Gynecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system (uterus, vagina, and ovaries).
Medtourism Group affiliated well-known and specialized Gynecologists deal with the following fields:
- Cancer and pre-cancerous diseases of the reproductive organs including ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, vagina, and vulva
- Incontinence of urine
- Amenorrhoea (absent menstrual periods)
- Dysmenorrhoea (painful menstrual periods)
- Infertility
- Menorrhagia (heavy menstrual periods); a common indication for hysterectomy
- Prolapse of pelvic organs
- Infections of the vagina (vaginitis), cervix and uterus (fungal, bacterial, viral, and protozoa)
Therapies
All the experienced Medical Tourism Group Gynecologists provide high quality healthcare services with dignity, respect and responsibility for the women.
Our Group Gynecologists is connected for many years with the leading hospitals in Athens. The modern hospitals or clinics are highly technologically equipped, in order to provide health services, responding to the women needs in the most effective way. As with all surgical specialties, gynecologists may employ medical or surgical therapies, depending on the patient’s personal problem.
Some of the more common operations that gynecologists perform include:
- Dilation and curettage (removal of the uterine contents for various reasons, including completing a partial miscarriage and diagnostic sampling for dysfunctional uterine bleeding refractive to medical therapy)
- Hysterectomy (removal of the uterus)
- Oophorectomy (removal of the ovaries)
- Tubal ligation (type of permanent sterilization)
- Hysteroscopy (inspection of the uterus cavity)
- Diagnostic laparoscopy: to diagnose and treat sources of pelvic and abdominal pain; perhaps most famously used to provide a definitive diagnosis of endometriosis.
- Exploratory laparotomy: may be used to investigate the level of progression of benign or malignant disease, or to assess and repair damage to the pelvic organs.
- Various surgical treatments for urinary incontinence, including cystoscopy and sub-urethral slings.
- Surgical treatment of pelvic organ prolapse, including correction of cystocele and rectocele.
- Appendectomy – often performed to remove site of painful endometriosis implantation and/or prophylactically at the time of hysterectomy or Caesarean section. May also be performed as part of a staging operation for ovarian cancer.
- Cervical Excision Procedures (including cryosurgery) – removal of the surface of the cervix containing pre-cancerous cells which have been previously identified on Pap smear.
