This content is sponsored by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Many women experience things like bloating, pelvic pain and pressure, constipation or very heavy periods and may not know the cause.

Symptomatic fibroids are treated traditionally by hysterectomy or myomectomy. However, in recent years uterine artery embolization has come to the fore as a successful alternative to surgical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the United States, one in three women undergoes hysterectomy by age 60 years, according to the CDC. Previous ...

Uterine fibroids are benign tumors originating from uterine smooth muscles. The location can be submucosal, intramural, or subserosal. They can be solitary or multiple, associated with symptoms, or ...

Almost half of women diagnosed with uterine fibroids have never heard of uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), and less than half of those who were familiar with the ...

1. Which doctor should I consult to undergo an uterine fibroid embolization (UFE)? You need to consult your gynecologist, who will then refer you to an interventional Radiologist. 2. Is uterine ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In women with symptomatic fibroids -- benign tumors inside the uterus that can lead to pain, abnormal bleeding and other symptoms -- a treatment called uterine artery ...

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 ...

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 ...