MISSION

To provide the best and most advanced medical services in a compassionate and caring environment.

WELCOME

  Dr. Guy Blaudeau

Dr. Guy Blaudeau came to Bessemer in 1976 at the request of the hospital administration to create the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was Chairman of the department and member of the Executive Committee for the next 15 years. In his 30 years of practice he has delivered close to 7,000 babies. Some of the babies he delivers now belong to patients that were themselves delivered by Dr. G. Blaudeau. His expertise in infertility and tubal reconstruction has allowed many infertile patients to experience the joy and thrill of motherhood.

Dr. Guy Blaudeau introduced minimally invasive surgery [laparascopy] in this area in 1976. He has kept abreast of all the advances in Obstetrics and Gynecology and he is one of the very few, in the South East, to perform laparascopic supra cervical hysterectomies. Dr. Guy Blaudeau is an expert in all Obstetrical and Gynecological procedures including but not limited to:

OBSTETRICS

• Management of pregnancy - uncomplicated or High Risk - Toxemia, Gestational diabetes, Twins
• Incompetent cervix
• Vaginal deliveries - spontaneous or assisted
• Cesarean sections and cesarean hysterectomies

GYNECOLOGY

• Hysterectomies - abdominal or vaginal
• Vaginal surgery: Cystocele [bladder drop] and rectocele repairs. Pelvic floor reconstruction
• Vulvar surgeries
• Sterilization procedures.
• Minimally invasive procedures:
  • Laparascopic supracervical hysterectomies
  • Laparascopic myomectomies
  • Laparascopic ovarian cystectomies
  • Laparascopic treatment of ectopic pregnancies.

UROGYNECOLOGY

• Treatment of bladder incontinence [loss of control] T.V.T.
• Bladder suspensions
• Marshall Marchetti and Burch procedures

INFERTILITY

• Reconstruction of tubes - after tubal ligation or infection
• Fimbrioplasties
• Minimally invasive surgery and laser surgery for: Endometriosis, Polycystic Ovaries, Myomectomies

OFFICES

Riverchase Obstetrics Gynecology and Infertility
130 Riverchase Parkway East
Birmingham, Alabama 35244
Telephone: 205 988-8294

UAB Medical West
Professional Building Suite 501
Bessemer, Alabama 35022
Telephone: 205 481-7550

Women's Clinic
205 Medical Center Drive
Clanton, Alabama 35045
Telephone: 205 280-8977

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS

• Brookwood Medical Center
• Healthsouth Medical Center
• Shelby Baptist Medical Center
• UAB Medical West

INSURANCES

All major insurances - Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Health Care, Aetna, Cigna, Viva and most others are accepted.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS

In Obstetrics, organ prolapse and urinary stress incontinence, which are the long term complications of vaginal deliveries are forcing us to reevaluate the management of child birth. With the life expectancy of women reaching 90 and soon 100, the integrity of the pelvic structures is becoming a major concern. Some countries—especially in South America—are already offering elective cesarean section rather than vaginal delivery. There is no doubt that vaginal deliveries will damage the pelvic structures. Their section rates are presently around 60% compared to our 16%.

In Gynecology the great majority of surgeries are now performed with the help of laparascopes. They are referred as minimally invasive surgeries. The large disfiguring incision and scar of the abdominal hysterectomy—except for the few special cases—has become a horror of the past. The new laparascopic supracervical hysterectomy can be performed for most of the conditions requiring a hysterectomy except for cancer. This operation is done through 3 or 4 small incisions [less than half an inch]. The patient can usually go home the same day or, at the latest, the next morning instead of three days in the hospital and the total recovery time is two weeks instead of six. Since there are no large incisions, the post operative pain is minimal. Removal of fibroids, ovarian cysts, ectopic pregnancies, etc., are now also performed with the same techniques.

Following these fantastic improvements in gynecological surgeries, a new procedure for the surgical treatment of urinary stress incontinence (when a lady wets her panties upon coughing, laughing, or sneezing) has completely revolutionized the field of urogynecology. The classical repairs required the patient to stay 2 or 3 days in the hospital and very often had to go home with a catheter. Today, with this new procedure—called T.V.T. for Tension-free Vaginal Tape—the patient goes home the same day or, at the latest, the next morning and without a catheter. The success rate is practically a 100%. There is very little postoperative pain, if any, and no recovery pain. The great majority of patients can go back to work the very next day.

In Infertility, the use of microscopes and very fine suture provides a 70 to 80% success rate at getting pregnant after a tubal reconstruction—let it be after a tubal ligation or infection.

Revised 5/1/05