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Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary? From: Charlie Chambers (cchamber@gorge.net) Sun Aug 29 16:40:31 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?" Previous message: Larry Glazerman: "Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?" In reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?" Boy, I'd really like to meet the 75% that are good candidates for the procedure. Not the patients that I have that with an 18 week size uterus that you can't tell where the myoma ends and the uterus begins. I also offer my patients all the choices. I run into much more frequently patients that are irritated about all the hurdles they have to clear because they've already made up their minds that they just want it out. ************************************************************************ **** Charlie Chambers Hood River, OR USA cchamber@alumni.rice.edu "...not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant-and not nearly so much fun." John Voelker ************************************************************************ ***** On Aug 29, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote: > I like the description from the ABC article: > > She was mildly sedated for the procedure. Tiny pellets were injected > into a catheter inserted near the groin that is guided up to the > uterine > arteries. The pellets stop the flow of blood to the fibroid tumors, > causing them to shrink and die. The pellets are made out of a plastic > similar to contact lenses and stay in the artery permanently. > > The outcome statistics for uterine fibroid embolization are impressive > — > more than 90 percent symptom relief, with complications in only 2 > percent to 5 percent of cases. Radiologists now routinely avoid the > arteries near the cervix and vagina — which seems to minimize the risk > of sexual dysfunction. > > Another advance has been the use of pain medication for the severe > cramping that sometimes starts during the procedure. It can often last > several days but can be well controlled with medication. > > How about the "Radiologists now routinely avoid the arteries near the > cervix and vagina — which seems to minimize the risk of sexual > dysfunction." > > The only uterine arteries ARE near the cervix and vagina! So what the > ** > are they talking about?! > > OK folks - who thinks 75% of those having hysts should have UAE intead? > > Joanne > > At Sat, 28 Aug 2004, rmodugno@aol.com wrote: >> >> You have received this ABCNEWS.com mail from: >> >> Robert Modugno MD >> rmodugno@aol.com >> >> I thought you might find this story interesting. >> >> Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary? >> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/Living/ >> fibroid_hysterectomies_040827-1.html > > -- > Joanne Bulley, MD > Keene, NH, USA > > "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, > signifies > in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, > those who > are cold and are not clothed." > > President Dwight D. Eisenhower > April 16, 1953 > Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?" Previous message: Larry Glazerman: "Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?" In reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?" Next in thread: Efrain Ramirez: "Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?"

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