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ROUNDS Hartford Hospital’s Wellness Magazine Rounds Advisory Board: Adrienne Bentman, M.D. James Blazar Joseph Klimek, M.D. Stuart Markowitz, M.D. Andrew Salner, M.D. Linda Taylor, M.D. Editor Ellen Franks Designer Clare Philips Writer Jane Bradley Photography Lanny Nagler Cill Russo Calendar Coordinator Kevin Kniss Hartford Hospital 80 Seymour Street Hartford, CT 06102-5037 860.545.5000 Health Referral Service 860.545.1888 or 800.545.7664 www.harthosp.org 1.800.DOCTORS Satellite Offices Avon Wellness Center 100 Simsbury Road Glastonbury Health Care Center 704 Hebron Avenue Hartford Hospital Family Health Center 339 West Main Street, Avon Hartford Hospital Family Health Center 100 Hazard Avenue, Enfield Hartford Hospital Family Health Center 1559 Sullivan Avenue, South Windsor Helen & Harry Gray Cancer Center 80 Fisher Drive, Avon Park North West Hartford Surgery Center Blue Back Square 65 Memorial Road Wethersfield Health Care Center 1260 Silas Deane Highway Windsor Health Care Center 1060 Day Hill Road ROUNDS is a publication of Hartford Hospital. It is not intended to provide medical advice on individual health matters. Please consult your physician for any health concerns. Working Together to Make Care Better Hartford HealthCare’s multiple medical and surgical group practices have a long history of providing extraordinary care. The groups have now been brought together to form a single multispecialty practice with a new name: Hartford HealthCare Medical Group. The group combines all the clinicians and locations formerly known as Hartford Medical Group, Hartford Specialists, Doctors of Central Connecticut, MidState Medical Group and Windham Family Medical Services. Connecting our practices enables us to enhance our service excellence by better coordinating care and allowing physicians and other caregivers to share information, technology, resources and best practices. Our goal is to help our patients stay healthy or return to health. The group includes more than 225 physicians and advanced practitioners with more than 30 specialties in 60 locations. Call us at 877-707-4442 for additional information or to make an appointment. Unionville Avon Farmington Plainville Windsor Hartford West Hartford New Britain Southington Kensington Cheshire Meriden Wallingford Enfield South Windsor Mansfield Storrs Manchester Coventry Glastonbury Wethersfield Willimantic Hebron We’re connecting the dots. And the docs. IOL Psychiatrists Named to Sandy Hook Advisory Commission Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has asked two psychiatrists from Hartford Hospital’s Institute of Living (IOL) to serve on the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission. Named to the expert panel were Harold I. Schwartz, M.D., psychiatrist-in-chief at the IOL and vice president, behavioral health at Hartford Hospital; and Adrienne Bentman, M.D., director of the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program at the IOL. Gov. Malloy asked the Commission to make specific public safety recommendations about school safety, mental health and gun violence prevention. He asked the group to “begin the task of taking a broad, systemic approach in crafting the recommendations that will lead to comprehensive legislative and policy changes that must occur following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School.” Advancing Medicine: Stories of Hope and Healing Hartford Hospital’s continuing series, Advancing Medicine, airs on Hartford’s CBS affiliate, WFSB Channel 3. Join us on June 27 at 7:30 pm for the next episode, which will focus on cardiac surgery. After the show, Hartford Hospital physicians will be live in the WFSB studios to take your calls and questions. Watch for upcoming shows by visiting www.harthosp.org/AdvancingMedicine. 1-800-DOCTORS ® One number. Thousands of acclaimed physicians. 2
Beyond Advanced A hysterectomy through a single belly button incision The most common major gynecological surgical procedure in procedure. “Before my hysterec- withheld), who recently had the the United States, removal of the tomy, my pain and heavy bleeding uterus, puts an end to pelvic pain were worsening. I had been seeing or troublesome menstrual bleeding. a doctor in my rural town for two Hysterectomy once required a years who refused to do a hysterectomy because of my age. By the long incision and left a scar across the entire abdomen. Laparoscopy time I finally saw Dr. Shaneyfelt, I brought advantages over traditional approaches to “open” abdominal Benign uterine fibroid tumors was severely anemic.” surgery. Minimally invasive techniques transformed the surgical or pressure on the bladder or other can cause pelvic discomfort, pain landscape with smaller scars, reduced pain and less blood loss. But Congress of Obstetricians and organs. According to the American even minimally invasive surgery Gynecologists, one in ten women usually involves several incisions of reproductive age in the United for the camera-tipped scope and States suffer from endometriosis, instruments. a disabling condition that causes Now a new surgical method pain and cramping when cells allows the physician to make only from the uterine lining spread to a single incision, or port, just inside the ovaries, Fallopian tubes, bladder and bowel. the belly button. Research shows that single-port laparoscopic surgery offers cosmetic advantages, had tried medications, but her fi- Although she was only 34, Kim shorter recovery times and fewer broids kept growing. “I was astonished when Dr. Shaneyfelt showed complications. “We make an incision, a little me a picture of the multiple more than an inch long, just below tumors that dwarfed my uterus,” the navel,” said obstetrician-gynecologist Kristin Shaneyfelt, D.O. technology and I was happy to said Kim. “She was open to new “We insert the camera and instruments through a port that’s shaped least amount of scarring possible.” have my uterus removed with the sort of like a Tupperware lid. We Dr. Kristin Shaneyfelt “Laparoscopic hysterectomy switch instruments through the with transvaginal removal of the same port, cutting and cauterizing (stanching the bleeding) with little blood loss and good visualization of the triosis,” said Dr. Shaneyfelt. “We close the incision with uterus is a safe approach for benign fibroids or endome- abdomen. Then we simply remove the uterus and cervix dissolvable stitches that can’t even be seen six weeks through the vagina.” later. One of my patients was concerned about keeping “My scar isn’t even a half-inch long and it’s hidden in her navel ring, so we made an incision to minimize the the folds around my belly button,” said Kim (last name scar so she could still wear her jewelry.” I was surprised that I recovered so quickly,” said Kim. “I had very little pain after my hysterectomy. I went home after an overnight stay in the hospital and was back at work six weeks later. 3
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