Our specialists use minimally invasive surgery, including some done with a surgical robot, to help women with uterine fibroids, endometriosis, abnormal uterine bleeding and pelvic pain. The results can be life-changing.
Surgeons make a large incision for an open hysterectomy, left, but several minimally invasive small incisions, right.
Benefits to minimally invasive gynecologic surgery include:
- Faster recovery
- Less pain
- Less scarring
- Decreased blood loss
- Smaller incisions with less chance of infection
- Stay less time in the hospital or go home the same day
- Earlier return to normal daily activities
Many minimally invasive gynecologic surgeries are for cancer.
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Our providers are board certified in minimally invasive gynecologic surgery and perform hundreds of complex procedures each year at Hartford Hospital.
We believe in a team-based approach to care, partnering closely with specialists in other gynecologic areas such as urogynecology and gynecologic oncology as well as experts in colorectal, thoracic and urologic surgery. We also work with behavioral health professionals and pelvic floor therapy specialists to give comprehensive care centered on you.
Providers can refer patients for evaluation by our team or patients can self-refer. The team collaborates with other specialists to provide the care patients need.
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