Ceana Nezhat, M.D., editor of this month’s issue of Atlanta Medicine, contributes articles on topics such as "The Wide-Ranging Influence of Endoscopy" and "IDEAL Minimally Invasive Surgery." Click here to view the full issue!

NEW YORK – Power morcellation has been highly controversial since the Food and Drug Administration warned against its use in the majority of women undergoing myomectomy or hysterectomy for fibroid treatment last year. So where does that leave ob.gyns. who perform minimally invasive surgery? At the annual Minimally Invasive Surgery Week, experts from around the [...]

Ceana Nezhat, MD, an expert in reproductive surgery and complex pelvic pathology from Atlanta, gives an update on a multidisciplinary fellowship for advanced abdominal and pelvic surgery.

CASE: Patient opts for myomectomy A 41-year-old woman, G0, with symptomatic myomas wishes to preserve her reproductive organs rather than undergo hysterectomy. She chooses laparoscopic myomectomy. Preoperative imaging with transvaginal ultrasound reveals a 4-cm posterior pedunculated myoma and a 5-cm fundal intramural myoma. Preoperative videohysteroscopy reveals external compression of the anterior intramural myoma without intracavitary [...]

In late 2013,a public awareness campaign was initiated after electromechanical morcellation (EMM) of a uterus with presumed benign leiomyoma, which in fact was leiomyosarcoma (LMS). Over the past year, the focus of the medical community has been on the incidence of occult LMS, specifically related to EMM. The risk of intracorporeal tissue dissemination by EMM [...]

Dr. Ceana Nezhat’s video, “Laparoscopic Management with Enclosed Transvaginal Tissue Extraction” has been awarded Best Video/Gynecology of Minimally Invasive Surgery Week 2015. Dr. Ceana Nezhat will be honored during Minimally Invasive Surgery Week on September 2-5 in New York where The Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons awards a Certificate of Merit for the best video in the general surgery, [...]

5 Important Characteristics of an Endometriosis Expert Surgeon and Non-Surgeon. Specialist A sub-specialist gynecologist or reproductive endocrinologist whose primary focus is the management and treatment of endometriosis is vital. Typically, this is not the physician who delivered your babies, if applicable. These specialists are abreast of the most current technological advancements for successful diagnosis and [...]

Download Article Here Ever since Vincent Knapp published his 1999 article ‘‘How old is Endometriosis?’’ (1), there seems to have been renewed interest in identifying just when endometriosis was discovered as a distinct disease entity. While the history of endometriosis subsequent to its 1860 microscopic unveiling by Karl von Rokitansky has been well-studied, its story leading [...]

Download Article Here Although endometriosis and infertility are clearly linked—in life as well as the medical literature—no causal relationship has been established. Nevertheless, data suggest that 25% to 50% of infertile women have endometriosis, and that as many as 30% to 50% of women who have endometriosis are infertile.1 Among the mechanisms that have been proposed [...]

Endometriosis has affected women for millennia, its symptoms sometimes causing them to fall to the ground and writhe with pain. In this disease, tissue that is similar to uterine lining grows outside of the uterus, building up and then bleeding with every menstrual cycle. Besides extreme pain, endometriosis can cause infertility, entanglements among various abdominal [...]