The effect of obesity on cost of total laparoscopic hysterectomy.

Study Objective: To test for the association between increasing patient body mass index (BMI) and the cost of total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH). Secondary outcomes include the relationship between increasing BMI and both peri- and post-operative morbidity.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective cohort study of patients (N = 510) who underwent TLH between January 2017 and December 2018 at a single public tertiary teaching hospital.

A prospective study of the use of the Myosure resectoscope to manage endometrial polyps in an outpatient setting.

Background: The Myosure resectoscope has been in use since 2009. Our unit is the first in Australia to describe the use of the Myosure device in the outpatient setting to resect endometrial polyps.

Aim: To compare patient satisfaction and pain scores of pre- and postmenopausal women undergoing outpatient removal of endometrial polyps using the Myosure device.