Interventional medicine is a new treatment technology developed in recent years with the continuous progress of imaging technology, and is a new medical discipline other than medicine and surgery. Some of the original untreatable diseases have a cure, some of the original treatment of painful diseases to reduce or eliminate the pain, due to the many superiority of interventional technology, the development is particularly rapid. Interventional ultrasound is an important part of interventional technology, and its safety, accuracy, effectiveness, and wide application are in the leading position in modern medicine; it is easy to operate, inexpensive, less painful, and reliable in efficacy, and is favored by people.
The injection is something people are used to, interventional ultrasound is actually “needle” technology under the guidance of ultrasound, therefore, its operation is not only highly accurate, safe and correct, and minor trauma, the skin does not leave traces after surgery. It has been proven that interventional ultrasound solves problems that cannot be solved by medical and surgical procedures, and some operations have replaced surgical means or are comparable to surgical procedures.
The Interventional Ultrasound Unit of Cangzhou Central Hospital and the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery are organized into one large department, and their joint efforts have opened up a wider world for the application of interventional ultrasound, with more obvious effects and greater importance.
Introduction to the treatment technology of interventional ultrasound
1.What to do if you have a tumor?
Up to now, we know that except for teeth and hair, all parts and organs of human body have the possibility of tumor growth. Although modern medical technology has advanced rapidly, the treatment of tumor is still a troublesome task because tumor endangers people’s health and life, and everyone is most worried about the growth of tumor. Early detection, early diagnosis and early treatment are needed to treat tumors. Early detection requires people to pay attention to health, regular medical checkups, and prevention before it happens; early diagnosis means that doctors can know as soon as possible where the tumor grows, what kind of tumor it is, and what kind of tissue it comes from, which is also called qualitative diagnosis, and then make treatment plan according to the result, and decide whether to operate or use medicine? Which type of surgery should be used? What type of medicine should be used? What is the pre-operative treatment? What is the postoperative treatment? The above can show that early diagnosis is the key to the treatment of tumor. It is difficult to solve this problem, and sometimes it is not possible to achieve it. Occasionally, it relies on surgery to take out some tissues for pathology first, and then resect them after the result comes out, which gives patients two traumas. Medical professionals struggled to find a way to solve the problem of tumor characterization with less trauma. Interventional ultrasound can solve this problem with a thin needle and ultrasound guidance, which is less traumatic, less painful and convenient to operate, and almost harmless to patients. Really: What should we do if we have tumor? Interventional ultrasound can tell you early.
2.The treatment hope for liver cancer patients
Liver cancer, commonly known as the king of cancer, shows how much people are afraid of it. First of all, liver cancer mostly develops on the basis of hepatitis B, and the distribution of hepatitis B in China is: higher in the south than in the north, and higher in the coast than inland, which is the result of our 1996 census. Cangzhou belongs to the northern coast, a high incidence area of hepatitis B and liver cancer, and we receive numerous liver cancer patients every year.
Medical personnel all over the world are making unremitting efforts to treat liver cancer, but for many years its surgical resection rate can only reach 20~25%, 75~80 liver cancer patients cannot get surgical treatment, and the efficacy of other methods cannot be satisfactory. The emergence of interventional ultrasound technology has solved this problem and given hope to patients. It uses the method of sticking needles to inject drugs into the tumor to make the tumor necrotic locally, which plays the effect of surgery, so that even inoperable tumors can be treated effectively. The operation is very easy and also greatly reduces the cost of treatment. Patients spend less money, suffer less pain, and have cured liver cancer that cannot be cut. Clinically, the treatment survival rate of small liver cancer patients has exceeded 5 years or longer, which is as good as the treatment effect at home and abroad. Really: liver cancer is not scary, interventional ultrasound treats it.
3.Do patients with cysts still need to be operated?
