Hysterectomy

New Surgical Technique has Dangerous Side Affects Over half a million women will undergo hysterectomies this year [according to whom?]. Many of these surgeries are performed to remove fibroids, as well. These benign growths in the uterus typically cause pain, bleeding, and other symptoms. There are several techniques used by medical professionals to perform a hysterectomy and to remove fibroid tumors, but one – the power morcellator - has raised serious cause for concern. The Power Morcellator

affects almost 70% of women who are in the age of 50. And as they wait for their proper treatment, the fibroids are growing outside. Today’s most common procedure used for removing the tumor is Hysterectomy but leaves the women without a uterus meaning she won’t be able to have children in the future. Hysterectomy not only requires you to lose a vital part of your womanhood but is also known to have some post procedure chronic side effects such as changes in hormonal balance, and heart problems. INSIGHTEC

The increased weight can be considered as an additional source of stress for the body, where the respiratory, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal systems would need to provide extra effort to maintain normal function. Under these circumstances, an additional stress may result in malfunction. Similarly, surgery, whatever the type, is considered an extra stress for the body. So performing surgery under suboptimal conditions may interfere with postoperative healing and could result in surgical

Total Hysterectomy It is an operation to remove the uterus. Most hysterectomies are performed to treat conditions such as fibroids, heavy bleeding, endometriosis, adenomyosis, uterine prolapse, and cancer. This may cause depression to some individuals (Vomvolaki et al., 2006). Depression Depression is a mood affective disorder. It could lead to impaired cognitive function and affects the person’s thoughts, behaviour, sleeping habit, and appetite. Counselling, psychotherapy, and antidepressant medication

the nurse told me to get dress and wait for the doctor. He finally came in to see me, He informed me that I had fibroid tumors gave me two choices, the first choice was to live with pain the rest of my life. The second choice was to get a total hysterectomy, “you don’t have to choose right now. You can make an appointment for next Wednesday and we will go from there. All I could do was cry on my way home. I cried so hard I couldn’t drive any further so I pulled over to get myself

Uterine Fibroids And Hysterectomy - The Good, Bad And Ugly By Terry Robbins | Submitted On March 07, 2013 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Google+ 1 Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon Share this article on Delicious Share this article on Digg Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Uterine fibroids and hysterectomies are a hotly debated topic

Medicine, over the past few years, has advanced and improved the quality of life of many people’s lives, but because of that, there is now a limit on how far medicine will progress in the future.     My mother, Carrie, recently had to undergo a hysterectomy, and was supposed to receive this surgery before my younger sister had been born in July of 2007. This is a surgical procedure in which a woman’s uterus is removed and are ordinarily performed by a Gynecologist. My mother only has two small scars

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and this innovation is accredited to the Da Vinci Surgery System. [1] There has been a rapid rise in the trend of Robot assisted surgeries, specifically in the area of hysterectomies. A rise from 0.5% to 9.5% of all Robot assisted surgeries occurred between 2007 and 2010. [2] Currently people prefer robot assisted hysterectomies to

The primary outcome of interest was the suturing time. The secondary outcomes were total operative time, suturing difficulty, intraoperative blood loss, perioperative complications and the impact of surgery on ovarian reserve. Statistical analysis Statistical calculations were performed using Microsoft Excel 2010 (Microsoft Corporation, NY, USA) and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) version 15 for Microsoft Windows. Student’s t and χ2 tests were used