Re: ABCNEWS.com: Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Aug 30 19:22:36 2004
Right Efrain. just as case reports of lupron being administered for
cases which ultimately proved to be leiomyosarcoma, it's only a matter
of time before the same occurs with UAE. to date, there is no imaging
modality which uniformly differentiates between myoma and sarcoma.
art
At Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Efrain Ramirez wrote:
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>I remember the laser fever -
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>I am always reluctant with "surgical treatments" that don't deliver
>tissue diagnosis ..
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>> At Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote:
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>>I like the description from the ABC article:
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>>She was mildly sedated for the procedure. Tiny pellets were injected
>>into a catheter inserted near the groin that is guided up to the uterine
>>arteries. The pellets stop the flow of blood to the fibroid tumors,
>>causing them to shrink and die. The pellets are made out of a plastic
>>similar to contact lenses and stay in the artery permanently.
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>>The outcome statistics for uterine fibroid embolization are impressive —
>>more than 90 percent symptom relief, with complications in only 2
>>percent to 5 percent of cases. Radiologists now routinely avoid the
>>arteries near the cervix and vagina — which seems to minimize the risk
>>of sexual dysfunction.
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>>Another advance has been the use of pain medication for the severe
>>cramping that sometimes starts during the procedure. It can often last
>>several days but can be well controlled with medication.
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>>How about the "Radiologists now routinely avoid the arteries near the
>>cervix and vagina — which seems to minimize the risk of sexual
>>dysfunction."
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>>The only uterine arteries ARE near the cervix and vagina! So what the **
>>are they talking about?!
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>>OK folks - who thinks 75% of those having hysts should have UAE intead?
>>
>>Joanne
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>>At Sat, 28 Aug 2004, rmodugno@aol.com wrote:
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>>>You have received this ABCNEWS.com mail from:
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>>>Robert Modugno MD
>>>rmodugno@aol.com
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>>>I thought you might find this story interesting.
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>>>Are Most Hysterectomies Unnecessary?
>>>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/Living/fibroid_hysterectomies_040827-1.html
>>
>>--
>>Joanne Bulley, MD
>>Keene, NH, USA
>>
>>"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies
>> in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who
>> are cold and are not clothed."
>>
>>President Dwight D. Eisenhower
>>April 16, 1953
>>
>--
>"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
>But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
>
>Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
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