What is outpatient hysteroscopy?

Mondo Health Updated on 2024-01-30

When it comes to hospitalization for surgery, many people will have a headache, they have to work, they have to take a baby, and it is even more difficult to ask for a leave. In order to facilitate the treatment of hysteroscopic patients, many hospitals now carry out outpatient hysteroscopic surgery, which is operated on the same day and returned home on the same day.

Outpatient hysteroscopy, as the name suggests, is a diagnosis and treatment method that can perform hysteroscopy and surgery in the outpatient setting. With the rapid innovation of medical devices, the mirror body of the hysteroscope is becoming more and more slender, which can realize the diagnosis and treatment in the outpatient clinic without anesthesia and uterine dilatation during the examination, which saves the patient's time cost and economic cost to the greatest extent. Of course, outpatient hysteroscopy is only suitable for patients with mild symptoms, and patients with difficult surgery, large trauma, heavy bleeding, or patients with other chronic diseases still need to be hospitalized before surgery.

Indications for outpatient hysteroscopy.

1.Abnormal uterine bleeding, prolonged bleeding, abnormal bleeding amount, etc., irregular bleeding after menopause;

2.Ultrasound showed endometrial abnormalities, such as: uneven endometrial echo, suspected endometrial polyps, endometrial hyperplasia, suspected endometrial cancer, etc

3.Exploration of uterine submucosal fibroids, mediastinal uterus, suspected intrauterine adhesions, and malformations;

4.Abnormal intrauterine device position and removal of intrauterine foreign bodies, such as incarcerated IUDs and residual pregnancy products;

5.Unexplained infertility or recurrent miscarriage, history of multiple **, low menstrual flow, history of uterine surgery, severe adenomyosis, etc., even if the endometrium is normal in ultrasound examination, hysteroscopy can also be performed to clarify the fallopian tube opening and uterine cavity lesions;

6.*Exploration of lesions in the cervix and cervical canal;

7.Follow-up after hysteroscopy**.

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