Fibroids are common among all women and can often lead to heavy or painful periods and pelvic pain. For a long time, only hormonal medications and two types of surgery (cutting into the uterus or removing it completely) have been around to help women.
Now there’s another option.
The Acessa procedure is a minimally invasive surgery method that focuses heat treatment only on your fibroids to improve your symptoms, and allows the rest of your healthy uterine tissue to be preserved.
HOW ACESSA WORKS:
The Acessa® procedure is a minimally invasive surgery method that is an alternative to other options for management of fibroids. It requires only two small skin incisions (typically one in your belly button and one below your bikini line). It delivers heat (by radiofrequency ablation) directly into a fibroid to destroy its tissue which causes the fibroid to shrink and in turn relieve your symptoms
1. Prep
You are prepped and brought into the operating room for anesthesia.
2. Access
Your physician makes three small incisions – one in your belly button – one below your bikini line – and inserts a tiny camera and ultrasound into each incision.
3. Visualize
Your physician precisely locates each fibroid with the Acessa ultrasound probe and guidance mapping, allowing full view of your uterus.
4. Deploy
Next, your physician deploys the tip of the Acessa handpiece into the fibroid while preserving healthy uterine tissue.
5. Treat
Your physician deploys controlled heat through the Acessa handpiece to destroy the fibroid tissue. Your physician repeats this process until every targeted fibroid is fully treated. Once the procedure is complete, your physician stitches the small incisions on the skin.
6. Recover
You will wake up in the recovery room. Most patients get cleared to go home the same day. Women typically feel ready to return to work after 4-5 days. In terms of when you will see symptom relief – it depends on how big the fibroid is and what symptoms you’re experiencing.
See it in action:
AFTER THE ACESSA PROCEDURE
- Outpatient surgeryMost all patients go home the same day.
- Little downtimeMost patients feel ready to return to work after 4-5 days.
- Minimal side effectsMost patients only require non-narcotic pain medications after surgery. No need for hormonal medications after surgery.
- Fibroids soften and shrinkthe feeling of the fibroid turns from a hard baseball into a soft marshmallow and the volume shrinks about 50% over 9 months.
- Effective94% of patients report that the procedure is somewhat, moderately, or very effective in eliminating their symptoms (1).
- Recommended98% of patients report that they would probably or definitely recommend the procedure to their friends with the same health problem (1).
(1) SG Chudnoff, et al. Outpatient Procedure for the Treatment and Relief of Symptomatic Uterine Myomas. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2013;121(5):1075-82.
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