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Chicago Tribune, United States - May 11, 2008
Mayo Clinic Medical Edge is an educational resource and doesn't replace regular medical care. To submit a question, write to: medicaledge @mayo.edu, ...
New Data Will Help Guide Prescribing of Celecoxib
Abkhazia, CA -
Dr Raymond Gibbons (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN) commented to heartwire: "This is an important study showing that the risk of the drug depends on the ...
Sleep Apnea and Athletes: MTSU linemen participate in sleep apnea ...
Daily News Journal (subscription), TN - May 11, 2008
According to Noah, one colleague at the Mayo Clinic has expressed interest in the MTSU project to compare to a recent study on retired NFL linemen. ...
Analysis of benign ventricular tumors: Long-term outcome after ...
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - May 1, 2008
Conclusion: Surgical resection for ventricular tumors is effective and results in excellent long-term outcome. Early surgical treatment should be strongly ...
Signs of ageing might instead be a treatable thyroid disorder
Science Centric, Bulgaria - May 6, 2008
They also are common symptoms of an underactive thyroid - a condition that generally responds to treatment, according to the May issue of Mayo Clinic Health ...
MN Guard Troops Help Iraqi Girl Get Burn Treatment
WCCO, MN - May 3, 2008
It took a year for guard members to arrange for Esmma and her father to receive treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Once they arrived, Esmma was ...
Prosthesis?patient mismatch affects long-term survival after ...
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - May 1, 2008
9-11 Recently, an analysis from the Mayo Clinic identified severe PPM as an independent predictor of long-term mortality in patients with small aortic valve ...
Radioactive Iodine Does Not Provide Additional Benefit to Surgery ...
DG News - May 7, 2008
The study's aim was to describe the postsurgical outcomes in 900 consecutive patients with PTM treated at the Mayo Clinic from 1945 to 2004, ...
Medication Literacy Is a 2-Way Street
RedOrbit, TX - May 3, 2008
Two articles in this issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings examine what happens when people are discharged from the hospital with new medicines.1- 2 Both throw ...
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Treatment ...
RedOrbit, TX - May 3, 2008
Clinical features of 5628 primary lung cancer patients: experience at Mayo Clinic from 1997 to 2003. Chest. 2005;128(l):452-462. 5. ...
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… safety profile of infliximab in patients with Crohn?s disease: The Mayo Clinic experience in 500 … -
JF Colombel, EV Loftus, WJ Tremaine, LJ Egan, WS … - Gastroenterology, 2004 - Elsevier
... B. Feagan, F. Anderson, P. Marsters and P. Rutgeerts, Long-term treatment of
fistulizing ... Crohn?s disease in clinical practice at the Mayo Clinic: the first ...

Infliximab for Crohn's disease in clinical practice at the Mayo Clinic: the first 100 patients -
E Ricart, R Panaccione, EV Loftus, WJ Tremaine, WJ … - American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2001 - Blackwell Synergy
... use is limited by short- and long-term side effects ... recently shown efficacy in the
treatment of moderately ... who were treated with infliximab at the Mayo Clinic. ...

… on the Risk of Acute Urinary Retention and the Need for Surgical Treatment Among Men With Benign … -
JD McConnell, R Bruskewitz, P Walsh, G Andriole, M … - The Journal of Urology, 1998 - jurology.com
... the Need for Surgical Treatment Among Men ... For the Finasteride Long-Term Efficacy
and Safety ... Louis, Missouri, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, University of ...

The Long-Term Effect of Doxazosin, Finasteride, and Combination Therapy on the Clinical Progression … -
JD McConnell, CG Roehrborn, OM Bautista, GL … - The New England Journal of Medicine, 2003 - nejm.org
... Our results indicate that long-term treatment with combination therapy is both safe
and ... SAK); University of Iowa, Iowa City (KJK); Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn ...
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MAYO CLINIC LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF THE FUNCTIONAL DURABILITY OF THE AMS 800 ARTIFICIAL URINARY … -
DS ELLIOTT, DM BARRETT - The Journal of Urology, 1998 - jurology.com
... From the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. ... surgical techniques provide an excellent
long-term solution and ... [1] Over the years a frequent treatment of urinary ...

Long-term survival after resection for ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. Is it really improving … -
SS Nitecki, MG Sarr, TV Colby, JA van Heerden - Annals of Surgery, 1995 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... Mayo Clinic experience. ... 127.Jan?Feb; [PubMed]; Bakkevold KE, Kambestad B. Long-term
survival following radical and palliative treatment of patients ...

Effects of Long-term Infusion of Prostacyclin (Epoprostenol) on Echocardiographic Measures of Right … -
… Clayton, MM Jobsis, SD Blackburn, JW Crow, WA Long - Circulation, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc
... Treatment with long-term intravenous prostacyclin, a ... D. McGoon, MD, Brooks Edwards,
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The Long-Term Outcome of Patients with IgA Nephropathy Treated with Fish Oil in a Controlled Trial -
JV DONADIO JR, JP GRANDE, EJ BERGSTRALH, RA DART, … - Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 1999 - Am Soc Nephrol
... of Hypertension and Nephrology, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin ... 266-7891;
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… at the Mayo Clinic during Six Decades (1940-1999): Temporal Trends in Initial Therapy and Long-term … -
ID Hay, GB Thompson, CS Grant, EJ Bergstralh, CE … - World Journal of Surgery, 2002 - Springer
... first addressed at the Mayo Clinic by Beahrs ... never been any meaningful long-term
prospective controlled ... consequently, all current treatment recommen- dations ...

