Introduction to Vascular and Interventional Centre
Vascular and Interventional Centre provides patients with comprehensive high-quality and high-standard healthcare for vascular and heart diseases. The centre gathers high academic medical professionals to provide patients with treatments for various vascular diseases via minimally invasive procedures, effectively preventing the occurrence of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) on a personalized and precise medical level for each patient. The key treatments include balloon angioplasty, stent implantation, clot softening and removal, blood clot filter implantation and retrieval, mechanical thrombectomy, endovascular aneurysm repair, embolization, and other advanced therapeutic interventions. Our clinic offers advanced treatments for uterine cancer Singapore, ensuring top-notch care for our patients.
Moreover, our medical team also provides theoretical and practical training on these advanced therapies for other medical professionals, paying close attention to the development needs of minimally invasive treatment in vascular intervention. Vascular intervention is a branch that encompasses multiple fields and serves as a means to join them. It includes angioplasty, stenting, embolization, and thrombolysis. These treatments are applied to various systems and lead to the development of special emerging therapies, which have significant long-term scientific effects.
Overview of Vascular Conditions and Their Treatment
Vascular conditions
Early detection and personalized treatment plans are key in managing uterine cancer effectively. The vascular system is the system of specialized vessels which transports blood through the tissues of the body. Over half of the human body is made up of water, which is “carried” through the body in the superior and inferior vena cava, and with the help of the large and smaller arteries and veins. The smaller tubes are called capillaries. Arteries carry blood away from the heart, while veins return it. The main function of the arteries is to supply oxygen and nutrients and to remove metabolic waste products from the tissue. The veins serve the opposite purpose by returning the blood to the lungs. The capillaries are designed for gas exchange and transmission of materials between the blood and the tissue. The vascular system is also a significant organ for the regulation of blood flow circumstantially.
Vascular conditions and their treatment
We specialize in diagnosing and treating uterine fibroids, providing relief and improving quality of life for our patients. Vascular conditions can develop throughout the body and can occur for various reasons. Congenital and hereditary conditions can often be the cause of vascular conditions. In these cases, symptoms develop at a very young age in childhood. With acquired vascular conditions, the disease develops as a consequence of wear and age, the effect of risk factors present in the background, or even as a result of an earlier disease. The symptoms can vary, as weakened arteries in the brain have an entirely different manifestation from the development of varicose veins. The initial symptoms can be so weak that the patient does not even notice them, and the GP discovers the condition for other reasons. Increased pressure or pain in the extremities is much more common, as are back pain and abdominal pain caused by circulatory disorders. By comparing blood pressure values in the arms and legs and with the help of a Doppler ultrasound device, the specialist and the doctor can quickly determine whether a circulatory disorder is present and give the patient appropriate guidelines for what they should do next.
Minimally Invasive Procedures in Vascular Care
Minimally invasive procedures have become preferred options given the reduced disorders and a shorter recovery period for patients. As a premier centre with the highest volume of cases in utilizing cutting-edge interventional techniques, the Vascular and Interventional Centre is dedicated to treating a wide range of vascular conditions and strives to provide clinical care with state-of-the-art endovascular skills, advanced safety oversight, and efficient service delivery. Besides common and critical endovascular operations, the Centre also explores specific endovascular treatment of challenging conditions, expected treatment, and investigation with novel or combined applications. The primary advantage of these methods is to reduce the risk of significant surgery and shorten the inactive time.
Because there is no external incision, the minimally invasive procedures needed in this category can also be categorized as “no-cutting” or “percutaneous” procedures. The nail-sized gap used in the operation was only temporarily applied with the most advanced medical techniques. With many new medical advances and a growing patient population, the indications have been updated in turn, and the services of a Vascular and Interventional Centre have become more enriched. These technologies will help tackle medical challenges today, whether invasive cancer, non-treated, and cardiorespiratory problems, adult illness, or retrieved in almost all stages.
Understanding Uterine Cancer and Fibroids
Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that develop mainly in the muscle wall of the uterus and can cause a range of symptoms, including abnormal bleeding, lower abdominal pain, and infertility. Uterine fibroids can grow rather large, and sometimes the only option is to remove the whole uterus, resulting in a hysterectomy. Though it is not easy to pinpoint the exact cause of uterine cancer, women with postmenopausal symptoms, overweight, or high blood pressure, and who have taken hormone replacement therapy (estrogen alone type) for a long period might, if undetected and untreated, have an increasing risk of developing the disease. Technological innovations have brought about newer, minimally invasive techniques that offer a shorter hospital stay, significant reduction in blood loss, and quicker recovery. In fact, with the introduction of uterine artery embolization, even hysterectomy for uncontrollable bleeding is likely to be avoided.
The increasing role of specialized services in women’s healthcare and more and more significant developments in minimally invasive intervention have greatly improved the successful treatment rates. Already and in time to come, interventions that can take a woman back to her normal, living self rapidly and safely will become increasingly popular with women patients everywhere. Based on recent published findings, uterine artery embolization has reached a stage where it is no longer deemed as “experimental” but an “established” treatment for symptomatic fibroids, and “sufficient scientific and practical experience” on techniques, indications, and results on uterine artery embolization has been sufficiently accumulated. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom has placed specific guidelines together for clinicians and patients on uterine artery embolization. Among requests for repeat embolization, 13.6% are for recurrence of menorrhagia, 86.4% are for uterine fibroids, and of all women, 2% are for malignant pelvic tumors. Embolization for such conditions can provide the patients with a measure of symptomatic relief from pain and obstruction.
Distinguishing Between Uterine Cancer and Fibroids
Uterine fibroids and uterine cancer are very different conditions, but they can share the same signs and symptoms until the disease progresses. Initially, both conditions can present as excessive vaginal bleeding, causing anemia and requiring blood transfusion to ease the symptoms. Patients with fibroids alone present approximately 80% of the time, and cancer occurs in 5% of women with fibroids. The risk of uterine malignancy in a woman with fibroids increases with age. Fibroids (myoma) cause heavy menstrual bleeding, pelvic pressure, significant body mass effect, backache, constipation, pain, and prolonged labor in pregnancy. Fibroids are not fatal. Uterine cancer causes all or some of these symptoms, plus preovulatory or postmenopausal bleeding that occurs monthly for three consecutive months in an individual. Uterine cancer invades the architectural barrier of the myometrium and invades the body endometrium. Adenocarcinoma occurs in 82% of uterine cancer patients, and it expands extensively regardless of age. When suspected, it is hypothesized. The pro-MRI interaction influences the diagnosis, and the follow-up validates the combination. Unlike fibroids, very few patients receive a cancer diagnosis, if any, until the crime is completely committed.
Uterine cancer is sometimes present by the time the patient receives her diagnosis, and depending upon her age and health factors, she may require a series of extensive surgical procedures or radiation and chemotherapy. Approximately 3½ cancer patients have no postoperative morbidity after treatment and surgery, while ½ of those have a few months’ lag period of intrinsic and extrinsic factors along the treatment path and experience different internal disease burden. Gynecological oncologists contribute to the success of the patients through different surgical approaches, transvaginal-support surgery, vaginal exenteration, laparoscopic transabdominal surgery, robotic surgery, and various types of caring and taxicare. In light of the foregoing obviously life-threatening aspects, the desire is to use alternatives to techniques that utilize vast and vital resources and demand from providers. There are unique training requirements to ensure that the high quality of patient protection is maintained, especially for patients with advanced or metastatic cancer, such as those needing urogynecological surgery, especially for the treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer that causes radiation cystitis and overall resultant patient urine and fecal incontinence. No following, because this guidance will be provided.
