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Treating Adenomyosis: Alternatives to Hysterectomy
on Advances in Medical Imaging
It's not uncommon for women to report experiencing menstrual changes after having given birth two or more times. These changes include shorter cycles, increased cramping, and heavier bleeding, at times with clots. Such changes are hallmark signs of adenomyosis. Definitive diagnosis of adenomyosis can be made easily with MRI or ultrasound, but are there therapeutic options from interventional radiology as well? If so, can these methods replace hysterectomy? Dr. James Spies, professor of radiology at Georgetown University and chairman of the department of radiology at Georgetown University Medical Center, joins host Dr. Jason Birnholz to resolve these questions.
 Dr. Jason Birnholz is considered one of the founders of diagnostic ultrasound imaging. He began scanning as a clinical fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, initially as a means of identifying coronary artery disease, and later for finding and staging various types of tumors. Following completion of residency training in diagnostic radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Birnholz did graduate study in acoustics and mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He subsequently held academic and clinical appointments at Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, and Rush Medical College, lecturing internationally on topics spanning instrumentation, examination technique, and a full range of specific clinical applications. During the last fifteen years, Dr Birnholz has focused on outpatient ultrasound applications, with emphasis on women's health, as the head of Diagnostic Ultrasound Consultants in Oak Brook, Illinois. Dr. Birnholz is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, a fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists of England, and an associate fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers. A number of firsts in the ultrasound field have been credited to Dr. Birnholz: the introductions of digital ultrasound; phased array ultrasound; computed sonography; the first paper on using ultrasound to identify wall movement abnormalities in patients with myocardial infarction. He also developed a free-hand technique that is now the standard of practice throughout the world for ultrasound-guided biopsy and catheter placement. Dr. Birnholz used this technique to perform the first minimally invasive fetal surgery procedures ever reported.
Dr. James B. Spies is professor of radiology at Georgetown University and chairman of the department of radiology at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Spies received his medical degree from Georgetown and did his internship and residency in California, at the California Pacific Medical Center and the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, and a fellowship at the NYU School of Medicine.
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