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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: uterine fibroids + fibroids + fibroid  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

UAE for fibroids "more cost-effective" than hysterectomy
Medicexchange, UK -
Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is much more cost-efficient than hysterectomy for the treatment of uterine fibroids, an analysis from the Netherlands has ...
Exercise cuts risk of fibroids
Toronto Star,  Canada - Jul 29, 2008
Working out an hour a day (including walking time) could cut your risk of getting uterine fibroids by 40 per cent, compared with women who fit in less than ...

WELT ONLINE
BioSphere Medical Reports 2008 Second Quarter Financial Results
WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jul 23, 2008
BioSphere's principal focus is the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids using a procedure called uterine fibroid embolization, or UFE. ...BSMD
Treating uterine tumors can be done without invasive procedures
Aurora Beacon News, IL - Jul 30, 2008
For women suffering from symptomatic uterine fibroid disease, one such procedure called uterine fibroid embolization provides an exciting new treatment ...
The You Docs: What makes every month easier for women
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jul 30, 2008
Uterine fibroids are benign tumors (excess tissue) that develop in the wall of your uterus. Even though they're not cancerous, they can be troublemakers. ...
BioSphere Medical to Present at BMO Capital Markets Focus on ...
MarketWatch - Jul 29, 2008
BioSphere's principal focus is the treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids using a procedure called uterine fibroid embolization, or UFE. ...BSMD

Nigerian Tribune
That excessive menstrual flow could be uterine fibroid - By Ronke ...
Nigerian Tribune, Nigeria - Jul 26, 2008
Approximately, one in 800-1000 babies are born with the disorder. Down syndrome (DS) is the most common cause of mental retardation and malformation in a ...

Best Syndication
Fibroid Tumors and the Danger to Fertility
Best Syndication, CA - Jul 17, 2008
The uterine segments of the fallopian tubes could be obstructed or distorted by fibroids. When infertile women present with uterine fibroids every effort ...

Nigerian Tribune
That excessive menstrual flow could be uterine fibroid
Nigerian Tribune, Nigeria - Jul 19, 2008
In her words, uterine fibroid is an abnormal growth in the muscle of the uterus (womb), which is not synonymous with cancer, as many might have wrongly ...
Repros Therapeutics Inc. Announces That Initial Findings for ...
FOXBusiness - Jul 18, 2008
We are also developing Proellex as a short course pre-surgical treatment for anemia associated with excessive menstrual bleeding related to uterine fibroids ...RPRX
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Transcatheter uterine artery embolisation to treat large uterine fibroids -
EA Bradley, JF Reidy, RG Forman, J Jarosz, PR … - BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1998 - Blackwell Synergy
... Free Content. Full Text. Transcatheter uterine artery embolisation to treat large
uterine fibroids. ... 2 Sutton CJG. Treatment of large uterine fibroids. ...

Preliminary Experience With Uterine Artery Embolization for Uterine Fibroids. -
SC Goodwin, S Vendantham, B McLucas, AE Forno, R … - Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1998 - obgynsurvey.com
... Preliminary Experience With Uterine Artery Embolization for Uterine Fibroids. ...
Minimally invasive management of uterine fibroids. ...

Initial results from uterine fibroid embolization for symptomatic leiomyomata -
JB Spies - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 1999 - Soc Intervent Radiol
... PURPOSE: To evaluate the safety and short-term efficacy of uterine fibroid
embolization (UFE) in patients with symptomatic uterine fibroids. ...

Uterine fibroids -
EA Stewart - The Lancet, 2001 - Elsevier
... Seminar. Uterine fibroids. ... Uterine leiomyomas (fibroids or myomas), benign tumours
of the human uterus, are the single most common indication for hysterectomy. ...

Risk factors for uterine fibroids: reduced risk associated with oral contraceptives. -
RK Ross, MC Pike, MP Vessey, D Bull, D Yeates, JT … - British Medical Journal (Clinical research ed.), 1986 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... Copyright notice. Risk factors for uterine fibroids: reduced risk associated with
oral contraceptives. ... On the origin and development of uterine fibroids. ...

Uterine fibroids: A clinical review -
BJ VOLLENHOVEN, AS LAWRENCE, DL HEALY - BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1990 - Blackwell Synergy
... Uterine fibroids: A clinical review ?3. J. VOLLENHOVEN, AS LAWRENCE, DL HEALY Uterine
fibroids, or Iciomyomata, are the com- monest tumours found in women. ...

The Impact of Uterine Fibroid Embolization on Resumption of Menses and Ovarian Function -
HB Chrisman, MB Saker, RK Ryu, AA Nemcek Jr, MV … - Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 2000 - jvir.highwire.org
... All patients were believed to be premenopausal and had been evaluated by an attending
gynecologist to confirm the diagnosis of uterine fibroids and to exclude ...

Uterine artery embolisation for symptomatic fibroids: clinical results in 400 women with imaging … -
WJ Walker, JP Pelage - BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2002 - Blackwell Synergy
... is a long established technique in the treatment of abdominal and pelvic haemorrhage
but has only recently been used to treat uterine fibroids 1 -5 . Until ...

