Re: Vag hyst after C/S ... was Positive margins.

From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@gmail.com)
Wed Oct 31 21:11:26 2007


thanks folks.

Patient A: For the woman with the LEEP (and prior C/S) I am going to do an abd hyst -- her arch is narrow and I could barely access the cervix for the LEEP.

Patient B: But I have another patient who had 2 prior C/S who seems to have good access and will start / plan for a VH knowing we could switch.

Patient A also had PMB - and when I did her LEEP (planning to do fractional D&C as well) - but she had 100% cervical stenosis. So she had a post op US with no evidence for abnormal endometrial stripe. But her first Pap after LEEP (with clean margins) is still LSIL. I say times up and that uterus has to go.

Joanne

At Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Garry E. Siegel, M.D. wrote: >
>I would also factor in the pelvic architecture, i.e. how narrow is her
>arch (did she have the first C/S for "CPD" and has a narrow arch that
>makes vaginal access a struggle).
>
>Garry
>
>At Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Douglas Krell wrote:
>>
>>Is one enough...six too many?
>>
>>No. If the patient has prev C/S, I wouldn't hesitate to do a vag hyst based
>>on the number of C/S alone, but rather on the patient's exam, degree of
>>uterovaginal prolapse, apparent severity of scarring, size of uterus
>>etc...Haven't we all seen those women who've had 5 or 6 C/S and it looks
>>like they've barely been to surgery? Then there was the woman last week...
>>2nd C/s and I couldn't even exteriorize the uterus to do the tubal.
>>
>>--
>>Douglas Krell MD
>>
>>>So a question for Y'All : any rule-of-thumb on VH - at how many C/S
>>>would you be hesitant to do a VH?
>>>
>>>JB
>>>
>--
>Garry E. Siegel, M.D.
>Private Practice
>Roswell, GA
>

--
Joanne Bulley, MD, FACOG
Solo gyn
Keene, NH USA




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