Objective: The aim of this research is to present our experiences with the surgical treatment of gynecological patients among Jehovahs Witnesses. Moreover, the medical, moral, and ethical problems in this regard have been highlighted.
Methods: 75 Jehovahs Witnesses patients were operated on for various benign and malignant gynecological diseases between 2007 and 2018.
Epithelial ovarian cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death in women. More than half of patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage, usually due to locoregional spread of peritoneal carcinomatosis. A combination of systemic chemotherapy and cytoreductive surgery has been the standard treatment since the mid-1990s.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate preoperative, perioperative and postoperative data, complications and results in long-term follow-up at patients who underwent Miyazaki´s sacrospinous suspension between January 2002 and December 2018.
Design: Retrospective study.
Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University in Olomouc.
Objective: To point out principles of blood sparing surgery. Medical ethical moral and legal aspects of operations on Jehovahs Witnesses.
Design: Retrospective clinical study.
Objective: To present an overview of minimally invasive approaches to suprapelvic lymphadenectomy and compare two different methods of staging robotic transperitoneal paraaortic lymphadenectomies in patients with early stages of endometrial cancer.
Design: Retrospective study and literature review.
Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc.