Abstract:
Office operative hysteroscopy is an outpatient surgical procedure which can be done at hospitals, community clinic, free standing surgical centres and medical offices for treatment of uterine cavity or cervical canal pathology under direct visualization using hysteroscopic instruments. This procedure makes operative hysteroscopy easy, safe and feasible, without or with dilatation of the uterus cervix, using newer narrow-diameter hysteroscopes. Operative hysteroscopy is performed without general anaesthesia, is less expensive, less time consuming, offers greater patient comfort, less complications with fast or no recovery. A high level of expertise of medical stuff is recommended and a correct diagnosis of uterine pathology before undertaking an operative hysteroscopy is required. Newer technologies and research will contribute to safer diagnosis and therapy of uterine cavity pathology with better tolerance and therapy for the patient and less cost of the procedure.
Biography:
Dr. Irene (Eirini) Orfanoudaki is a gynecologist-obstetrician, having a private practice in Heraklion, Crete, and collaborating with private health clinic 'MITERA' - Euromeda in Heraklion. With around 21 years of experience as a gynecologist-obstetrician, she specializes in ultrasound, colposcopy, minimal and advance gynecologic surgery, aesthetic gynecology, fertility consulting, menopause consulting, operative obstetrics, high-risk pregnancy, normal deliveries, antenatal, intra-parum, postnatal care, breast diseases, and teenage issues.
Her cooperation with Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (Heraklion) led to Dysis Colposcope (she was the first gynaecologist clinical researcher of multispectral imaging colposcope 1996-2001).
In 2005, Dr. Orfanoudaki presented her PhD 'Development and clinical evaluation new in vivo diagnostic methods for the early diagnosis of lower female genital tissue lesions", at Medical School of University of Crete and her book 'Optical biopsy of uterine cervix using a multispectral imaging colposcope’, was published in 2007. She has also published several research papers and presentations at national and international levels.
