4 Cited on WARWIKI: Stress Urinary Incontinence (Female).
  • SUPeR randomized trial of mesh hysteropexy versus hysterectomy (2019). Led a multicenter trial comparing vaginal mesh hysteropexy with hysterectomy and uterosacral suspension for uterovaginal prolapse.5

Contributions​

Nager's cited work examines urodynamic testing and incontinence severity before stress incontinence surgery. It also compares sacrospinous hysteropexy with vaginal hysterectomy for uterovaginal prolapse, including five- and ten-year outcomes and factors associated with surgical failure.678910

Cited on WARWIKI

6 publications with Charles Nager as a listed author are cited on WARWIKI, ordered by the number of pages that cite them. Papers whose author list is shortened to "et al." before this name are not included.

  1. Nager CW, Visco AG, Richter HE, et al. Sacrospinous hysteropexy with mesh vs vaginal hysterectomy for treatment of uterovaginal prolapse: 10-year results of a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Surg. 2026;161(8):764-774. doi
    Cited on: Apical Prolapse · POP Overview
  2. Richter HE, Sridhar A, Nager CW, et al. Characteristics associated with composite surgical failure over 5 years of women in a randomized trial of sacrospinous hysteropexy with graft vs vaginal hysterectomy with uterosacral ligament suspension. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2023;228(1):63.e1-63.e16. doi
    Cited on: Sacrospinous Hysteropexy
  3. Nager CW, Visco AG, Richter HE, et al. Effect of sacrospinous hysteropexy with graft vs vaginal hysterectomy with uterosacral ligament suspension on treatment failure in women with uterovaginal prolapse: 5-year results of a randomized clinical trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021;225(2):153.e1-153.e31. doi
    Cited on: Sacrospinous Hysteropexy
  4. Nager CW, Brubaker L, Litman HJ, et al. "A Randomized Trial of Urodynamic Testing before Stress-Incontinence Surgery." N Engl J Med. 2012;366(21):1987–1997. doi
    Cited on: Urodynamics
  5. Nager CW, Brubaker L, Litman HJ, et al. A randomized trial of urodynamic testing before stress-incontinence surgery. N Engl J Med. 2012;366(21):1987-97. doi
    Cited on: Stress Urinary Incontinence (Female)
  6. Nager CW, Kraus SR, Kenton K, et al. Urodynamics, the supine empty bladder stress test, and incontinence severity. Neurourol Urodyn. 2010;29(7):1306-1311. doi
    Cited on: Stress Urinary Incontinence (Female)

Footnotes​

  1. Charles Nager. UCSD Profiles. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  2. obgyn.ucsd.edu (fimbria quarterly vol 5 2020). Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  3. ICS. Dr Charles W Nager. Accessed October 2026. ↩ ↩2

  4. Nager CW, Brubaker L, Litman HJ, et al. "A Randomized Trial of Urodynamic Testing before Stress-Incontinence Surgery." N Engl J Med. 2012;366(21):1987–1997. doi:10.1056/nejmoa1113595 ↩

  5. Nager CW, Visco AG, Richter HE, et al. "Effect of Vaginal Mesh Hysteropexy vs Vaginal Hysterectomy With Uterosacral Ligament Suspension on Treatment Failure in Women With Uterovaginal Prolapse." JAMA. 2019;322(11):1054. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.12812 ↩

  6. Nager CW, Brubaker L, Litman HJ, et al. "A Randomized Trial of Urodynamic Testing before Stress-Incontinence Surgery." N Engl J Med. 2012;366(21):1987–1997. doi:[10.1056/nejmoa1113595]](https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1113595]) ↩

  7. Nager CW, Visco AG, Richter HE, et al. Sacrospinous hysteropexy with mesh vs vaginal hysterectomy for treatment of uterovaginal prolapse: 10-year results of a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Surg. 2026;161(8):764-774. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2026.2263 ↩

  8. Nager CW, Kraus SR, Kenton K, et al. Urodynamics, the supine empty bladder stress test, and incontinence severity. Neurourol Urodyn. 2010;29(7):1306-1311. doi:10.1002/nau.20836 ↩

  9. Nager CW, Visco AG, Richter HE, et al. Effect of sacrospinous hysteropexy with graft vs vaginal hysterectomy with uterosacral ligament suspension on treatment failure in women with uterovaginal prolapse: 5-year results of a randomized clinical trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021;225(2):153.e1-153.e31. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2021.03.012 ↩

  10. Richter HE, Sridhar A, Nager CW, et al. Characteristics associated with composite surgical failure over 5 years of women in a randomized trial of sacrospinous hysteropexy with graft vs vaginal hysterectomy with uterosacral ligament suspension. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2023;228(1):63.e1-63.e16. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2022.07.048 ↩