Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Aug 31 09:48:19 2004
Where are Martin Short and Dennis Quaid now that we need them? LOL
art
At Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Efrain Ramirez wrote:
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>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:
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>>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
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>>At Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Efrain Ramirez wrote:
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>>>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:
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>>>>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:
>>>>>
>>>>>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)
>
--
art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
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