Last week two operations on patients with deeply infiltrating endometriosis have been performed in the University Hospital in Kraków. The minimally invasive surgeries resulted in the complete removal of lesions. It is the first step towards the creation of the first nationwide centre for complex diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis and a new hope for women suffering from this disease.
A unique operation consisting in the radical removal of endometrial lesions located in the rectovaginal septum area along with the resection of an intestine fragment and a simultaneous intestinal anastomosis was performed by Prof. Hans-Rudolf Tinneberg, one of the world’s pioneers of minimally invasive gynaecology, Doctor Honoris Causa of the Jagiellonian University. A woman with a suspected ovarian cancer was admitted to the University clinic. The tumour turned out to be a cyst additionally infiltrating the intestine, which is identified as deeply infiltrating endometriosis.
‘We want to initiate a systematic process of diagnosis and treatment of women with endometriosis. We would especially like to provide patients with a single place where they could receive complex medical care, instead of being sent from one specialist to another. The personnel of such a centre would consist of medical staff proficient in diagnosis, conservative treatment and surgical treatment’, explains Prof. Kazimierz Pityński, Head of the Department of Gynaecology and Oncology at the University Hospital.
‘Now it is time to gain more experience in such procedures, and this is the aim of Prof. Tinneberg’s visit. The next step will be to adopt algorithms for diagnosis and treatment procedure. We hope for closer cooperation with radiologists and anatomical pathologists in this area. The success of these surgeries gives our patients hope for curing the illness they have been suffering from for many years’, adds Prof. Pityński.
About 15 percent of Polish woman suffer from endometriosis - an illness, whose common symptoms inclulde strong pelvic pain and infertility.
