Women's Guide To Surgical Options In The New Millennium,

Heavy bleeding, fibroids, and urinary incontinence are among the more common health issues effecting women, and can upset work and lifestyle. These disorders can be treated more easily than we thought, without having to resort to major surgery, according to the new book by award-winning author Dr. Udo Wahn, A Woman’s Guide to Surgical Options in the New Millennium: A Gentler Approach.

Dr. Wahn an OB-GYN at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Diego provides a comprehensive medical guide that addresses specific women’s health issues and reviews the latest treatments—minimally invasive surgical procedures that allow shorter hospital stays, less pain, and faster recuperation than older surgical techniques.

A lot of women suffer in secret, thinking that they are an isolated case. They cope with urinary incontinence, fibroids or heavy menstrual bleeding, not knowing that there are new less disruptive solutions. Among these new less invasive techniques are endometrial ablation, uterine artery embolization, tension free vaginal tape (TVT), hysteroscopic surgery, and laparoscopic hysterectomy.

Dr. Wahn begins his book with basic anatomy essential for the maximum understanding of the book and outlines the non-surgical and traditional, invasive surgical options for each disorder. From there, the focus of the book is on the cutting-edge surgical procedures that have been developed to remedy these problems. There is a comprehensive comparison of the most common procedures, ranging from old surgical methods to the latest techniques. He considers the factors that are important to patients, including: success rates, complications, length of hospital stay, recovery time, effect on lifestyle, and even their impact on sexual activities.

Dr. Wahn, who co-wrote the nationally recognized book Your Guy’s Guide to Gynecology, uses easy-to-understand language. He also shares the stories of patients who have benefited from the course of treatment they chose. His new book, A Woman’s Guide to Surgical Options in the New Millennium: A Gentler Approach, gives women the knowledge they need and a clear understanding of options they have to give them hope that indeed, they may well be able to say "No more bad days."