Women Benefit from a Less Invasive Hysterectomy

New advances in an age old procedure, hysterectomy, allow women to spend lest time in the hospital, quickly return to their normal activities, and experience less pain and scarring.  Laporoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy (LSH) is now gaining the interest of gynecologists and patients alike as a less invasive option to the more traditional procedure which removes all of a women’s reproductive organs.

A hysterectomy is most often performed due to abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic pain and or non-cancerous fibroids that grow inside or on the wall of the uterus.  By having a LSH, physicians are able to perform laparoscopy, or key hole surgery, to remove the uterus through tiny incisions placed in the abdomen while leaving the cervix completely intact.

Preserving the cervix is a key advantage to having a LSH.  Advantages include reduced risk of urinary incontinence and pelvic support complications such as prolapse of other abdominal organs.  This less invasive surgery also allows women to return to their normal actual activity and gives many a feeling of wholeness that may otherwise be lost.

A LSH procedure is assisted by a laporoscope, a telescope with a magnifying video camera that is inserted through an incision in the navel to help guide the physician and allow him to see inside the abdomen.  Other dime-sized incisions are placed in the abdomen to allow the use of advanced surgical devices to remove the uterus with minimal blood loss.

With an abdominal hysterectomy, patients spend three to six days in the hospital and most go back to work after six weeks post surgery.  The LSH procedure minimizes internal tissue trauma – a significant source of discomfort for patients undergoing a hysterectomy.  Therefore, LSH patients can go home the evening or the next morning and return to their regular activities, including work, in about a week.  And because LSH uses only a few small incisions, scarring is minimal.

To learn more about this less invasive procedure, give our office a call or go to www.hysterectomyoptions.com.