A revoluationary new treatment could save 1000's of ladies from going through major surgery for fibroids.
Benign, slow-growing tumours from the womb which affect about 40 percent of premenopausal women, fibroids may cause excessive bleeding and discomfort throughout periods, even resulting in miscarriage and infertility.
British doctors are actually using keyhole surgery and lasers to deal with the problem - permitting the individual to visit home for only a day in hospital.
The promising new technique implies that oftentimes a hysterectomy, the only real treatment presently viewed as 100 % effective to alleviate signs and symptoms, won't be needed.
Surgeons at St Mary's Hospital in West London, in which the operation continues to be developed, express it appeals to more youthful ladies who are afflicted by fibroids but still wish to have children. Throughout the operation an adaptable laser and instruments are given through several small incisions within the abdomen. Each fibroid is individually reduced through the laser to roughly half its size.
'Once the fibroids happen to be reduced, women are largely symptom free,' states Dr Wally Gedroyc, 'although they are able to sometimes re-grow in a later stage. In the event that would happen we're able to treat them utilizing the same method.' The operation takes approximately an hour or so and also the patient stays awake throughout.
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