| It is now considered a safe and highly effective nonsurgical treatment of women with symptomatic uterine fibroid tumors. |
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| In the study, researchers used a technique known as microarray analysis to determine the activity levels of genes in fibroid tumors. |
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| This blockage causes fibroid muscle cells to degenerate and form scar tissue, which causes fibroids to shrink. |
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| One way to treat women with fibroids is called uterine fibroid embolization. |
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| One patient has died after fibroid embolization because of severe infection. |
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| The indications are mainly a single subserous or interstitial fibroid which is mobile and measures 8 cm or less. |
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| This is the case, for example, when Doppler ultrasound has shown a fibroid measuring at least 7 cm and which is wellvascularised. |
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| Sometimes, in Minnesota, Augustus ran into women who had undergone fibroid surgery, or rehabbed injured knees. |
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| Then Ms. Hedgepeth became a patient, too, developing anemia and nearly hemorrhaging as a result of fibroid tumors in her uterus. |
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| The researchers hypothesize that the underexpression of these genes in uterine fibroids might explain why fibroid tissue does not contract, but instead, grows abnormally. |
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| This blocks up these small blood vessels so that the fibroid is starved of its blood supply. |
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| This leaflet should answer some of your questions about fibroid embolization. |
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| The operative difficulties are connected with the size and degree to which the fibroid has developed interstitially. |
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| A specially trained doctor called an interventional radiologist will do the fibroid embolization. |
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| Most patients get a slight fever after the procedure, which may be due to degeneration of the fibroid. |
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| Evidence also exists that the incidence of miscarriage may be increased in women with an intramural fibroid having in vitro fertilisation treatment. |
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| Two phases are sometimes used for resection of this kind of fibroid when there is a large interstitial component. |
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| The same technique is repeated on the other side if the fibroid is vascularised by both uterine arteries. |
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| Uterine fibroid embolisation is a non-surgical procedure which kills the benign growths by cutting off their blood supply. |
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| Uterine fibroid, also called uterine leiomyomata or uterine myoma, benign tumour that originates from the smooth muscle wall of the uterus and may be single but usually occurs in clusters. |
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| For the symptomatic fibroid, hysterectomy offers a definitive solution. |
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| I recognize that fibroid embolization is a relatively new procedure and accept that the long-term benefit of this treatment has not yet been studied. |
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| Another indication that Doppler ultrasound has brought to the fore is the subject of more debate, i.e. hypervascularisation of the fibroid, which explains its growth and which will result in complications requiring treatment. |
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| The radiologist will use the X-ray equipment to make sure that the catheter and the wire are then moved into the correct position, into the other arteries that feed the fibroid. |
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| Arteriography is performed at this stage documenting the vascularity and size of the fibroid uterus as well as satisfactory positioning of the catheter. |
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| Reductions in alkaline hematin levels were associated with fibroid shrinkage. |
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| Bulun also directs the Uterine Leiomyoma Research Center Program, the only NIH-funded fibroid research program in the world. |
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| But a week later she was given bombshell news that tests on the fibroid revealed it contained a rare form of cancer called leiomyosarcoma. |
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| The study's authors attributed the reduction in fibroid size from EGCG due to an inhibitory effect on leiomyoma tumor cell proliferation and apotosis induction. |
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| Submucous leiomyomas are the most problematic type of fibroid and have been associated with abnormal uterine bleeding, infertility, and other clinical issues. |
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| While a fibroid is distinct from the uterine wall and can be removed, adenomyoma cannot be removed without actually removing the involved uterine muscle. |
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| Fibroid tumors, also known as leiomyomas or myomas, are benign tumors of the uterus. |
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