was strapped to a gurney with an IV stuck in her arm, headed for the operating room where a surgeon was waiting to perform her hysterectomy, when an anesthesiologist noticed the elevated blood ...

A minimally-invasive procedure has been shown to successfully treat uterine fibroids while requiring little downtime for the patient and preserving the woman's uterus. "This is another treatment ...

But now, a new laparoscopic procedure is shrinking fibroids and helping women avoid invasive surgery. Over the past few months, Tia Johnson’s life and health have taken a good turn.

In the decade since radiologists began performing the procedure in the United States, uterine embolization has become a common treatment for fibroids. In November 2004, Secretary of State ...

Before, the only option was surgery to remove the fibroid or a hysterectomy. ... "One of the beauties of this procedure is all the fibroids in the uterus are treated," said Dr. Friedman.

Fibroids are serious. Surgery isn’t the only way to stop them. ... a procedure that uses heat to shrink fibroids one at a time. “Anecdotally, I can tell you that people do better, ...

A nonsurgical approach to treating uterine fibroids is now available locally. The procedure, called uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), is approved by both the American College of Radiology and ...

Although the most common treatment for fibroids that cause extreme pain is surgery, some women choose a gentler procedure known as uterine artery embolization. However, the study found there were ...

The risk to a woman, black or white, whose fibroids are symptomatic enough to seek surgery is high. So is the likelihood that black women have been harmed by the procedure.