Objectives: To show the advantages of transcervical radiofrequency ablation (TRFA) in high-risk patients with bleeding disorder.
Material And Methods: It is a retrospective analysis. The study included only patients with known pre-existing conditions (obesity, cardiac and neurological disease, coagulation disorder, anaemia) or post-surgical conditions who were treated with the Sonata® System for fibroid-related bleeding complaints at Academic Hospital Cologne Weyertal between January 2015 and March 2021.
Objective: To describe pregnancy outcomes in women who conceived after undergoing transcervical fibroid ablation (TFA) as treatment for symptomatic uterine fibroids.
Materials And Methods: TFA was used to treat symptomatic uterine fibroids with radiofrequency energy, both under clinical trial protocol and commercial usage in hospitals in Europe, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and the United States. All women who reported pregnancies to their physicians after undergoing TFA with the Sonata System and provided consent for use of their data were included.
Uterine fibroids are one of the most common diseases in female patients, lead mainly to bleeding disorders and lower abdominal pain, and reduce the chance of having children. In recent years we have seen a trend towards more and more pharmacotherapies and minimally invasive organ-preserving treatments. One novel and innovative procedure for an organ-preserving treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids is the transcervical ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation (TRFA).
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February 2022
Introduction: Fibroids are the most common benign uterine tumors. Transcervical radiofrequency ablation with the Sonata® System offers a minimally invasive, incisionfree, organ-preserving therapy, with intraoperative visualization of fibroids using intrauterine ultrasound guidance. To demonstrate the effectiveness of transcervical radiofrequency ablation of fibroids that are 5 cm or larger using the Sonata® System, this retrospective analysis was collected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTranscervical radiofrequency ablation of uterine fibroids was performed on a patient in Germany, who subsequently conceived. This is the first report of a normal spontaneous vaginal delivery after fibroid ablation with the Sonata System.
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