If you or a family member had a minimally -
invasive hysterectomy or myomectomy aided by power morcellation and were later diagnosed with advanced uterine cancer, the New York defective device lawyers at Banville Law are here to help you gain justice.
The researchers identified 203,520 women, including 117,653 women (58 percent) who underwent minimally
invasive hysterectomy.
Among women who underwent minimally
invasive hysterectomy, power morcellation was used in 13.5 percent in Q1 2013, peaked at 13.7 percent by Q4 2013, and declined to 2.8 percent by Q1 2015.
Complications declined for abdominal hysterectomy, attributable to a decline in intraoperative complications, but were stable for minimally
invasive hysterectomy and vaginal hysterectomy.
The use of an electric surgical device to perform a minimally
invasive hysterectomy is what Frank Interlichia of Brighton, NY - and others in similar cases across the country - claim caused the death of their loved ones.
Not exact matches
The Johns Hopkins team analyzed the data to identify how many minimally
invasive surgery procedures hospitals could be performing based on standard qualifications for four different operations: appendectomy, colectomy and
hysterectomy, all procedures for which minimally
invasive surgery has shown significant advantages over open procedures, and lung lobectomy, an operation for which the jury is still out on the risks versus benefits.
Surgical robots have performed fairly well in the operating theater in the past decade, helping physicians perform
hysterectomies, prostate removals and other complex, yet minimally
invasive surgeries.
The last 15 years have seen a rise in the use of minimally
invasive laparoscopy to perform
hysterectomy, enabled by the use of power morcellators, which break uterine fibroids into small pieces to be removed via tiny laparoscopic incisions.
Case in point: Around 60 percent of
hysterectomies are done for fibroids or endometriosis, yet less
invasive treatments exist.