April 30th 2024
Explore how robotic surgery revolutionizes obstetric and gynecologic procedures, offering enhanced precision, reduced complications, and improved patient outcomes, while also examining challenges and future prospects in the field.
23rd Annual International Congress on the Future of Breast Cancer® East
July 19-20, 2024
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15th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies™
May 11, 2024
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Community Practice Connections™: 14th Annual International Symposium on Ovarian Cancer and Other Gynecologic Malignancies
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4th Annual International Congress on the Future of Women’s Health™
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Patient, Provider, and Caregiver Connection™: Exploring Unmet Needs In Postpartum Depression – Making the Case for Early Detection and Novel Treatments
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Identifying Health Care Inequities in Screening, Diagnosis, and Trial Access for Breast Cancer Care: Taking Action With Evidence-Based Solutions
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Poll: Will new technology bring a resurgence in enthusiasm for single port surgery?
January 5th 2022Much innovation has taken place in the field of minimally invasive gynecologic surgery in the last decade. Enthusiasm for single-port surgery has waned over the past decade, due to factors like Reimbursement issues and technical demand led to a decrease in enthusiasm, but robotics companies continue to develop new solutions.
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Radiofrequency ablation for uterine fibroids
November 16th 2021In a panel discussion at AAGL’s 50th Global Congress on MIGS, in Austin, Texas, Kimberly Kho, MD, MPH, along with Jessica Shepherd, MD, MBA, FACOG, and Craig Sobolewski, MD, discussed utilizing radiofrequency ablation for treatment of uterine fibroids.
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Robotic-assisted surgery for gynecologic procedures
November 9th 2021“Today, many of these cases are done as open surgery, including approximately 60% of all hysterectomies performed globally, despite the clear benefits of minimally invasive surgery, which includes fewer complications, a shorter hospital stay, and a faster return to normal activities,” Peron told Contemporary OB/GYN®.
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vNOTES: where does it fit in the gynecologic surgery armamentarium?
November 8th 2021The reality is that traditional laparoscopic surgery provides excellent outcomes, great surgical exposure, and the flexibility to tackle almost any clinical situation. As such it is a high bar to overcome—vNOTES is essentially single port vaginal surgery.
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Hominis surgical robot receives De Novo marketing authorization
March 23rd 2021The privately held medical device firm Memic Innovative Surgery Ltd. announced in early March that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De Novo marketing authorization for its Hominis, a robot-assisted surgical platform for use in single site, natural orifice laparoscopic-assisted transvaginal benign gynecologic procedures, including benign hysterectomy.
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First Enhanced Recovery After Surgery guideline for minimally invasive gynecologic surgery
November 23rd 2020The first Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) guideline for standardizing and optimizing perioperative care for women undergoing minimally invasive gynecologic surgery (MIGS) has been published in The Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology.
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Factors to consider for fertility surgery with endometriosis
November 9th 2020With patient-centered care being the mantra of 21st-century medicine, the decision to proceed with fertility surgery in women with endometriosis should be based on the individual patient, her reproductive expectations, her specific disease pattern, her support, family network, and available health care resources.
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Surgical anatomy of the frozen pelvis
November 4th 2020“Operating on a frozen pelvis is probably the most difficult situation a gynecologist can face within his surgical activities,” said moderator Mario Malzoni, chief of the Endoscopica Malzoni Center for Advanced Pelvic Surgery at the National Center for Endometriosis, in Avellino, Italy.
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Impact of vaginal cleansing and azithromycin on cesarean surgical site infections
October 29th 2020Principal investigator Johanna Quist-Nelson, MD, was inspired to complete the study during her training after observing how difficult it was for patients who experienced wound infections after cesarean.
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Infectious complications after massive blood loss from gynecologic laparotomy
October 19th 2020Massive intraoperative blood loss (MIBL) is strongly and independently linked to postoperative febrile morbidity following gynecologic laparotomy, according to a retrospective cohort study in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada (JOGC).
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Vulvar infection in patient with acute myeloid leukemia
This vulvar infection rarely is seen but presents an intriguing case.
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Recurrence of high-grade cervical dysplasia
September 18th 2020Women with high-grade cervical dysplasia are much less likely to have recurrence after primary conization if they undergo laser conization than a loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP), according to a 5-year follow-up study.
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