{"id":19225,"date":"2023-03-29T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T18:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fusfoundation.org\/?post_type=sw_disease_condition&#038;p=19225"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:41:41","slug":"gestational-trophoblastic-disease","status":"publish","type":"sw_disease_condition","link":"https:\/\/www.fusfoundation.org\/diseases-and-conditions\/gestational-trophoblastic-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Gestational Trophoblastic Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-focused-ultrasound-therapy\">Focused Ultrasound Therapy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused ultrasound is a therapeutic technology that could improve the quality of life and decrease the cost of care for patients with gestational trophoblastic disease. This novel technology focuses beams of ultrasound energy precisely and accurately on targets deep in the body without damaging surrounding normal tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How it Works<\/strong><br>Where the beams converge, focused ultrasound produces therapeutic thermal ablation, which destroys the target tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary options for treatment of gestational trophoblastic disease include invasive surgery with probable loss of the potential for future pregnancies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For certain patients, focused ultrasound could provide a non-invasive alternative to surgery with less risk of complications and lower cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Advantages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Focused ultrasound is noninvasive, so it does not carry added concerns like surgical wound healing or infection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Focused ultrasound can reach the desired target without damaging surrounding tissue.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It can be repeated, if necessary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clinical Trials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the present time, there are no clinical trials recruiting patients for focused ultrasound treatment of gestational trophoblastic disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foundation updates these pages regularly, but with the increasing number of clinical trials, we want to be sure that our audience has the latest information available. Therefore, we also added the website search information for the above trials. If you click <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicaltrials.gov\/search?cond=Gestational%20Trophoblastic%20Disease&amp;term=focused%20ultrasound&amp;aggFilters=status:not%20rec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>, it will take you to the latest information available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clinicaltrials.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.clinicaltrials.gov\/<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Regulatory Approval and Reimbursement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Focused ultrasound treatment for gestational trophoblastic disease is not yet approved by regulatory bodies or covered by medical insurance companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notable Papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Qu D, Chen Y, Jiang J, Shi Q, Zhou H, Wang Z. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36522625\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\"><strong>Long-term outcome of ultrasound-guided focused ultrasound ablation for gestational trophoblastic neoplasia in the cesarean scar: a case report<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> BMC Womens Health. 2022 Dec 15;22(1):522. doi: 10.1186\/s12905-022-02114-0. 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