In the News: The Dangers of Power Morcellation for Uterine Fibroid Removal
The FDA speaks out Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a memorandum that discouraged surgeons from using a common procedure called power morcellation to remove uterine...
View Articleda Vinci Surgery In The News: How Safe Is It?
A few days ago, I saw a local newspaper article that described a botched robotic surgery from 2009. The article went on to claim that new surgical technologies such as the da Vinci® Surgical System are...
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SILS – Single Incision Laparoscopy Surgery on Norwalk Hospital’s Health Talk
Yesterday, I appeared on “Health Talk” to discuss SILS – Single Incision Laparoscopy Surgery. In a nutshell, instead of a six-inch incision required by traditional surgery (or even the three to four...
View ArticleNOTES: The Newest Frontier In Minimally Invasive Surgery
Insights from Chicago on a potentially safer type of surgery Last month I went to a conference in Chicago that focused on an exciting new type of surgery — one that has the potential to reduce scarring...
View ArticleSILS Surgery Provides the Potential for No Visible Scars
For many of my patients, the word “surgery” has a host of associated meanings: long hospital stays, time away from home/family/work, significant pain, lengthy recovery period … and visible scarring....
View ArticleClinical study finds advantages to laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy as a pelvic...
Those of you who have followed my blogs for a while know that I’ve written about pelvic prolapse a few times — once about daVinci surgery and another time regarding a clinical study that was set up to...
View ArticleJohn Garofalo, M.D. Receives Certifications in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic...
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2011 Norwalk, CT – Today John Garofalo, M.D. was admitted to the Registry of the Council of Gynecologic Endoscopy (CGE) with certification at the...
View Articleda Vinci surgery: your questions answered
As one of the first doctors in Fairfield County, Connecticut to be certified in da Vinci surgery, I’m asked a lot of questions about the technology and how it can be used to treat endometriosis,...
View ArticleLAPAROSCOPIC VS. VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY – How Do the Procedures Compare?
A recent medical study found that women who had a laparoscopic hysterectomy generally experienced less blood loss, less pain and a shorter hospital stay compared with women who had a vaginal...
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