Gynaecology

Department Overview: The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University has a full range of specialties and distinctive features. It is divided into six subspecialties: obstetrics, general gynecology, gynecologic malignancies, gynecologic endoscopy, family planning, and the reproductive medicine center. It also has a genetics laboratory, a vaginal cytology laboratory, a cell culture laboratory, and a genetic diagnosis laboratory. It is the department in the autonomous region with the most distinctive strengths in genetics, eugenics, infertility, family planning, reproductive endocrinology, gynecologic diseases, gynecologic tumors, endoscopy, and the diagnosis and treatment of high-risk pregnant women and parturients. From 1997 to 2009, it was rated a leading and key discipline of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region three times consecutively. It received the national title of “Baby-Friendly Hospital” and in 2006 received the title of the Inner Mongolia regional subcenter of the Ministry of Health’s national “Ten-Year, One-Hundred-Item Cervical Lesion Screening—PCC” program. The department has 212 staff members, including 53 medical personnel: 18 professors (chief physicians), 11 associate professors (deputy chief physicians), and 14 attending physicians, of whom 4 hold doctoral degrees and 37 hold master’s degrees. There are 143 nursing personnel, including 13 deputy chief nurses or above. The wards currently have 207 beds and 5 nursing units. Annual outpatient and emergency visits average more than 135,000, annual inpatient admissions average 9,270, and nearly 5,000 operations are performed annually. Since 2012, the Gynecology Department has appointed Professor Wang Jianliu of Beijing People’s Hospital as a specially appointed professor and has performed advanced level-four procedures such as laparoscopic radical surgery for endometrial cancer, radical surgery for cervical cancer, ovarian cancer surgery, and pelvic-floor reconstruction. Scope of Services: In recent years, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has performed vaginal excision of cesarean-scar pregnancy and impedance-guided endometrial ablation; laparoscopic total hysterectomy, myomectomy, ovarian cystectomy, and diagnosis and treatment of various fallopian-tube lesions; hysteroscopic diagnosis and treatment of uterine malformations, hysteroscopic adhesiolysis, endometrial electrosurgical resection, and resection of submucosal uterine fibroids; female reproductive reconstruction, including intimate plastic and aesthetic surgery and laser technology and female genital-tract reconstruction; transabdominal hysterectomy with vaginal sacrocolpopexy for uterine prolapse combined with uterine fibroids; anterior sacrospinous fascial suspension for pelvic-organ prolapse; modified vaginal closure for pelvic-organ prolapse in elderly women; pelvic-floor reconstruction and surgery for stress urinary incontinence; vaginoplasty; repair of urinary fistulas; vaginal hysterectomy; nonsurgical treatment of pelvic-floor prolapse, including pessary placement and pelvic-floor rehabilitation training after childbirth and for patients with pelvic-floor prolapse. It was the first in the region to develop and standardize treatment of cervical precancerous lesions and gynecologic malignancies (ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, vulvar cancer, and gestational trophoblastic tumors). It also performs neoadjuvant chemotherapy for cervical cancer, para-aortic lymph-node dissection for malignant tumors, modified radical vulvectomy, and other procedures.