02 Feb 2016
MyomasCLINICAL PICTURE OF MYOMAS AND HOW TO TREAT THEM
CLINIC PRESENTATION
Heavy, prolonged, or painful menstrual bleeding is typically seen in patients with symptomatic uterine fibroids. Depending on their size, location, and number, there are also symptoms due to bulging, such as bladder or bowel malfunction, abdominal protrusion, painful menstruations, noncyclical pelvic pain, pain during sexual intercourse, infertility, and recurrent miscarriages.
While some patients with uterine fibroids do not report any discomfort, patients with symptoms may present with severe anemia, significant deterioration and reduced quality of life over the years. Medical publications around the world report an incidence of fibroids of between 60% and 70%.
In women between the ages of 30 and 50, the symptoms of fibroids become clinically relevant in approximately one third of them.
TREATMENT OPTIONS
Uterine Fibroid Embolization (UFE) is a medical procedure of radiological interventionism already scientifically established. It is a safe and efficient treatment regardless of the number and size of the fibroids.
The procedure has demonstrated its technical safety, clinical efficacy, and cost-effectiveness. The positive aspects are its extremely low rate of major complications, rapid recovery, no surgical risks and the advantage par excellence is that the patient preserves her uterus and her ovaries remain with normal functions.
Unlike hormonal treatments, UFE doesn’t use hormonal medications and therefore doesn’t present side effects in the patient, doesn’t alter her metabolism while conserving her weight, doesn’t present spots on the skin and doesn’t have risks in the presence of breast lesions.
Due to the fact that the UFE has access to treat all the fibroids the patient presents, the treatment is definitive, no fibroid, regardless of the number of fibroids, is left without treatment, this advantage avoids the need to have new procedures for untreated fibroids, common situation in the treatment called myomectomy.