Latest Uterine fibroids Stories

MR-guided focused ultrasound offers women another minimally invasive treatment to remove uterine fibroids"”avoiding surgical myomectomy and hysterectomyTAMPA, Fla. -- There's a new interventional radiology tool showing promise in the treatment of uterine fibroids: magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), a minimally invasive treatment that uses high-energy ultrasound waves to generate heat at a specific point to destroy uterine fibroid tissue and relieve symptoms. A study of...

First global study indicates comparable fertility rates for minimally invasive UFE and 'gold standard' surgical myomectomy for women who want to have children after uterine fibroid treatmentTAMPA, Fla. -- Uterine fibroid embolization, a minimally invasive interventional radiology procedure that blocks blood supply to treat painful uterine fibroids, has a comparable fertility rate to myomectomy, the surgical removal of uterine fibroids, for women who want to conceive, according to the first...

First Global Study Indicates Comparable Fertility Rates for Minimally Invasive UFE and 'Gold Standard' Surgical Myomectomy for Women Who Want to Have Children After Uterine Fibroid Treatment TAMPA, Fla., March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Uterine fibroid embolization, a minimally invasive interventional radiology procedure that blocks blood supply to treat painful uterine fibroids, has a comparable fertility rate to myomectomy, the surgical removal of uterine fibroids, for women who want...

MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Offers Women Another Minimally Invasive Treatment to Remove Uterine Fibroids--Avoiding Surgical Myomectomy and Hysterectomy TAMPA, Fla., March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There's a new interventional radiology tool showing promise in the treatment of uterine fibroids: magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), a minimally invasive treatment that uses high-energy ultrasound waves to generate heat at a specific point to destroy uterine fibroid tissue...

Latest Advances in Minimally Invasive Medicine Featured March 13-18 in Tampa, Fla. FAIRFAX, Va., March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) will present the latest research on treatments for individuals with liver, breast, soft tissue, colon, prostate, lung and pancreatic cancers; painful spinal fractures; peripheral arterial disease (PAD); uterine fibroids; and more at its 35th Annual Scientific Meeting March 13-18 at the Tampa Convention Center....

FAIRFAX, Va., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- A woman can't walk after the ER treated her blood clot. A man faced six hours of cancer surgery before learning about a two-hour minimally invasive treatment. A woman with painful uterine fibroids refused to have a hysterectomy. All three have one thing in common: They were each treated by interventional radiologists -- doctors whom they had never heard of and learned about on their own through non-traditional means -- by word of mouth, on the Web or...

In a study presented Saturday at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting â„¢, in Chicago, researchers unveiled findings that show that there is an increased risk of intrauterine fetal death (IUFD), commonly known as stillbirth, in women who have fibroids.IUFD, or still birth, is rare and affects only six to seven out of every thousand births.The study, conducted by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., identified women who...

LIVERMORE, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wall Street Journal, CBS, and other popular news outlets have recently featured headline stories about a clinical study that is recruiting patients suffering with uterine fibroids. "We're not at all surprised by the attention this study is getting from the media," said Russ DeLonzor, President and Chief Operating Officer of Halt Medical, Inc., a medical technology company headquartered near San Francisco. Fibroids are benign tumors of the...

TEL AVIV, January 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elbit Imaging Ltd. (NASDAQ: EMITF) ("Elbit" "Company") that its subsidiary, InSightec Ltd., announced today that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the company's ExAblate(R) MR-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) system for the treatment of women with uterine fibroids. ExAblate is currently the only noninvasive treatment for uterine fibroids approved for use in Japan. InSightec Ltd. estimates that...

TIRAT CARMEL, Israel, January 13 /PRNewswire/ -- - InSightec's ExAblate System Uses Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound to Perform Uterine Procedures Without Incisions InSightec Ltd. announced today that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the company's ExAblate(R) MR-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) system for the treatment of women with uterine fibroids. "We are very pleased that the Japanese Ministry of Health has approved the...