Magnetic Resonance Guided Ultrasound Focused Therapy for Uterine Fibroids

  The magnetic wave treatment process takes about 2-3 hours of treatment, and its treatment process is relatively long. This article briefly introduces the treatment process so that patients can have an understanding of the treatment process before starting treatment and avoid unnecessary problems during the treatment process.  The entire treatment process can be divided into 4 steps, which are: Treatment preparation and planning process Test treatment Real treatment Treatment outcome evaluation The treatment preparation and planning phase takes about 30-40 minutes, starting with the treatment preparation, which involves ensuring that the patient has established intravenous access, bladder and bowel preparation, etc. (The purpose of this is to ensure that the uterus is in an optimal position for treatment, and to push the uterus in front of the This is done to ensure that the uterus is in an optimal position for treatment and to provide the necessary ultrasound access by pushing the bowel out of the way), followed by an MRI scan to ensure that the patient is suitable for treatment based on the images. Based on the patient’s scan, the doctor also determines the treatment area and sets the ultrasound avoidance zone to ensure that there are no organs or tissues on the ultrasound pathway that could cause complications (e.g., bowel, scar, bone, etc.). Please note that the patient is not allowed to move during the subsequent treatment, and if he/she does, the treatment plan must be redone, making the entire treatment process prolonged, so the patient can communicate with the physician in a timely manner if needed during the treatment, but must not move. Secondly, the patient’s intestines are peristaltic during the treatment process, so if the treatment takes too long, the treatment may need to be rescheduled due to intestinal peristalsis, resulting in a long overall treatment time, which is the reason why treatment for oversized fibroids is not performed.  Test treatment, this process is based on the treatment plan we first use a lower energy for ultrasound focus localization analysis, because the human tissue composition varies from person to person, so each person’s internal focus and ultrasound energy response is different, this time is short, after the test treatment found the appropriate focus mode and supply energy can be increased energy for formal treatment.  After the formal treatment starts, due to the increase of energy, some patients will feel the possibility of local heating, and secondly some patients are more sensitive to heat treatment, so they may feel local pain. Therefore, when the patient finds heat and pain, please communicate with the operating doctor in time. If the pain is intense, please terminate the procedure in time (there is an emergency stop button in the patient’s hand, which can stop the procedure at any time), but please try to cooperate with the patient not to move during the process, and if it is within the tolerable range, please try to tolerate it.  After each treatment, an MRI scan will be performed to determine the effectiveness of the treatment and to ensure that the tumor cells in the treated area are actually killed.  Repeated test treatment, treatment process and treatment evaluation will be able to burn the myoma gradually and obtain the treatment effect. Therefore, each treatment site needs to go through this process, and the synthesis of multiple treatment sites will kill the whole tumor and achieve the treatment effect.