Oophorectomy is a surgical procedure to remove ... stay in the hospital for a day or two following abdominal surgery. Laparoscopic surgery may require only one night in the hospital and may ...

Women of childbearing age who had both ovaries removed, in a procedure called bilateral oophorectomy, were more likely to develop heart failure later in life, according to a study being presented at ...

Bilateral oophorectomy is associated with an increased risk for heart failure, with a greater risk seen with younger age and ...

Women report less pain after a laparoscopic procedure than the abdominal incision procedure. After surgery a woman may feel some discomfort. The degree of discomfort varies and is generally ...

Similarly the ovary on the other side is identified and removed, if bilateral oophorectomy is indicated ... it is more painful in comparison to the laparoscopy procedure and has the usual ...

this time removing her ovaries and fallopian tubes in a procedure known as a laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. PEOPLE spoke with cancer expert Eva Chalas (who did not treat the 39-year ...

Bristow RE and Montz FJ (2005) Prevention of adhesion formation after radical oophorectomy using a sodium hyaluronate-carboxymethylcellulose (HA-CMC) barrier. Gynecol Oncol 99: 301–308 ...