Prognostic determinants in lupus nephritis: a long-term clinicopathologic study -
JV Donadio, GM Hart, EJ Bergstralh, KE Holley - Lupus, 1995 - lup.sagepub.com
... Yet, there are few long-term outcome studies in patients with well-defined ... Mayo Clinic
between 1964 and 1986 in whom renal biopsies were assessed using the ...

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Mayo Clinic study finds focused ultrasound treatment of uterine fibroids long term symptom relief

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A noninvasive, outpatient treatment for noncancerous uterine tumors provides sustained relief from symptoms, according to a new Mayo Clinic led collaborative study.

The study of this innovative treatment approach -- called magnetic resonance imaging guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) -- also shows that the more completely tumors are destroyed by focused ultrasound, the more durable the symptom relief. In addition, the incidence of severe side effects is low. Combined, these results produce an overall improved quality of life. The report by Mayo and its collaborators, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Focused Ultrasound for Uterine Fibroid Group at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, appears in the Aug. 1 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology (http://www.greenjournal.org/future/110.2.shtml).

Significance of the Mayo Clinic Collaboration

This new study examined more endpoints and follows women for a longer period after treatment than previous studies of the effects of focused ultrasound to treat uterine fibroid tumors. For example, the current study followed patients post-treatment for twice as long -- 24 months versus 12 months -- than earlier studies. It also followed a patient group that was more than twice as large -- 359 women versus 160 women. The results are therefore stronger than those from earlier studies, and more clinically relevant in their potential to:
  • improve patient care by decreasing the need for repeat tumor-removal procedures.

  • keep health care costs down, given that treating fibroid tumors constitutes a significant health care expenditure, particularly if it involves major surgery such as hysterectomy, or requires multiple, repeat procedures of the traditionally used noninvasive therapies that include abdominal and laparoscopic tumor removal, or uterine artery embolization.

Explains Mayo Clinic reproductive endocrinologist Elizabeth Stewart, M.D., the study’s lead author: “Up to one-third of women who undergo alternatives to hysterectomy to treat fibroids experience recurrence of fibroids, so demonstrating the durability of focused ultrasound is important. Our study does this by examining rates of subsequent surgery for fibroid tumor symptoms and other key outcomes such as uterine shrinkage. Finally, our study demonstrates that the more completely you treat the fibroids, the better the outcomes are.”

Evidence indicates that this novel technology, in the hands of experienced care-giving teams, is an effective, durable treatment for uterine fibroid tumors that safely produces sustained relief of symptoms, Dr. Stewart says.

About Focused Ultrasound

Magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound is a novel noninvasive technology for the outpatient treatment of fibroid uterine tumors. This treatment has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2004. Mayo Clinic was among the first in the U.S to offer the procedure.

Unlike other alternatives to hysterectomy, focused ultrasound does not depend on the insertion of devices, needles or catheters into the body. High-energy sound waves are directed precisely through the abdominal wall to targeted fibroid tissues. Thermal energy destroys the growths by coagulating the blood supply, while preserving healthy tissue. MRI images help physicians visualize the tissue volume and location and gauge the temperature of treated tissue.

About Uterine Fibroid Tumors

Uterine fibroid tumors -- also called leiomyomas -- are common noncancerous growths of the uterus. When symptomatic, they can cause severe abdominal and leg pain, excessive menstrual bleeding and abdominal bloating. In the past, they have been treated by surgical removal of the uterus via hysterectomy, or through noninvasive techniques such as abdominal and laparoscopic tumor removal, or uterine artery embolization. However, those approaches are associated with elevated rates of tumor regrowth, and need for repeated treatments.

About the Study

All 359 women in the study were typical uterine fibroid tumor patients with severe fibroid tumor symptoms as measured by a scientifically valid quality-of-life measurement tool. The mean patient age was mid-to-late 40s. Treatment at the various sites was guided by the same treatment protocol. Patients were scheduled for follow-up physical exams at six, 12 and 24 months after treatment.

Collaboration and Support

In addition to Dr. Stewart and Bobbie Gostout, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic, the key team members included Jaron Ravinovici, M.D., Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; Kyun Kim, M.D., Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.; Lesley Regan, M.D., St. Marys Hospital and Imperial College of Medicine, London; and Clare Tempany, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The group’s work was funded by the Insightec, Ltd., Haifa, Israel.

To obtain the latest news releases from Mayo Clinic, go to www.mayoclinic.org/news. MayoClinic.com (www.mayoclinic.com) is available as a resource for your health stories.

Contact: Amy Tieder
507-284-5005 (days)
507-284-2511 (evenings)
e-mail: newsbureau@mayo.edu
 
 
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