Hefei ultrasound ablation treatment for uterine fibroids

  The uterus, known as the source of life, is an organ that needs to accompany women throughout their lives. According to Professor Wang Zhibiao, PhD supervisor at Chongqing Medical University and director of the National Engineering Research Center for Ultrasound Medicine, the role of the uterus can be summarized as follows: Firstly, it is to conceive children. Secondly, it is the most important sexual organ of women and the target organ of female hormones. In addition, the uterus is the most important support organ of the female pelvic floor structure.  For the treatment of uterine fibroids, traditional medicine often uses drugs to slow down its growth and thus mobilize the anti-tumor factors in the body to slowly remove it and absorb it. Then, 165 years ago, a way to treat fibroids by removing the uterus was found. By removing the uterus, the main purpose was to address the large number of fibroids that could not regress spontaneously and that were not effectively controlled by drugs.  This technique slowly became the mainstream of human treatment for fibroids and is still the mainstream technique today, and many lives have been saved through this technique. However, the uterus, as the most important supporting organ of the female pelvic floor structure, cannot be removed casually because once it is removed, these functions are also lost.  Therefore, people have been searching for new treatments. Later, with the flourishing of lumpectomy technology, UAE, which is the treatment of transcatheter uterine artery embolization, emerged.  Then later, at the beginning of this century, a new technique emerged in the world, which does not require a hole in the stomach and is a non-invasive treatment of the body from outside the body: ultrasound non-invasive ablation therapy. With this therapy, the treatment is achieved without damage to the skin, or with very little damage, or with reversible damage.  According to the introduction, the principle of ultrasonic ablation treatment is relatively simple, similar to the principle of convex lens focus, except that the focus is not light, but ultrasound. By focusing the ultrasonic waves to produce a high capacity, it can transiently destroy the tumor and the diseased tissue. Using such a principle, the ultrasound generator is made outside the body and then focused through the inside of the tissue to the focal point, which is a small point that can reach millimeter level. The principle is not complicated, but the process of focusing in the middle is very complicated inside the tissues.  Ultrasound ablation treatment can ablate fibroids in the body from outside the body, and after the ablation, the woman’s skin is intact, and there is not even a single pinhole. It is even now possible for outpatients to walk onto the operating table, and after treatment, they can walk off the table, then rest for a while and go home. The original open surgery required seven days in the hospital, removal of stitches, and two to three months of rest at home. The lumpectomy requires at least a rest at home.  With this technique, the pain of removing the uterus and the pain of leaving scars on the skin is eliminated. But the new technology is not a panacea, it has certain indications, not all uterine fibroids are suitable for this method, therefore, patients need to be positioned by HEF before being admitted to the hospital.  Ultrasound ablation treatment, in theory, has no limitation on the size of the tumor, but it is better to detect and treat early based on the tumor itself. If there is malignancy of fibroids, the location of fibroids is not particularly good, or there is adhesion to the surrounding broad ligament, to the cervix, or even to the intestine, these are contraindications to ultrasound ablation. For large fibroids, they can be ablated at once. At the same time, if the absorption rate is slow after one ablation, the treatment can be divided into several sessions. In female patients, size is not a contraindication to ultrasound ablation.