Cysts are annoying, not only common, but also easy to get in many organs, such as thyroid, breast, liver, pancreas, kidney, ovary, peritoneum and intestinal tract, etc. Although such cysts are not as terrible as liver cancer, traditional treatment only relies on surgery, and sometimes after treatment, that one grows again a few years later, and there is a patient who has been repeatedly treated for long cysts. One patient had three surgeries for ovarian cysts, and finally they grew out again. Nowadays, interventional ultrasound treatment is not so troublesome, as ultrasound-guided needle sclerotherapy can be done in a few days with medicine, and it is not troublesome to treat other places that are growing again, and it is less painful and less costly. One of the patients who came here with apprehension and did not expect to be cured in such a simple way, excitedly grabbed the doctor’s hand and said that he was cured like a dream. It’s true: when you have a cyst, you don’t have to operate, and the effect of interventional ultrasound is good.
4.Treatment that does not affect aesthetics
Everyone has the desire to be beautiful, especially women. However, thyroid diseases and breast diseases love to find women, especially cysts are very common and leave traces on the skin after surgery, which affects the beauty of women. Interventional ultrasound treatment method allows the love of beauty to be satisfied, the skin is free from the patient’s worries and the disease is treated. This is the excellent feature of the interventional ultrasound technology that not only these two parts of the hydatid tumor can be treated in this way, but also some other tumors that are suitable can be treated in this way, and the treatment is very convenient.
It is really: both cure the disease and leave no trace.
5.Another new way to treat fibroids
However, fibroids are not so terrible, in principle, they do not affect the physiological function without excessive treatment, but when they are too large, bleeding and other uncomfortable symptoms appear, or when they degenerate, then surgery is necessary. It also has a characteristic that is related to age, which is medically known as hormonal tumor, and the fibroids will shrink with menopause. According to these characteristics, fibroids in premenopausal women are safe as long as they are controlled to grow with menopause, which not only treats the fibroids, but also avoids the trauma of surgery. The effective method that can solve this problem is the interventional ultrasound technique, which hits the drug into the tumor to make it inactive and shrink, achieving the purpose of treatment and avoiding the damage of surgery later when it grows. Uterine fibroids shrink on average by 50% after treatment. However, not all fibroids are treated with this method, and some still rely on surgical removal. This approach is best for patients who are young, with fibroids less than 5cm and single or no more than 3. Really: control myoma without surgery, interventional ultrasound to help.
6, “needle” treatment prostate hyperplasia
If this phenomenon persists for a long time, it makes patients and their families suffer. Nowadays, the radical solution for treatment is surgery or electrodesiccation. The problem is that most of these patients are elderly and have other systemic diseases, so more invasive treatment is more dangerous or inappropriate for the elderly, and finding a better way to relieve the pain of these elderly patients is the goal that medical professionals are striving for. The technology of interventional ultrasound has come into play in this area. A fine needle, guided by ultrasound, is stabbed into the gland, drug is administered and it is done, touching the urethra and the bladder, and after a few days it will urinate automatically. This is a very good way to get the most out of your life. It is really: the prostate enlargement is annoying, interventional technology to row difficulties.
7.Hemangioma of the liver
The liver hemangioma is a common disease all over the world regardless of race, more women than men, accounting for the first of the benign tumor lesions of the liver, among the four types of hepatic hemangioma there is an endothelial proliferative long-term prone to malignant transformation, although not so much, but also strange and scary; another spongy easy to rupture bleeding; the other two are safer. From the above, liver hemangioma is not so safe and sound, but it feels a bit trivial to treat it, because the traditional method is surgical removal. Not all hemangiomas can be removed due to the complex structure of the liver. Many patients in the clinic can only keep regular checkups, and they are reassured and worried about whether it is a hemangioma or not whenever there is discomfort. Interventional ultrasound technology for hemangioma treatment adopts the “needle” method to cause local necrosis of hemangioma, which is less traumatic and solves not only the actual disease of the liver itself but also the heart disease, and the key is high safety, low cost and easy operation. Really: hemangioma disease is a knot of the heart, interventional ultrasound can solve.
