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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: outpatient treatment + non-cancerous uterine + uterine  Related to the article below (Last Update: 7/1/2008)

ASAP targeting juvenile drug, alcohol abuse
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The impetus is on early treatment, which in turn will help reduce crime, save money and save lives. The intensive outpatient treatment targets adolescents ...
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Host of new laws come into effect today
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Gunman Seung-Hui Cho had a history of behavioral problems and had been ordered to get outpatient treatment by a Montgomery County special justice 16 months ...
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by Jason Gregory Amy Winehouse has been discharged from The Clinic in London and will continue treatment as an outpatient, according to her spokesperson. ...
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OBSTETRIC & GYNAECOLOGY OUTPATIENT CLINICS
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... care and treatment in its women?s clinics. Future obstetric and gynaecology outpatient clinic needs are being factored into plans for the new hospital.
Liberate the Mentally Ill -- With Mandated Treatment
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Uterine Fibroid Embolization. -
H Baakdah, T Tulandi - Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2005 - clinicalobgyn.com
... myoma.2 Also, 69% of women who underwent a hysterectomy for noncancerous conditions
were ... Uterine fibroid embolization is an outpatient treatment of women ...

[PDF] Transvaginal 3 D Image-Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Array -
R Held, TN Nguyen, S Vaezy - 4 th International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound, 2005 - faculty.washington.edu
... of HIFU treatment provides an effective method for outpatient-based procedures.
INTRODUCTION Uterine fibroids (or leiomyomas) are non-cancerous tumors that are ...
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[PDF] Uterine Fibroid Embolization, a Minimally Invasive Treatment for Uterine Fibroids
D Shnitzler - sirweb.org
... Uterine fibroids are very common noncancerous (benign) growths that ... if the woman
is a candidate for this treatment. ... myomectomy can be an outpatient surgery or ...

[PDF] Uterine Fibroid Embolization, a Minimally Invasive Treatment for Uterine Fibroids -
E Oehler - sirweb.org
... Uterine fibroids are very common noncancerous (benign) growths that ... if the woman
is a candidate for this treatment. ... myomectomy can be an outpatient surgery or ...

[PDF] Uterine fibroids
A Names - obgynoncall.com
... Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that develop within or ... to grown as soon
as treatment stops. ... resection of fibroids (an outpatient surgical procedure ...

Laser Treatment to Go: Outpatient Uses of Healing Light Abound. -
D Farley - FDA Consumer, 1987 - questia.com
... that can often be done on an outpatient basis: ... can be removed by lasers, but treatment
isn't ... tiny red dots), adenoma sebaceum (noncancerous growths), rosacea ...

Alternatives to Hysterectomy New Technologies, More Options: More Than 1 in 4 US Women Will Have a …
L Bren - FDA Consumer, 2001 - questia.com
... uterine bleeding (menorrhagia) due to benign (noncancerous) causes ... in the hospital
on an outpatient basis; however ... what she expects from a treatment for abnormal ...

1 Introduction: the epidemiology of uterine leiomyomas -
B Vollenhoven - Bailliere's Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 1998 - Elsevier
... undergoing hysterectomy for non- cancerous conditions and ... pre-operative medical
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[PDF] MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound
P Brief - surgeons.org
... and myomas) are benign (non-cancerous) tumours composed ... the present time, a single
outpatient procedure for ... MRI-guided focused ultrasound treatment is probably ...

Patient information: Treatment of early stage cervical cancer -
R FACTORS, T OPTIONS, F UP, LT OUTLOOK - patients.uptodate.com
... HPV can also cause a noncancerous condition called genital ... The treatment is
traditionally accomplished using a radiation ... and can be performed as an outpatient. ...

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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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