CORPUS CHRISTI — About 200,000 women have their uterus removed every year due to severe symptoms and one in four women of reproductive age suffer from fibroids. Caroline — who asked us not to mention ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the United States, one in three women undergoes hysterectomy by age 60 years, according to the CDC. Previous ...

This content is sponsored by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Many women experience things like bloating, pelvic pain and pressure, constipation or very heavy periods and may not know the cause.

The article in The Journal regarding uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) is a great option for fibroids that plague women of all ages. If you have fibroids, they can cause pain, constipation, pain with ...

When fibroids — benign tumors that grow on uterine walls — lead to symptoms like heavy bleeding and pain, many doctors recommend hysterectomy. In fact, 30 percent of the 600,000 hysterectomies ...

"The first surprise was the precision and effectiveness of embolization on the possibility of devascularizing a large number of fibroids and the ability of the uterus to heal favorably as well as the ...

Symptomatic fibroids are treated traditionally by hysterectomy or myomectomy. However, in recent years uterine artery embolization has come to the fore as a successful alternative to surgical ...

A minimally-invasive procedure has been shown to successfully treat uterine fibroids while requiring little downtime for the patient and preserving the woman’s uterus. Called uterine fibroid ...

LOS ANGELES Christina Simon is working hard to learn the ins and outs and ups and downs of tennis. For more than two years, she played through the pain of uterine fibroids. She's not alone. As many as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Reintervention rates were higher for hysteroscopic myomectomy, uterine artery embolization and endometrial ...

UTERINE FIBROIDS ARE COMMON, NON-CANCEROUS GROWTHS THAT DEVELOP IN OR AROUND THE UTERUS. THEY OFTEN DON’T CAUSE ANY SYMPTOMS, BUT WHEN THEY DO, THEY CAN BE DEBILITATING. IN THOSE CASES, WOMEN OFTEN ...

A minimally-invasive procedure has been shown to successfully treat uterine fibroids while requiring little downtime for the patient and preserving the woman's uterus. "This is another treatment ...