Dr. Alok Kumar Performs First Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy at Baptist DeSoto

Laparoscopic hysterectomy is a action performed with the aid of a attenuate optical tube accepted as a laparoscope. The action begins with a abbreviate cavity just below the navel, through which the laparoscope is inserted. After the physician has advised the pelvic across through the laparoscope, added incisions are fabricated through which surgical instruments are introduced. Using the laparoscope to adviser him, the physician again cuts the uterus abroad from the body, and into baby strips which can be removed through the abdomen incisions. Once the absolute agency has been removed, alone a few baby stitches are bare to adjustment the incisions.

According to Dr. Alok Kumar, who afresh performed Baptist DeSoto’s aboriginal anytime laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy: “Although this action involves a best operating time and greater surgical skill, it provides the advantage of a acknowledgment home aural 24 hours, and a acknowledgment to accustomed activities aural two to four weeks. Traditional abdomen hysterectomies, however, absorb a ample incision, a college amount of affliction in recovery, and at atomic a six-week accretion time.”

Dr. Kumar abutting the Southaven appointment of Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecological Association, PC (MOGA) in February of this year. He has a appropriate absorption in assuming minimally invasive surgical procedures which abatement postoperative affliction and accretion times for patients. Prior to advancing to MOGA, he served as an Associate Physician with Chesapeake Women’s Care in Annapolis, MD. He is a alum of Memphis’ own White Station High School, as able-bodied as Duke University. He abounding medical academy at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine, area he aswell completed his address in obstetrics and gynecology. During his schooling, he was accustomed by the University of Tennessee as the best citizen in affectionate fetal medicine, and as the best apprentice during his OB/GYN clerkship. Additionally, he was a affiliate of Phi Chi medical fraternity, area he served as admiral for two years and vice-president for one.

Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecological Association, PC is one of the better providers of women’s healthcare in the Memphis area, with offices at St. Francis-Bartlett, Methodist-Germantown, Baptist Women’s Hospital, and in Southaven. For added advice on MOGA or Dr. Kumar, appointment them on the web at www.mogamd.com, or alarm the Southaven appointment at (662) 349-5554.