Is the Argon Plasma ESU effective in Treating Polyps?

Is the Argon Plasma effective in Treating Polyps？

      For patients with gastrointestinal polyps, surgery is often given for treatment in clinical practice. In the past, conventional open surgery was commonly used in clinical practice for treatment, which had good therapeutic effects. However, this surgical method has a long surgical time, and the surgical operation and anesthesia stimulation can cause serious damage to the patient's body tissue, increasing the overall surgical risk and causing severe physiological pain in patients after surgery, which is more likely to lead to postoperative complications.

      Endoscopic argon knife treatment has a shorter surgical time and higher safety compared to conventional open resection. As a new type of non-contact coagulation therapy, this surgical method usually maintains a coagulation depth of 0.5-3.0 mm and forms a conductive argon ionomer, which has a more precise hemostatic effect and can effectively prevent probe adhesion, perforation, and other phenomena during the treatment process. During the surgery, clinical doctors set the argon gas flow rate and power based on the location and volume of the patient's lesion, and promptly remove polyps at the patient's lesion site. 

     In this study, patients in the endoscopic group had shorter surgical and hospitalization times than those in the open group, and had lower intraoperative blood output than those in the open group. Endoscopic argon plasam

electrosurgical unit treatment has a good clinical therapeutic effect, which is helpful for the prognosis recovery of patients. Research has shown that using electrosurgical unit and endoscopic argon plasma electrosurgical unit ESU to treat gastrointestinal polyps respectively, the results show that the effective rate of patients in the endoscopic group is 95%, higher than 64% in the open group, and the recurrence rate is only 5%, lower than 22% in the open group. Surgical treatment of gastrointestinal polyps can damage the gastrointestinal mucosa, leading to the expression and release of inflammatory factors in the tissue, thereby stimulating relevant signaling pathways.

      In this study, patients in the endoscopic group had serum IL-6, IL-8, and IL-1 levels one week after surgery β The level was lower than that of the open group, and the proportion of patients with moderate to severe pain was lower than that of the open group, indicating that endoscopic surgery has a significant effect on minimally invasive treatment, with mild inflammatory damage to patients and reduced pain. Endoscopic argon plasma electrosurgical unit treatment for digestive tract polyps has more advantages in treating flat or wide base polyps that cannot or are difficult to perform snare resection. Due to its self limiting coagulation depth, automatic argon ion flow search for lesions, and multi-directional advantages, there is no need to consider the possibility of perforation and bleeding; In addition, for pedunculated polyps smaller than 1 cm, use an argon knife for a few seconds before the polyps solidify and disappear.

     In summary, endoscopic argon knife treatment for gastrointestinal polyps can effectively reduce the level of interleukin indicators in patients, alleviate inflammatory damage and pain, reduce the incidence of postoperative complications, improve patient efficacy, and reduce recurrence rate. It can be used as a surgical resection method for patients with gastrointestinal polyps. In addition, in order to effectively prevent patients with gastrointestinal polyps from developing cancer, medical staff should do a good job in health education, so that they can fully understand the causes of gastrointestinal polyps and the adverse consequences that may arise if not treated in a timely manner. Regular health examinations should be conducted, and once discomfort is found, medical treatment should be immediately sought at the hospital to avoid further development of the disease.