News tagged with uterine artery
Quality of life significantly increases after uterine fibroid treatment
Women who received one of three treatments for uterine fibroids at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said their symptoms diminished and their quality of life significantly increased, according to a new study published ...
Mar 01, 2011 |
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Interventional radiology treatment for uterine fibroids: Safe, nonsurgical option (w/ Video)
Uterine fibroid embolization—a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for women that cuts off blood flow to painful fibroids to kill the tumors—is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for ...
Aug 13, 2009 |
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Avoiding hysterectomy: Major interventional radiology E-collection info available
For the first time, the Society of Interventional Radiology has assembled a major electronic collection of professional articles about uterine artery embolization, a treatment directed toward a number of conditions involving ...
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Babies born to native high-altitude mothers have decreased risk of low birth weight
Pregnant women who are indigenous to the Andes Mountains deliver more blood and oxygen to their fetuses at high altitude than do women of European descent. The study helps explain why babies of Andean descent ...
May 18, 2009 |
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African-American women 3 times more likely to get fibroids
Women who experience heavy periods, cramping, pain during sex, an urge to urinate frequently and even infertility may have a common disorder that affects African-American women three times more often than other women. This ...
Aug 09, 2011 |
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Pelvic arterial embolization for postpartum hemorrhage saves lives, preserves uterus
Pelvic arterial embolization or PAE, a minimally invasive, life-saving therapy, is a safe and effective treatment for postpartum hemorrhage, say researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 36th Annual Scientific ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Fibroids cause women's lower urinary tract problems: uterine fibroid embolization helps
Uterine fibroid embolization—an interventional radiology treatment for the noncancerous yet very common growths that develop in the muscular wall of the uterus—improves a number of women's lower urinary tract problems ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Pregnancy problems could be from antibacterial agent
A chemical found in everything from antibacterial soaps and lotions to socks and toothpaste may disrupt an enzyme that plays an important role in pregnancy, University of Florida researchers say.
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Human-specific evolution in battling bugs and building babies
Although human and chimpanzee immune systems have many identical components, this is not the case for the family of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) controlling white blood cells known as natural killer (NK) ...
Nov 04, 2010 |
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Metabolic status before pregnancy predicts subsequent gestational diabetes
Cardio-metabolic risk factors such as high blood sugar and insulin, and low high density lipoprotein cholesterol that are present before pregnancy, predict whether a woman will develop diabetes during a future pregnancy, ...
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Are Higher Testosterone Levels Associated with Greater Heart Risk?
Testosterone in men has become a hot health topic. New studies, including one by UCSF researchers, now are sparking a controversy over the role of testosterone in heart disease.
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Researchers find key to getting estrogen's benefits without cancer risk
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have pinpointed a set of biological mechanisms through which estrogen confers its beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system, independent of the hormone's actions on cancer. ...
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Selective estrogen targeting to protect the heart and blood vessels
Diseases of the blood vessels and heart, which are known as cardiovascular diseases, are the most common causes of death in the US. They include heart failure and atherosclerosis (also known as hardening of the arteries), ...
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Rock-a-bye baby: Uterine fibroid embolization shows fertility rates comparable to myomectomy
Uterine fibroid embolization, a minimally invasive interventional radiology procedure that blocks blood supply to treat painful uterine fibroids, has a comparable fertility rate to myomectomy, the surgical removal of uterine ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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