Minimally invasive surgery
Minimally invasive surgery is a surgical technique pioneered by the Women's Unit . The great advantage of this type of surgery is that it allows for major procedures to be performed using a single approach, avoiding or minimizing the large incisions required by conventional or open surgery. Optical elements, television monitors, computers, and instruments specially designed for this purpose are used for this purpose.
Among the advantages of minimally invasive surgery, we can highlight that it reduces complications such as:
- post-surgical pain,
- the bleeding
- and the risk of infection.
In addition, the hospital stay and the recovery period needed to return to normal life and work will also be reduced, with better aesthetic results and smaller scars.
Laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and vaginal surgery
Approach to the abdominal cavity through a laparoscope (a long, thin tube connected to a video camera). This is introduced through a small incision around the navel. It can be used for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
Diagnostic procedures:
- Infertility study – Assessment of tubal patency “chromopertubation”.
- Diagnosis and study of pelvic pain.
- Diagnosis and staging of tumor pathology.
Therapeutic procedures:
- Family planning. Tubal ligation.
- Treatment of benign pathology:
- Solid or cystic ovarian tumors.
- Pelvic endometriosis.
- Infertility – Ovarian drilling.
- Removal of uterine fibroids.
- Removal of uterus and appendages – Laparoscopic hysterectomy.
- Treatment of malignant pathology.
- Surgical treatment of cervical, endometrial and ovarian cancer.
Hysteroscopy
Endoscopic examination of the interior of the uterus through the cervix for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, usually performed on an outpatient basis.
Diagnostic procedures:
- Diagnosis of endometrial pathology.
- Study of abnormal uterine bleeding.
- Early diagnosis and study of the spread of endometrial and cervical cancer.
- Diagnosis of congenital uterine malformations.
- Sterility study.
Surgical procedures:
- Removal of intrauterine devices.
- Removal of fibroids (myomectomy).
- Removal of uterine polyps (polypectomy).
- Treatment of uterine bleeding. Endometrial resection.
- Correction of congenital uterine malformations. Resection of uterine septa.
Other surgical techniques
- Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy without prolapse.
- Correction of genital prolapse and urinary incontinence using TVT, TOT, IVS, and mesh plasty techniques.