Alternative fibroid treatment can eliminate surgery

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: July 16, 2004| Author: Lauren Streicher, M.D. | Copyright information

Anyone searching the Internet for alternative treatments for fibroids is likely to come across "uterine artery embolization" -- a procedure that shrinks fibroids so a hysterectomy is no longer necessary -- as the ideal solution to the problem.

And, for many women, UAE does eliminate the need for surgery. This relatively new technology also is often useful as "pretreatment" prior to a hysterectomy to correct an anemia that has resulted from heavy bleeding or to shrink fibroids so that a...

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