Total Hysterectomy: What it is, Indications, How to Do It and Risks

total is the surgical procedure aimed at removing the uterus and cervix.

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Sometimes associated with the removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes, total hysterectomy is indicated in the presence of: severe endometriosis, uterine leiomyomas and fibroids, adenomyosis, uterine cancer, cervical cancer, persistent metrorrhagia, uterine prolapse and pelvic pain persistent chronic.
Total hysterectomy is an operation that requires specific preparation and which, depending on the surgical technique used, requires the use of general, epidural or spinal anesthesia.
After the total hysterectomy, there is a period of hospitalization, which must be followed by an adequate recovery program.
Total hysterectomy is a major surgery, therefore it presents the classic risks associated with practices of this kind.

), the "total hysterectomy is an" operation with important repercussions on female fertility: women subjected to the removal of the uterus and cervix, in fact, can no longer have children, even if they are in full fertile age.
The total hysterectomy represents a possible variant of the hysterectomy procedure; it, in fact, is added to the supracervical (or subtotal) hysterectomy, which consists in the removal of the uterus but not the uterine cervix, and to the radical hysterectomy, which involves the removal of uterus, cervix, vagina and parametrium.