Uterine artery embolization versus surgical treatment in patients with symptomatic uterine fibroids: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data.

Objective: Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumours in women of the reproductive age. Symptoms of heavy menstrual bleeding, abdominal discomfort and infertility may seriously affect a woman's quality of life. Uterine artery embolization is a safe and effective alternative treatment to hysterectomy or myomectomy for symptomatic uterine fibroids.

Association between magnetic resonance imaging findings of uterine leiomyomas and symptoms demanding treatment.

Purpose: To evaluate the association between magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) derived uterine and leiomyoma characteristics and symptoms demanding treatment.

Materials And Methods: Consecutive patients (n=122; mean age, 47.5 years) with symptomatic leiomyomas participated in a prospective study.

[Obstetric and gynecologic embolizations].

Postpartum embolization to decrease the maternal mortality rate and postpartum hysterectomies. An interventional radiologist performs the embolization at the obstetrician's request, when conventional means have failed to stop the bleeding. This will efficiently stop the bleeding.

Uterine artery embolisation versus hysterectomy for leiomyomas: primary and 2-year follow-up results of a randomised prospective clinical trial.

Objective: To compare uterine artery embolisation (UAE) and hysterectomy for the treatment of leiomyomas at 2-year follow-up in a prospective, randomised, single-centre study.

Methods: Fifty-seven symptomatic patients were randomised to UAE (n = 27) or hysterectomy (n = 30). Complications, recovery, reinterventions and satisfaction with treatment were recorded.

Preinterventional quantitative magnetic resonance imaging predicts uterus and leiomyoma size reduction after uterine artery embolization.

Purpose: To investigate the relationship between magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures and uterus and leiomyoma size reductions after uterine artery embolization (UAE).

Materials And Methods: Fifty-two women with leiomyomas underwent selective UAEs. Uterine and dominant leiomyoma sizes were measured with preinterventional MRI and a 6-month follow-up MRI.

Pain after uterine fibroid embolisation is associated with the severity of myometrial ischaemia on magnetic resonance imaging.

The purpose of the study was to evaluate uterine ischaemia after uterine artery embolisation (UAE) using magnetic resonance imaging and the role of myometrial and fibroid ischaemia in the pathogenesis of post-procedural pain. T1-weighted gradient echo imaging before and after contrast agent was performed on 62 women before and 24 h after UAE. We assessed the severity (mild, moderate, severe) of myometrial ischaemia, and the percentage and volume of ischaemic tissue in myometrium and fibroids.