The San Juan de Dios de León Hospital has acquired a digital mammography equipment, the Senographe Essential from General Electric Healthcare, which will allow obtaining high-quality images with greater speed, efficiency and productivity, improving clinical confidence and minimizing repetitions for a flow more fluid work.
With the largest field of view on the market, this new device has an ergonomic design that allows quick and comfortable positioning of the patient.
Mammography is the best screening test for breast cancer. With it, lesions as small as millimeters can be observed for up to two years before they become palpable, which improves survival results, with a five-year survival rate of more than 90 percent. In addition, by diagnosing tumors in early stages, less invasive treatments can be applied with less impact, both physical and psychological, on the patient.
After the calibration phase, final installation and staff training, which took place this Monday, July 5, the digital mammography machine has started to work in the same location as the previous one.
With the acquisition and installation of this new equipment, the technological endowment of the Radiodiagnostic Service is improved, which in September launched a new state-of-the-art magnetic resonance (MRI) equipment, Philips Ingenia 1.5T, which incorporates the ‘In Bore Experience system ‘with the aim of “humanizing” a test that has a fundamental impact on the detection of tumors and neurological and musculoskeletal diseases, among many others.
New holmium laser
On the other hand, the San Juan de Dios de León Hospital has just incorporated a holmium laser for the treatment of patients with lithiasis (stones or calculi inside the kidneys or urinary tract), as well as for prostate enucleation with a volume greater than 80 grams.
The holmium laser is a system for the amplification of light by stimulated emission of radiation. It is a device capable of transforming other energies into electromagnetic radiation by emitting light beams of different wavelengths.
“It is a state-of-the-art technology that allows a very fast, effective approach with practically no side effects by not damaging the surrounding tissues,” has defended Urology specialist Miguel Ángel Alonso Prieto.
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