Alternatives to hysterectomy: focus on global endometrial ablation, uterine fibroid embolization, and magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound

DW Stovall - Menopause, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… blood vessels, and ultrasound exablative treatment of leiomyomas. This article will focus on
… to treat uterine bleeding: global endometrial ablation (GEA), uterine fibroid embolization (…

Reintervention rates after myomectomy, endometrial ablation, and uterine artery embolization for patients with uterine fibroids

MR Davis, AM Soliman, J Castelli-Haley… - Journal of Women's …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
… than hysterectomy, including myomectomy, endometrial ablation (EA), and uterine artery
embolization (UAE), in order to conserve their uterus, avoid prolonged recovery times, or …

Uterine artery embolization compared with high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation for the treatment of symptomatic uterine myomas: a systematic review and meta …

L Liu, T Wang, B Lei - Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology, 2021 - Elsevier
… We excluded 2 articles [24,25] that did not include an outcome measure of interest and 2
articles [26,27] that involved endometrial ablation rather than HIFU ablation. Finally, 8 articles …

Global endometrial ablation

GA Vilos - Journal SOGC, 2000 - Elsevier
… bleeding, which is often an embarrassing and debilitating condition for many women,
and which, together with uterine fibroids, accounts for up to 75 percent of all hysterectomies …

A systematic review of minimally invasive treatments for uterine fibroid-related bleeding

J Zhang, VA Go, JF Blanck, B Singh - Reproductive Sciences, 2021 - Springer
… -related bleeding controlled in 95.9% of patients who received endometrial ablation with …
The greatest proportion of studies covered in this review focused on uterine artery embolization. …

[HTML][HTML] Nonresective treatments for uterine fibroids: a systematic review of uterine and fibroid volume reductions

M Taheri, L Galo, C Potts, K Sakhel… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
uterine fibroids. This has led to a greater use of nonresective treatments such as uterine artery
embolization … and more recently, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of fibroids. This systematic …

Current concepts in uterine fibroid embolization

JC Bulman, SM Ascher, JB Spies - Radiographics, 2012 - pubs.rsna.org
… , abdominal or laparoscopic myomectomy, endometrial ablation, focused US, and UFE (6). …
Finally, bilateral catheterization allows global assessment of uterine flow and enables better …

[HTML][HTML] Uterine artery embolization, surgery and high intensity focused ultrasound in the treatment of uterine fibroids: a network meta-analysis

H Gao, T Li, D Fu, J Wei - Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
treatment (eg, HIFU, HY, MY and endometrial ablation). In the … therapeutic treatment (eg,
UAE, HY, MY and endometrial ablation)… (following HY) and endometrial ablation (following MY). …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing focused ultrasound and uterine artery embolization for uterine fibroids—rationale and design of the Fibroid Interventions: Reducing Symptoms …

EVA Bouwsma, GK Hesley, DA Woodrum, AL Weaver… - Fertility and sterility, 2011 - Elsevier
… It is a global uterine therapy treating the whole uterus and not just … , and endometrial polyps.
Women who are candidates for the levonorgestrel intrauterine system, endometrial ablation, …

Endometrial ablation in the management of abnormal uterine bleeding

P Laberge, N Leyland, A Murji, C Fortin… - Journal of Obstetrics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Endometrial ablation is a safe and effective minimally invasive surgical procedure that has
… to medical treatment or hysterectomy to treat abnormal uterine bleeding in select cases. (I) …