Diagnostic hysteroscopy

It’s a minimally invasive procedure which can be performed with local or general anesthesia. The procedure is acceptable to the patients because it’s a short procedure and because you would recover the very same day.

The indication scope is vast, it could involve every sexually active adult. Should a patient notice unusual bleeding, irregularities, issues detected via an ultrasound check-up or infertility, we could use this procedure to resolve the issue. It’s also very useful for procedures such as contraception fitting, removing a spiral, sterilizing. Since it is a localized, vaginal intervention, there are no age limits for it, we would do it as long as there are indications for it.

We could do diagnostic ana surgical hysteroscopy at the same time.  Diagnostically, we would use it to look at the interior of the womb and diagnose any issues. It is usually done with local anesthesia. It is done when we cannot diagnose a condition using ultrasound or HSG, which have their weaknesses. Hysteroscopy gives precise findings and a clear image that would confirm or rule out a problem (local or anatomical).  Surgical hysteroscopy is performed under general anesthesia in order to operatively treat damage or issues in the uterine interior.  We could do it to treat or remove polyps, septum, endometrium issues or to rule out such problems.

 Hysteroscopy doesn’t require any special preparations. The patient could be asked to take oral contraceptives or the procedure could be done in the last few days before the cycle, or right after it in order to get the clearest images of the uterine cavity. It is only required that the patient hasn’t consumed food or drinks for at least 4-6 hours prior to the procedure and that anesthesia is not contraindicated, which is very rare.