International patients
The treatment includes the airport-hospital-airport transfers and up to a two-night stay at the Holiday Inn hotel, that is located within our facilities.
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Patient Story
I was laid down on a comfortable bed, just like a waterbed, with my head outside the machine.
My husband was with me and I was able to speak to him all the time. The only inconvenience was during those few seconds when the machine focused the ultrasound; I felt cramps as if I was in my period.
However, they disappeared as soon as the machine stopped focusing the ultrasound. Mostly, I felt a mild feeling of warmth. So I can say the experience was practically painless.
When the procedure was over, I felt as if nothing had happened to me.
It seemed to me a much better option than having my abdomen cut open, and having to spend weeks of recovery at home.
Another very important advantage was that I could preserve my uterus, because in the future my husband and I wish our family to grow.
I recommend ExAblate as the first and best option to every woman who is in my situation.
The ExAblate Procedure
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Top Quality. Best Price
ExAblate is the latest and most innovative procedure to treat uterine fibroids and bring to an end the symptoms caused by them.
- It’s a non-invasive outpatient procedure that doesn’t involve any radiation, neither surgery, nor the use of anesthesia.
- It is performed in just four hours: it’s an ambulatory procedure that doesn’t require a single night of hospital stay.
- It is practically risk-free.
- It preserves your uterus, and with this, the possibility of getting pregnant in the future (when uterine fibroids are the cause of infertility). Moreover, the importance of preserving your uterus goes beyond pregnancy, as its presence is also a factor that plays a key role throughout menopause.
- The recovery time after the procedure is amazingly quick: you can resume your normal, everyday activities in just 24 hours, after being treated with ExAblate.
Price
We are currently offering THE LOWEST COST in the world for the ExAblate treatment: $5,122 USD (tax included), with the latest and most sofisticated equipments (all approved by the FDA); first-class attention to our patients; and a professional medical staff that comprises internationally certified doctors, backed by years of experience and of successful application of the procedure, with effective results.
This cost includes, FOR FREE, the airport-hotel-airport transportation in Mexico City via the Holiday Inn shuttle (available by reservation), and up to a two-night stay for two people in a double room at the Holiday Inn hotel, located within our hospital facilities.
Quality
As operational expenses are much lower in Mexico City than in the U.S, we are able to deliver the ExAblate treatment at such exceptional cost, while meeting and maintaining the highest and first-rate standards of quality and service.
Our clinic is part of one of the biggest and most renowned hospitals in our country: Médica Sur, a world-class health and medical institution that performs every kind of medical procedure and service, with the aid of the latest and most innovative state-of-the-art technology.
Your safety is one of our main concerns
To suit your best convenience and safety, we have designed a service for you that is planned in a way that you never leave a safe and controlled environment: Once your airplane arrives in Mexico City’s International Airport, the Holiday Inn shuttle will pick you up, and take you directly to your hotel—The Holiday Inn that is based in the same grounds of the Médica Sur hospital complex, where our Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit is also located (and where your procedure will be performed).
After your procedure is over and you leave our Unit, and after checking out of the hotel, the Holiday Inn shuttle will take you back to the airport, with enough hours ahead of the departure time of your return flight.
This plan ensures complete safety for you, throughout the entire two-to-three-day duration of your trip and stay in Mexico City.
What is ExAblate?
ExAblate is the most advanced and scientifically recognized method to alleviate the bothersome symptoms produced by fibroids, while preserving the uterus and the possibility of a future pregnancy. This method is performed through the combination of two state-of-the-art technologies:
- A guided focused ultrasound which produces thermal waves (heat); and
- Magnetic resonance images which lead the heat to a specific target: the fibroid that is burned by the heat, resulting in its necrosis or biological death. This melting process is called thermal ablation.
Ultrasound and magnetic resonance work together as follows:
Planning the magnetic resonance treatment.
First, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MR) is used to draw a topogram of the uterus, which will render an accurate and tridimensional image of the fibroid(s) that, in turn, will allow planning how the fibroid(s) ablation will be conducted during the focalized ultrasound procedure.
Focalized ultrasound for fibroid ablation.
A guided focused ultrasound is subsequently used, delivering high intensity waves on the fibroids. This raises the temperature of the fibroid cells high enough to destroy them. The body then naturally absorbs all dead cells.
Magnetic resonance for the supervision and management of the treatment.
The guided focused ultrasound treatment is supervised through a magnetic resonance device showing the fibroid in a three-dimensional view. It reports in real time the temperature rise of the cells. Because of this ability to visualize what is being treated in the patient’s body, this is how radiologists accurately guide the destruction of the fibroids.
The procedure lasts an average of four hours. The patient is received and mildly sedated so that she can relax while remaining conscious all the time. Next, she lies prone on an especially designed bed that will ensure comfort. Then, her lower back is introduced into the magnetic resonance device.
Once settled in place, the equipment starts to ablate the fibroid(s) through 20-second ultrasound wave emissions (sonications) with 1-to-1.5-minute intervals of resting cooling phases. The patient can communicate with the doctors by means of sound equipment, and has a special button she can press on whenever she feels pain or has anything else to report.
When the session has finished, the patient gets up and rests until the sedation effects have worn off (about one or two hours later). She may go home afterwards and resume her daily life the very next day or within 36 hours at most after the treatment.
What are the advantages?
The Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit based in Médica Sur is the only center in Mexico where ExAblate 2000 is available.
This procedure offers the following advantages:
- It preserves the uterus (thus pregnancy is possible in the future).
- There’s a highly significant reduction of the ailments produced by the fibroids and lighter/shorter menstrual bleedings.
- It’s a non-invasive outpatient procedure. There is no need for any hospital stay and it does not involve any external agents.
- The overall procedure usually takes between five to six hours. Part of that time is dedicated to the treatment itself and the remainder is for the patient to rest until the sedation wears off.
- The patient is able to resume her normal daily activities within 24 to 36 hours.
- There are no side effects in general; if present, these are minimal and superficial.
- Its cost is highly competitive, in comparison with other treatments.
- Most important insurance companies cover it.
- These advantages place ExAblate 2000 as the best option for modern and active women who cannot afford spending a long time in recovery, or for those who fear the consequences of surgery, such as scars and hormonal changes, or who want to keep open the possibility of getting pregnant in the future.
When fibroids are the agents causing infertility, ExAblate renders future pregnancy possible once the fibroids have been ablated, because the uterus is preserved and the overall negative symptomatology recedes.
How to make an informed decision
The ExAblate procedure has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and by the Ministry of Health in Mexico, as an effective therapy for the treatment of uterine fibroids, when the patient wishes to preserve her uterus.
This procedure is currently available in very few countries, and the Unit of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Médica Sur is the only institution in Mexico to offer it exclusively.
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Please download the patient consultation guide so that you and your physician can make an informed decision about the most convenient treatment for you.Medica Sur will offer a discount for a limited time on the ExAblate procedure, which includes the two phases prior to the fibroid ablation.