Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?
From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirezt@coqui.net)
Mon Aug 30 17:45:27 2004
I remember the laser fever -
I am always reluctant with "surgical treatments" that don't deliver
tissue diagnosis ..
> At Sun, 29 Aug 2004, 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:
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>>You have received this ABCNEWS.com mail from:
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>>Robert Modugno MD
>>rmodugno@aol.com
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>>I thought you might find this story interesting.
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>>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
>
--
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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