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Colposcopy and Hysteroscopy

The Important Facts About Colposcopy and Hysteroscopy

According to the medical terms, colposcopy is the procedure to examine the cervix, tissues of the vagina and vulva with an illuminated and magnified view. Jyoti Parkash IVF Hospital performs the procedure with complete care and the expert doctors carry out the examination with the real time results. During the process, an instrument is used that’s recognized as the colposcope that helps to carry out the entire method successfully. After your Pap test result shows any sort of abnormalities, your doctor would recommend for colposcopy where a sample of the tissue would be collected for biopsy test.

The Colposcopy Procedure

Here are the features showing the stepwise colposcopy as is performed at the Jyoti Parkash Hospital. Consider the steps below:

– The woman needs to lie down on the table in the similar way as that of the Pap test.
– The speculum (made of metal or plastic) is inserted into the vagina separating the walls. The woman may face some difficulties like too much pressure during the insertion.
– The doctor would mop up the walls of the vagina and cervix with a particular solution that removes the unnecessary mucus. Now, the abnormal cells would become visible and sometimes iodine is also added to make the abnormal cells more clear.
– The doctor examines the vagina through the colposcope that remains outside and never enters the body.

In this way, the examination is performed viewing the vagina and cervix detecting the presence of the atypical cells.
Facing problems with the lining of your uterus? Then you need to consult with your doctor performing the hysteroscopy. Here, the tip of the hysteroscope comes out with the light that’s used by the doctor to examine the lining of the uterus. If you are facing cramping or abnormal form of bleeding from your uterus, it’s important to check up the uterine openings detecting the roots of such problems. Also, if a patient is facing repetitive miscarriages hysteroscopy is the best way to know the underlying issue for which such complications are appearing.

The Hysteroscopy Procedure

The steps are given here as follows explaining how the entire procedure is carried out. See the points below:

– A local anaesthetic or a general anaesthetic is usually used to deaden a small area while carrying out the test.
– Here also the speculum is inserted as that of the colposcopy following which the hysteroscope gets inside the cervix up to the womb.
– A particular type of gas or fluid is used to get an inflamed womb that would give the doctor a better view.
– Sometimes, it becomes necessary to take out the polyps for biopsy test and in that case, some other instruments are inserted to collect the tissues.
Overall, hysteroscopy takes a time of 10-30 minutes depending on what needs to be done according to the complexity the patient is facing.

So, Colposcopy and Hysteroscopy both are the ways detecting the abnormalities in the cervix, vagina or the womb that lead to the infertility symptoms for a woman.