Women's Health Summit
An overview of minimally invasive embolization treatment for uterine fibroids, adenomyosus, and PCS
Saturday, Nov 2, 2024 | 8:30 - 11:30 am CST
Women's Health Summit
Minimally invasive treatments are increasingly replacing invasive surgical procedures, which is certainly also reflected in Women’s Health. Women are increasingly demanding the most elegant possible solution to their problem, a short-term, mild procedure with a quick recovery. Embolization meets this requirement.
Embolization as a treatment for abdominal complaints in women has proven to be a safe and effective treatment, but is nevertheless insufficiently known and insufficiently applied in many medical centers. The clinical success of embolization treatment is high in women with specific complaints due to uterine disease (fibroid and/or adenomyosis) and pathological para-uterine pelvic vasculature, like pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS). It therefore deserves extra attention.
Interventional radiology is the specialty par excellence, in which minimally invasive treatment through embolization is gaining ground compared to invasive surgical procedures. This should also apply to optimal personal patient care for women. The aim of the summit is to provide you a detailed overview of minimally invasive embolization treatment for uterine fibroids, adenomyosus, and PCS; the indications, the different approaches, techniques, available materials and clinical follow-up results.
program
Session 1: Fibroid and Adenomyosis
- UAE for adenomyosis: how to adjust my technique
- UAE for adenomyosis: long-term results (QUESTA trial)
- Resorbable particles in UFE – The Japanese experience
- Can we use resorbable microspheres for UFE – The South Korean experience
- Review of evidence for pregnancy after UFE
- Post Partum Bleeding (PPB): How to quickly determine the proper treatment strategy and prevent failure lurking?
- Panel Discussion
Varian Industry Session: Expanding UFE in underserved communities
Session 2: Pelvic Congestion Syndrome (PCS) and AVMs
- Embolization for PCS; Anatomy, patient selection, and how to deal with May-Thurner and Nut-Cracker syndromes
- Embolization for PCS: Coils, Glue, sclerosant, EVOH based agents: how to choose
- Uterine AVMs how to classify, how to treat
- Case 1 – Resorbables in South-Korea for UFE/ADM.
- Case 2 – Post Partum Bleeding: A difficult and stressful case.
- Case 3 – PCS: How I do it in Egypt.
- Case 4 – Challenging case of PCS embolisation.
- Case 5 – A complicated case of AVM embolisation.
- Panel Discussion