Faced with the risk of uterus removal dashing hopes of her conceiving, a woman in her late 20s became a proud mother a fortnight ago after undergoing a MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) at a private city hospital.
The woman was just a year into her marital life when she was diagnoised with adenomyosis, a medical condition resulting in enlarged uterus and doctors had advised her to undergo hysterectomy as the remedy for her medical condition.
As a last resort, she walked into Womens Centre about a year back, with utter pain, both physically and mentally, as she suffered from excruciating physical pain besides heavy bleeding during her menstrual cycles, Dr Mirudhubashini Govindarajan, Head, Womens Centre, said.
MRgFUS is a non-invasive surgical technique which uses ultrasound as treatment device and MRI as visualising tool and is done sans anaesthesia, hospitalisation or any blood loss with the patient lying flat on her stomach, Dr Ramya Jayaram, the MRgFus expert, said.
Stating that the woman responded to the treatment well though it took four hours to complete the procedure, Mirudhubashini said it took a little more than the usual time because the uterus was abnormal in size.
However, within three months the woman bounced back to her old self and a normal life, she said
After a period of symptom-free life, the woman and her husband chose to undergo fertility treatment too resulting in a normal and uneventful pregnancy, she said.
The woman, a happy mother now, after delivering a healthy baby girl on November two, cuddling her bundle of joy, said "I have tears in my eyes today, but these tears are not the result of pain but joy."
Since there are only two centres in India, which offer this procedure- one offers it for treating fibroids, Women's Centre used it for Adenomyosis too.
Mirudhubashini claimed that this case was first such in the country.
(Reopens mes2)
Meanwhile, Railway police said tonight that one person has been taken into custody in connection with the incident.
The arrest will be recorded only after the complainant identifies the person, police said.
