STUDY OBJECTIVE To perform clinical and financial analyses of laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) and total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH). DESIGN During the 16 months between August 1991 and December 1992, 34 women who underwent LAVH were compared with 60 women having TAH during 1990. Indications, surgical outcomes, complications, time to return to work, and hospital charges ...

Within the past decade, acceptance of minimally invasive techniques has changed the traditional approach to hysterectomy from open abdominal procedures to laparoscopy 1. Our objective was to compare efficiency of LAVH and TAH (total abdominal hysterectomy). This retrospective case control study was done in the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Swami Ram Nagar, Dehradun, over a period of ...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to compare the clinical outcomes and associated hospital charges between two methods of hysterectomy for patients with early-stage endometrial cancer. METHODS Retrospective chart review of 320 patients with early-stage endometrial cancer treated by laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) or total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) was performed for the period o...

A case control study of the operative time, blood loss, time for return to work, pain levels, and medications was conducted comparing laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomies (LAVH) with total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH). The average operating time for LAVH was 151 minutes whereas for TAH it was 99 minutes (P<.01). The average length of stay for the LAVH was 2.5 days and for the abdominal ...

OBJECTIVES Total hysterectomy procedures include total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH), total vaginal hysterectomy (TVH), and laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH). Our institution has introduced LAVH as a preferred option to the more invasive TAH. To date, no reports have proposed surgical indications for LAVH based on statistical analysis of surgical results. The purpose of this ...

Seventy percent of hysterectomies in the United States are performed as total abdominal hysterectomies (TAH). Laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) has been promoted by some to be a low morbidity substitute for TAH. In this study, we compared the outcomes of 61 recent LAVH cases to 65 TAH cases performed during an earlier time interval. Data were abstracted from the charts of 65 TAH...

Objective: To analyze the differences in the incidence of postoperative complications in the bladder and urinary system between patients who received modified laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) and those who received classical LAVH to reduce bladder and urinary system complications. Method: Patients who underwent LAVH for uterine disease at Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital ...

Objective The present study aimed to determine the differences in outcomes between natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (NAVH) and conventional laparoscopy-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH). Methods We retrospectively reviewed the charts of patients who between July 2012 and September 2015, were diagnosed as having benign uterine disease such as ute...

OBJECTIVES To determine the safety, cost effectiveness and effect on quality of life of laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) compared with total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH) in the management of benign gynaecological disease. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation. SETTING Three hospitals in the West of Scotland. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred women scheduled fo...

Background. The idea of laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) is to convert a potential abdominal hysterectomy to a vaginal one, thus decreasing associated morbidity and hastening recovery. We compared intraoperative and postoperative outcomes between LAVH and abdominal hysterectomy, to find out if LAVH achieves better clinical results compared with abdominal hysterectomy. Material ...