Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?
From: Efrain Ramirez (eramirezt@coqui.net)
Mon Aug 30 22:17:30 2004
I guess I'll wait for intelligent nanorobots to the trick - but for now
I'll take out the diseased organ ..
>At Mon, 30 Aug 2004, art fougner, md wrote:
>
>Right Efrain. just as case reports of lupron being administered for
>cases which ultimately proved to be leiomyosarcoma, it's only a matter
>of time before the same occurs with UAE. to date, there is no imaging
>modality which uniformly differentiates between myoma and sarcoma.
>
>art
>
>At Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Efrain Ramirez wrote:
>>
>>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:
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>
>>--
>>"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)
>>
>--
>art fougner, md
>ich bin ein New Yorker
>
--
"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)
|
|
