LAVH full form in medical is Laparoscopic Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy. You may know that hysterectomy has been around for quite a while now, but the old methods aren’t that minimally invasive. Thus the laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy was introduced, and soon enough it became quite popular among patients who wanted to get their uterus or cervix for some reason. Hundreds and thousands of women have their uterus or cervix removed every year in the world, and LAVH is the most common surgical procedure is performed to achieve that.
Well, the biggest benefit of having LAVH over the old hysterectomy method is that you won’t have any scars on your abdominal region post-recovery. And that is because when doing a hysterectomy using the laparoscopy method, the surgeons usually make 3 to 4 small incisions on the abdominal region, and after the procedure, these incisions are closed using stitches, thus you won’t have any clear scars. Another benefit of having LAVH is that the recovery time is impressively fast. After a successful laparoscopic-assisted vaginal hysterectomy, you’ll be back to your normal routine within a few weeks or so.