The Renaissance of the Vaginal Hysterectomy—A Due Act

Michael Stark (), Antonio Malvasi, Ospan Mynbaev and Andrea Tinelli
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Michael Stark: The New European Surgical Academy (NESA), Unter den Linden 21, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Antonio Malvasi: The New European Surgical Academy (NESA), Unter den Linden 21, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Ospan Mynbaev: The New European Surgical Academy (NESA), Unter den Linden 21, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Andrea Tinelli: The New European Surgical Academy (NESA), Unter den Linden 21, 10117 Berlin, Germany

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 18, 1-10

Abstract: For many years, vaginal and abdominal hysterectomies were part of the routine procedures in many departments. Both of them lost their priority due to the introduction of endoscopy and robotic surgery. The disappearing abdominal hysterectomy is certainly reasonable, but the decline of using vaginal hysterectomy seems not to be justified, and it is an optimal example of the recent emergence of the Natural Orifice Surgery discipline. A modified method for vaginal hysterectomy is presented in order to encourage gynecologists to reconsider vaginal hysterectomy as a valid method. This method is the outcome of critical analyses of different vaginal hysterectomy methods. It is simple, reasonable, only ten steps, easy to learn, perform and teach, and proven to be a shorter operation with minimal blood loss and reduced need for analgesics when compared to the traditional way. Endoscopy or robotic surgery is not available everywhere. Therefore, it is important that gynecologists in low-resource settings be familiar with this simple method.

Keywords: hysterectomy; vaginal hysterectomy; ten-step vaginal hysterectomy; natural orifice surgery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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