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Laparoscopic Adenomyomectomy

Intramuscular uterine islands of endometrial tissue are removed through keyhole surgery, also called adenomyomas. Essentially, adenomyosis means the presence of these growths, and leads to severe menstrual pain, heavy bleeding, and also infertility. This is useful in maintaining the minimal invasiveness of the approach to symptom management, and the uterus can be preserved unlike in open surgery.

Understanding Adenomyosis

Adenomyosis is a condition where the endometrial glands invade the myometrium. The result is that the walls of the uterus become thicker. The resulting thickness of the uterus wall leads to increased pain, heaviness of the menstrual flow, pain i the pelvic area, and in more severe cases, infertility. Those patients who show continued severe symptoms and unresponsiveness to medical treatment opt for adenomyosis surgery.

Procedure for Laparoscopic Adenomyomectomy

1. Preparation: The procedure requires a general anaesthetic that renders the patient unconscious. The abdomen can be subjected to several small incisions by taking utmost care that a laparoscope and other operating instruments can be inserted therein.
2. Removal of Adenomyoma: Generally, adenomyomas represent distinct entities that are neatly demarcated from the rest of the tissues of the uterine wall where the surgeon may try removing these without excising excess amounts of the surrounding healthy tissues.
3. Reconstruction of the Uterus: The surgeon then goes onto the reconstruction of the uterus, including the conduction and solidity of the uterus.
4. Closure: The lesions, thus are sutured or glued and the patient is shifted to the recovery room.

Advantages of Laparoscopic Adenomyomectomy

There are several significant advantages of this procedure:
• Minimally Invasive: Laparoscopic surgery involves a small incision; hence there is little pain, short hospital stay, and little scarring is noticed.
Preservation of the Uterus: The adenomyomectomy operation restores the uterus after the operation. On the other hand, hysterectomy entails the removal of the uterus in totality, which makes it a procedure suitable for women who want to retain child-bearing capabilities.
• Symptom Relief: Owing to that size it is not always that the developed adenomyomas are entirely removable the very first time. Yet the symptoms such as heavy bleeding and intense menstrual cramp are likely to decrease or most likely will be eliminated after the removal.

Recovery and Postoperative Care

Recovery from laparoscopic adenomyomectomy usually includes:
• Hospital Stay: In most of the cases like one day or minor procedures, the patients can be discharged after the day of operation or next morning.
• Pain Management: The pain which the patient will experience post-operation is usually very mild and can be managed by using generic medicines.
• Activity Limitations: The patient should not lift heavyweight and avoid vigorous activities during 4 to 40 6 weeks for better resection of the tissue.
• Follow-up: The last visit typically will involve the schedule of Follow-up during which the improvement of the patient will be noted, along with the advantages and disadvantages related to surgery.

Potential Risks and Complications

Laparoscopic adenotomy melons is mostly free of harm, but few risks are associated with it:
• Bleeding: This one of the dangers during or after the operation but it is usually minor.
• Infection: The chances of this are quite low, but infection can take place at the site of the cuts or in the body itself.
• Reappearance: Occasionally, in the future adenomyosis can recur and might need further treatments to carry out.

Conclusion

This study revealed that laparoscopic adenomyomectomy would help to treat women with bad adenomyosis who desire to at least retain their uterus. This was reported to be very beneficial due to the fact that it is less invasive; hence, patients recover faster with less pain compared to the standard surgical process. So in any case that you are experiencing such symptoms of adenomyosis and you are thinking of going for surgical treatment, it would be best to ask first your doctor’s advice about laparoscopic adenomyomectomy surgery.

endometriosis excision surgery, hysteroscopy and polyp removal, fibroid removal laparoscopic myomectomy, transobturator tape procedure recovery, uterine prolapse treatment, urinary incontinence surgery

Dr Usha Kiran Talakere FRCOG

Consultant Gynaecologist

Advanced Laparoscopic (Level 3/4) & Hysteroscopic Surgeon

vNOTES (Scarless Surgeon)