Professor Enda McVeigh, Jersey
A mature and professional clinician with more than 30 years of experience in the field. His practice comprises three main areas of interest: Fertility, Surgery and Women’s Health.
Women’s Health
Professor Mcveigh is an expert in advising about fertility, period problems, contraception and menopausal issues. When problems arise that are not within his own skill set he is happy to refer to other colleagues with appropriate expertise for the benefit of his patients.
Assisted conception
Sometimes due to age or if couples are anxious to conceive as soon as possible, assisted conception will usually reduce the time to conception, provided the woman has a satisfactory egg reserve.
Assisted conception refers to any laboratory procedure designed to improve the chance of conception. This may involve intrauterine insemination (IUI), in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) which is used where there is a significant male factor. Assisted conception also includes egg donation and IVF surrogacy.
If you are prepared to compromise and consider any option, we can almost guarantee that you will be able to have a family.
Professor McVeigh is able to offer the following assisted conception treatments through satellite arrangements with licensed centres in the UK and the USA.
Egg Freezing
Freeze your biological clock in time
For a variety of reasons, the age at which women have their children is rising. Unfortunately, we know that fertility declines with age and the rate of miscarriage also increases.
Freezing your eggs whilst you are still young offers you a chance to avoid this effect of ageing on both the numbers of eggs and the quality or fertility potential. It provides an insurance policy that can improve your chance of having a child of your own if your fertility has declined by the time you are ready to start trying for a baby.
The unarguable fact is that the younger you are when you freeze your eggs, the more chance you will have of a successful pregnancy when you come to use them. Freezing your eggs whilst you are still young allows you to act as an egg donor to your future self.
Surgery
Professor McVeigh is a leading expert in minimal access gynaecological surgery. He has been at the forefront of a number of major advances in this field of medicine during the last 30 years. He has been a pioneer in the laparoscopic management of endometriosis and set up the national endometriosis referral centre in Oxford. laparoscopic myomectomy.
Minimal access gynaecological surgery includes both laparoscopic surgery and hysteroscopic surgery. At laparoscopy, a telescope of 5 or 10mm in diameter is introduced through the umbilicus or belly button, after the abdominal cavity has been filled with carbon dioxide gas to create space in which to operate. Two or three smaller incisions are made along the bikini line through which instruments are introduced with which the surgery is performed. At hysteroscopy, a smaller telescope of between 2 and 4mm in diameter is introduced into the uterine cavity (the inside of the womb) through the cervix or neck of the womb avoiding the need for any incisions on the abdomen at all.
Recovery from minimal access surgery is usually much faster than recovery from open surgery, and most women will go home on the day of surgery. The absence of a large incision on the abdomen allows the patient to mobilise more quickly and so reduces the incidence of some complications such as post-operative chest infections, wound infections, hernias and thrombosis. This also means a woman can return to work and normal activities much more quickly.
The procedures for which Professor McVeigh is best recognised are complex operations on the uterus to improve the chance of conceiving or to relieve pain and heavy bleeding. These include
Diagnostic hysteroscopy and laparoscopy
Laparoscopic Myomectomy
Laparoscopic sub-total and total hysterectomy
Laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy
Laparoscopic removal of endometriosis
Hysteroscopic myomectomy
