Al Ain Hospital: 800 fibroids removed from the uterus without surgical intervention

Dr. Jamal Al-Din Al-Qutaish, head of the Institute of Radiology and Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Al Ain Hospital, a subsidiary of SEHA, and the Chairman of the Ninth International Conference on Radiology, which concluded yesterday, confirmed that he and his team at Al Ain Hospital were able to treat 800 patients with uterine fibroids, without surgical intervention. He stressed that the advantages of this medical procedure include preserving the uterus and the woman's ability to become pregnant and give birth.

Al-Qutaish revealed the success of Al Ain Hospital’s experience in treating erectile dysfunction in men with the embolization catheter technique, as it achieved great success in applying a new technique for the treatment of men with impotence and infertility, through catheter embolization, which is an advanced technique for a surgical intervention for men with impaired sexual function and infertility. Where this process is done through endoscopy and radiography.

He said that the new technique had achieved success in treating many cases of sexual disorders, explaining that the embolization catheter process is done through making a small incision of no more than three mm in length in the ureter area through the femoral vein, through the combined axis technique, which uses small tubes called catheters, And small guide wires, with the aim of reaching the diseased veins, then injecting catheters in the form of ultra-small particles of a colloidal substance, which are used to block any areas through which blood leaks from the veins, according to what the radiographic endoscopy reveals during the catheterization process.

Dr. Raqwana Baharoun, a nuclear medicine consultant at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, reviewed the results of a study she conducted with a research medical team on thyroid nodes that cause thyroid cancer.

The study was conducted on about 436 patients retrospectively for patients who had previously received treatment for gland diseases, and a biopsy was taken from about 555 patients, for patients from citizens and residents in Abu Dhabi, of various nationalities, and their ages ranged between 18 and 80 years, of both sexes, where the gland nodes were studied. Thyroid cancer to find out the extent of cancer tumors in the period from 2011 to 2015, the diagnosis was made using ultrasound, along with biopsy, and the help of histology.

The study showed that the prevalence of thyroid nodules is high among Asian nationalities residing in Abu Dhabi, at 16.8%, Arab nationalities by 10%, and among Emiratis by 9.6%, noting that the global percentage of thyroid nodules ranged between 4-8%. The study also showed that the prevalence of nodules in the thyroid gland was more in women than in men, and that if men were in the prime of life, the rate of transformation of the nodes into a tumor was high, while if the men were middle-aged, the nodule in 2.4% of them transformed into a cancerous tumor. .

The participants in the conference, which was organized by the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company “SEHA”, recommended the use of inert gases in arterial imaging instead of dyes to reduce their effects on the kidneys, as carbon dioxide gas proved highly effective in imaging the lower extremity arteries, increasing the training activities of radiologists and increasing their capabilities. To understand the latest methods of diagnosis and treatment.

The lecturers also stressed the need to use the latest cardiac imaging methods for patients with coronary and pulmonary arteries.

The recommendations included coordination between the legislative, executive and supervisory authorities in Abu Dhabi in the field of protection from ionizing radiation; With the aim of unifying national policies, procedures and regulations for radiation protection.