Haifu Knife: What kind of knife is it? (Via. Cornwall Medical HK) скачать в хорошем качестве

Haifu Knife: What kind of knife is it? (Via. Cornwall Medical HK)

Haifu Knife: What kind of knife is it? As a matter of fact, Haifu Knife is a virtual knife. It is a technology that focuses high-intensity ultrasound. This technology focuses all the ultrasound energy onto one point (focus point) , targeting the uterine fibroid through skin. It delivers the ultrasound energy via moving focus points so as to abate the whole uterine fibroid. After ablation, the fibroid will be absorbed gradually by the body and also shrink gradually. Take plexiglass for example. The doctor fixes the focus point of the Haifu Knife at the middle of the plexiglass. We can see that the ultrasound energy can pass safely and harmlessly through the hand under the plexiglass and “burn” and ablate the plexiglass. Just imagine the plexiglass is the fibroid and the hand is the skin. The patient only needs sedation and analgesia during HIFU treatment and lie prone on the Haifu machine. And then the ultrasound propagates through skin and kill the fibroid cells with high temperature, achieving noninvasive killing of the fibroid while keeping the skin and the uterus intact. For the fibroids outside the uterus and in the uterine muscle, open or minimally invasive surgeries are the conventional therapies. That is, to cut open the uterus, remove the fibroids and stitch up again. There is about 0.5% or higher incidence of wound rupture during pregnancy. And that is the risk of surgery. As most fibroids are benign tumors, resection of them is not necessary. The treatment purpose of Haifu Knife is to shrink the fibroids and achieve symptoms relief. The most annoying feature of uterine fibroids is that they may regrow again and again. Compared to conventional surgeries, HIFU ablation has comparable recurrence rate for uterine fibroids, but as it does not leave scars on the uterus, repetitive interventions are plausible. And therefore it wouldn’t worry the patient too much if she has multiple fibroids.