A life-saving puncture

Today, no one is surprised that after complex gynecological surgeries, patients stop taking painkillers and start walking within a day, are discharged within three days, and a year later the scar from the surgery can only be seen with a magnifying glass. All this became possible after surgical interventions began to be performed using laparoscopy. According to experts, laparoscopy can replace up to 90% of all abdominal surgeries on the female part. Laparoscopically, it is possible to remove a benign ovarian tumor (cyst), dissect adhesions, ligate the fallopian tubes during sterilization, restore their patency in tubal infertility, deal with inflammatory and purulent processes, remove the uterus in case of fibroadenoma, eliminate ectopic pregnancy and torsion of the appendages, diagnose and treat endometriosis. Laparoscopy not only makes gynecological surgeries less painful and traumatic. It also helps preserve organs that simply cannot be saved during abdominal surgery. For example, previously, women diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy (the development of the fetus outside the uterus) were operated on only after a fallopian tube had ruptured. The results of such treatment were disappointing: surgeons had to remove the fallopian tube itself along with the fertilized egg. After a second such operation, the woman could no longer become pregnant naturally. With the help of laparoscopy, a doctor can detect an ectopic pregnancy at the earliest stages and save a vital organ by removing the stray egg in time. Another terrible disease, adnexal torsion, which most often occurs in young girls and women, was previously treated by removing the twisted organs. Modern laparoscopy has made it possible to accurately assess the cause and scale of the problem and, in most cases, save the patient from inevitable infertility. Without laparoscopy, no one would have known about endometriosis, the proliferation of cells lining the uterus in the wrong place. Women were debilitated by pain, they could not conceive a child, and doctors could only shrug their shoulders: everything was normal during examination and ultrasound. And only endoscopists, having inserted an optical instrument into the abdominal cavity, were able to see the cause of the problems. Laparoscopy can not only detect endometriosis, but also cure it. In some cases, areas of "foreign" tissue are excised, in others, they are burned with an electric current or laser. After laparoscopic surgery, patients have the opportunity to become pregnant. Source www.newizv.ru