8.Ultrasonic interventional treatment of liver abscess
Liver abscess is a dangerous and acute disease with high fever, pain and obvious symptoms. Infusion of anti-inflammatory treatment is very slow to heal, and surgical treatment is very traumatic, and the risk of treatment complications is inevitable at the same time. Interventional ultrasound treatment of liver abscess is much simpler, as a needle is inserted under the guidance of ultrasound, small abscesses are pumped out, large abscesses flow out under the root canal, and then a few days of infusion will be cured. It has both the thoroughness of surgical treatment and the safety of conservative treatment, with very few complications and minor trauma. Not only liver abscesses are treated in this way, but abscesses elsewhere can also be treated in this way, such as pelvic abscesses, abdominal abscesses, kidney abscesses, lung abscesses, chest abscesses, etc. The same efficacy will be achieved, greatly reducing the treatment time, spending less money, suffering less and getting better faster. Really: the treatment of abscess is fast, interventional ultrasound is really not bad.
9.The only effective and good way to treat polycystic liver and polycystic kidney
Polycystic kidney and polycystic liver is a hereditary disease, mostly familial. The liver and kidneys were originally substantial, while the polycystic liver, polycystic kidney parenchymal parts are turned into liquid vesicles, into water grapes, vesicles with age also continue to grow, liver, kidneys accounted for the entire abdominal cavity, digestion, breathing are affected; sometimes also infected with pus, the cystic fluid into pus, endangering the lives of patients; disease process finally liver function, kidney failure, the disease seriously affects the quality of life of patients and In addition to liver and kidney transplantation, there is no other way to treat the disease. Now, the treatment of polycystic liver and polycystic kidney can be done by the method of “zapping”, which can be repeated for many times and can be treated as long as necessary to relieve the disease and improve the quality of life, and this treatment does not affect the liver and kidney function. Even the pus-forming polycystic liver and polycystic kidney can be treated well, but in the past, doctors were helpless to do anything about this kind of cases, only reluctant anti-inflammatory treatment, the effect is extremely poor. With the emergence of interventional technology, polycystic liver and polycystic kidney have the only effective treatment means other than organ transplantation, which makes these patients full of hope and sunshine. Really: interventional ultrasound is a good technique to treat polycystic liver and kidney.
10.Microwave, radio frequency, argon helium knife
Among the advanced instruments for the treatment of tumors, microwave, radiofrequency and argon helium knife are in the leading position. Microwave and radio frequency are thermal therapy techniques, which also have a needle antenna that is inserted into the tumor and locally heated up to a temperature of about 80℃ to kill the tumor. Because, tumor cells are afraid of heat and apoptosis at 40℃, 80℃ is enough to destroy tumor; Ar-He knife is a freezing technology, also has a needle structure inserted into tumor, local temperature reaches minus 195℃, and then reverses in temperature to high temperature, one cold and one hot to kill tumor. All these techniques are recognized as advanced weapons for effective treatment of tumors, with a wide range of treatment and reliable effect, which makes the treatment time of tumor patients shorter and less expensive. Especially some cases that cannot be removed surgically get the effect after surgery, however, the pain of trauma is greatly reduced. Not only with these many advantages, there is also a windfall: the immunity of the treated patients is enhanced, and the resistance to diseases is improved even more. However, these advanced instruments must be guided by ultrasound and other instruments, and also cannot be done without the support of interventional ultrasound technology, which is an element of the large range of interventional technology. Really: treatment of tumor is good, interventional ultrasound cannot be left.
11.The other fields involved in interventional ultrasound technology
Interventional ultrasound involves a wide range of fields, in addition to the medical and surgical content introduced above, it also involves obstetrics, family planning, infertility, cardiovascular disease, gynecology, orthopedics, neurology and surgery, hematology, pentatology and other fields, which will be introduced one by one later. Another feature of interventional ultrasound is that there is no radiological damage, which is the biggest highlight of its popularity. Interventional ultrasound is still a new thing in Cangzhou, and as time goes by, people will understand it more and more and use it to make more and better contributions to the health of people in Cangzhou. Really: Interventional ultrasound is widely used, safe and reliable to protect health.