Staffordshire hospital trust to launch endometriosis study

A trust at the Staffordshire hospital received £ 250,000 to seek a new method to treat endometriosis.

The university bosses of the university hospitals of the NHS Trust NHS Trust (UHNM) said they were aimed at improving the treatment of patients following the study, which is managed in partnership with Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

The two -year project will involve 70 patients recruited from the two sites.

He will compare the use of stents – surgical tubes used to open the body passages – with a new technique for using a small catheter to insert a green color.

Clinicians believe that the new approach can considerably reduce patient pain, surgical complications and recovery time.

“This is an essay that fascinates us because it has a real potential to change the way we do this surgery, both here in Uhnm and internationally,” said gynecologist Consultant Gourab Misra, who is the chief investigator of the trial.

“It is a question of giving our patients the best experience and possible results,” he said.

Endometriosis is a common but debilitating condition where tissues similar to the mucous membrane of the uterus grow outside the uterus, often causing severe pelvic pain and infertility.

The surgery of deep endometriosis was complex, said Misra, and had a risk of damaging the delicate tubes connecting the kidneys to the bladder.

He added that if surgeons used stents to protect tubes, they could cause significant pain as well as bleeding and needed a second procedure to remove them.

During the trial, the participation patients will be assigned to chance either the conventional stent or the technique based on the dye.

A future deployment of the trial could later see the technique adopted through the NHS and in the world, according to the project.