Heavier menstrual bleeding, sometimes with passage of blood clots. Myolysis and Endometrial ablation less invasive options in select patients. Induces premature menopause and associated symptoms.
Fibroids usually return to original size after cessation of therapy.
Using modern state of the art digital imaging equipment, the Interventional Radiologist works over the patient, in a sterile environment. This looks much like an operating room, except that high tech imaging equipment is used to help guide the doctor. This is an arteriogram of the pelvic vessels during intial injection. One can see the enlarged tortuous uterine arteries bilaterally. Cessation of blood flow forward to the fibroids, with reflux of contrast to arteries in posterior division of the left internal iliac artery following embolization.