Surgery is a trauma, and the body responds as such -- with major blood loss and swelling, and all manner of nerve and pain signals that can stick around sometimes for months. Those are but a few ...

The former Real Housewives of Atlanta star is using Women’s History Month as an opportunity to tell fibroid sufferers that a hysterectomy isn’t the only path to relief Based in Los Angeles ...

Without question, women should undergo hysterectomy if any question of uterine neoplasm exists. The perimenopausal woman poses a specific dilemma. It is well known that uterine fibroids often ...

The fibroids are watched for changes and growth by having regular pelvic exams and/or ultrasounds. Hysterectomy is a surgery to remove the uterus. It may or may not involve the removal of one or ...

Today, I look at a hysterectomy done when a patient has severe bleeding from fibroids that cannot be controlled in any other way. She's tried medication, she's tried birth control pills ...

Surgical approaches range from myomectomy, which removes fibroids while preserving the uterus, to hysterectomy for women who have completed childbearing and experience severe symptoms resistant to ...

Uterine artery embolization. Decreases the blood supply to the fibroids, causing them to shrink. Hysterectomy. Surgical removal of the uterus. MRI-guided ultrasound surgery. Uses ultrasound waves to ...

Up to 80% of women develop fibroids by the age of 50. Fibroids are non-cancerous smooth muscle tumors. They are characterized ...

A hysterectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the uterus. Hysterectomies are used to treat problems of the uterus, including fibroids, endometriosis, pelvic support problems, abnormal uterine ...