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Infertile patients cannot afford to wait for treatment while their eggs get older.

Dr. Sherman Silber, Infertility Center of St. Louis, is offering video consultations for patients who need to plan now for their treatment while stay-at-home orders are in place. He is talking to and evaluating patients in their home to comply with social distancing measures.

Dr. Silber is discovering that patients actually prefer this method of telemedicine consultation over the conventional office visit. Patients have conveyed that “it is so much more convenient and less stressful” to have a telemedicine personal consultation than to take a day off from work to travel to the doctor’s office and sit with other nervous patients in the waiting room.

The COVID-19 pandemic is thus changing much of the way we will do things in the future, and for the better. “Our patients are surprisingly much happier with this approach. Of course, at some point we need to perform hands on treatment. But with this new manner of seeing patients, we can come to the right diagnosis and treatment plan for most patients more efficiently, quickly, and painlessly, with no loss of personal one-on-one communication.” This is a very welcome new era of telemedicine that has been forced on us by the current difficult times.

Adenomyosis Diagnosis, Treatment and Pregnancy

Article has been medically reviewed and certified by Dr. Sherman J. Silber, M.D.

Adenomyosis Treatment

Very few clinics in the world can perform successful adenomyosis surgery without hurting the uterus. We are one of the few that can do that.

Check here to see video and information about adenomyosis surgery.

Adenomyosis Diagnosis

Adenomyosis is a condition where endometrial tissue, i.e., uterine lining cells, are dispersed within the muscle of the uterus. It is essentially “endometriosis” of the uterus.

There is no capsule or line of demarcation between adenomyosis and the rest of the uterine muscle, like exists with the more common condition of uterine fibroids, benign muscle tumors of the uterus.

Adenomyosis is an intensely painful condition, with incapacitating pain during menstruation, and prolonged menstrual bleeding. This is because normally when menstruation occurs, the uterine lining sheds and blood drains out of the uterus. But with adenomyosis, the uterine lining, or endometrial cells, that are trapped within uterine musculature, bleed but cannot drain out.

The uterus gets bigger and bigger and more and more boggy and enlarged and painful. Usually, the only solution to the misery and pain that adenomyosis can cause is considered to be hysterectomy, that is, removal of the uterus.

Adenomyosis and Pregnacy

However, many women with adenomyosis do not want to lose their uterus and wish to be able to have children.

For women who wish to become pregnant and have children, this is an awful decision to make. Yet unlike uterine myomas, or fibroids, which can easily be “shelled out” of the uterus because there is a clear line of demarcation between tumor and true uterine musculature, with adenomyosis, there is no such line of demarcation.

The uterine muscle is completely infiltrated with endometriosis tissue, diffusely and throughout, and there is not even a clear demarcation of uterine lining.

Adenomyosis and Fertility – The Osada Procedure

But a procedure pioneered in Japan by Dr. Hisaeo Osada has solved this problem. The idea is to first prevent the massive bleeding this operation would cause by putting a temporary tourniquet around the uterus, and then to open the uterus boldly all the way down to the endometrial lining.

Then the non-demarcated adenomyotic tissue is excised leaving a centimeter on the endometrial side and a centimeter on the serosal (outer) side of the uterus. Then the remaining muscle of this debulked adenomyotic uterus musculature is closed with many layers of sutures, all non-overlappying flaps, to prevent the risk of rupture.

The results are immediate and dramatic. There is almost instant relief of pelvic pain, and miserable menstrual periods, and normal periods resume with minimal pain. Furthermore, the patient is now able to get pregnant normally. She will need a C-section, but that is a small price to pay for preserving her uterus, allowing full term pregnancy, and alleviating her painful and miserable symptoms.

Check out our video on YouTube detailing the Osada Procedure for Massive Adenomyosis and Preserving the Uterus.

You can also review our scientific paper that outlines the Osada procedure and preservation of the uterus for future pregnancy.

If you have any questions, you may call us at (314) 576-1400.

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