[Effect of pre-emptive pregabalin on pain intensity and morphine requirement after hysterectomy].

Background: Pregabalin, an antiepileptic and chronic pain medication, has been used by various authors for preoperative analgesia. We have assessed the effect of pre-emptive administration of the drug to patients scheduled for elective abdominal hysterectomy.

Methods: Seventy-four ASA I and II patients were included in this prospective, double blind study.

[Uterine arteries embolization as a treatment of uterine leiomyoma].

Uterine artery embolization is a new method of treating uterine leiomyomata, first carried out in France in the early 90s. The procedures involve placing a small catheter into an artery in the groin and directing it to the blood supply of the fibroid. Little plugs of polyvinyl alcohol are injected through the catheter to block these arteries.

[Submucosal symptomatic leiomyoma treated with transcatheter uterine artery embolisation--case report].

The paper describes case of a patient (43 year old) suffering from submucosal symptomatic leiomyoma. She was treated with transcatheter uterine artery embolization. After a 3 month follow-up the patient was asymptomatic and a great reduction of leiomyoma was seen in MR.