… Part 2. Uterine fibroid reduction and symptom relief after uterine artery embolization for fibroids -
G Pron, J Bennett, A Common, J Wall, M Asch, K … - Fertility and Sterility, 2003 - Elsevier
... To date, there have been few if any multicenter studies evaluating UAE in the treatment
of symptomatic uterine fibroids. ... Fibroid uterine volume reduction. ...

Pre-operative GnRH analogue therapy before hysterectomy or myomectomy for uterine fibroids (Cochrane … -
A Lethaby, B Vollenhoven, M Sowter - The Cochrane Library, 2002 - medscape.com
Pre-operative GnRH analogue therapy before hysterectomy or myomectomy for uterine
fibroids. Updated: 04/01/2003. from Cochrane Review Abstracts Posted 04/01/2003 ...

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Mayo Clinic study finds focused ultrasound treatment of uterine fibroids long term symptom relief

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A noninvasive, outpatient treatment for noncancerous uterine tumors provides sustained relief from symptoms, according to a new Mayo Clinic led collaborative study.

The study of this innovative treatment approach -- called magnetic resonance imaging guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) -- also shows that the more completely tumors are destroyed by focused ultrasound, the more durable the symptom relief. In addition, the incidence of severe side effects is low. Combined, these results produce an overall improved quality of life. The report by Mayo and its collaborators, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Focused Ultrasound for Uterine Fibroid Group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, appears in the Aug. 1 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology (http://www.greenjournal.org/future/110.2.shtml).

Significance of the Mayo Clinic Collaboration

This new study examined more endpoints and follows women for a longer period after treatment than previous studies of the effects of focused ultrasound to treat uterine fibroid tumors. For example, the current study followed patients post-treatment for twice as long -- 24 months versus 12 months -- than earlier studies. It also followed a patient group that was more than twice as large -- 359 women versus 160 women. The results are therefore stronger than those from earlier studies, and more clinically relevant in their potential to:
  • improve patient care by decreasing the need for repeat tumor-removal procedures.

  • keep health care costs down, given that treating fibroid tumors constitutes a significant health care expenditure, particularly if it involves major surgery such as hysterectomy, or requires multiple, repeat procedures of the traditionally used noninvasive therapies that include abdominal and laparoscopic tumor removal, or uterine artery embolization.

Explains Mayo Clinic reproductive endocrinologist Elizabeth Stewart, M.D., the study’s lead author: “Up to one-third of women who undergo alternatives to hysterectomy to treat fibroids experience recurrence of fibroids, so demonstrating the durability of focused ultrasound is important. Our study does this by examining rates of subsequent surgery for fibroid tumor symptoms and other key outcomes such as uterine shrinkage. Finally, our study demonstrates that the more completely you treat the fibroids, the better the outcomes are.”

Evidence indicates that this novel technology, in the hands of experienced care-giving teams, is an effective, durable treatment for uterine fibroid tumors that safely produces sustained relief of symptoms, Dr. Stewart says.

About Focused Ultrasound

Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound is a novel noninvasive technology for the outpatient treatment of fibroid uterine tumors. This treatment has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2004. Mayo Clinic was among the first in the U.S to offer the procedure.

Unlike other alternatives to hysterectomy, focused ultrasound does not depend on the insertion of devices, needles or catheters into the body. High-energy sound waves are directed precisely through the abdominal wall to targeted fibroid tissues. Thermal energy destroys the growths by coagulating the blood supply, while preserving healthy tissue. MRI images help physicians visualize the tissue volume and location and gauge the temperature of treated tissue.

About Uterine Fibroid Tumors

Uterine fibroid tumors -- also called leiomyomas -- are common noncancerous growths of the uterus. When symptomatic, they can cause severe abdominal and leg pain, excessive menstrual bleeding and abdominal bloating. In the past, they have been treated by surgical removal of the uterus via hysterectomy, or through noninvasive techniques such as abdominal and laparoscopic tumor removal, or uterine artery embolization. However, those approaches are associated with elevated rates of tumor regrowth, and need for repeated treatments.

About the Study

All 359 women in the study were typical uterine fibroid tumor patients with severe fibroid tumor symptoms as measured by a scientifically valid quality-of-life measurement tool. The mean patient age was mid-to-late 40s. Treatment at the various sites was guided by the same treatment protocol. Patients were scheduled for follow-up physical exams at six, 12 and 24 months after treatment.

Collaboration and Support

In addition to Dr. Stewart and Bobbie Gostout, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic, the key team members included Jaron Ravinovici, M.D., Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; Kyun Kim, M.D., Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.; Lesley Regan, M.D., St. Marys Hospital and Imperial College of Medicine, London; and Clare Tempany, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The group’s work was funded by the Insightec, Ltd., Haifa, Israel.

To obtain the latest news releases from Mayo Clinic, go to www.mayoclinic.org/news. MayoClinic.com (www.mayoclinic.com) is available as a resource for your health stories.

Contact: Amy Tieder
507-284-5005 (days)
507-284-2511 (evenings)
e-mail: newsbureau@mayo.edu
 
 
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