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The purpose of the Fibroid Registry is to provide a comprehensive database that captures patient characteristics, clinical outcomes and pot-treatment quality of life measures for patients treated for uterine fibroids. This database will serve as a platform for future comparative effectiveness and other health services research studies.
Cellular leiomyomas (CLs) are described as leiomyomas that are significantly more cellular than the surrounding myometrium, often with crowding and overlapping of nuclei. they often are soft and appear more tan or yellow and less circumscribed than the usual leiomyomas. Pre-operatively CLs can be recognized at ultrasound evaluation because they appear as hypoechoic uterine lesions. patients with hypoechoic myoma have a significantly longer surgery time after treatment with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analog probably related to degenerative changes induced by this treatment. Hypoechoic CLs should be more responsive to ulipristal acetate treatment than common leiomyomas. The antiproliferative ulipristal effect, moreover, induces a condition of apoptotic necrosis that, compared to GnRH-a myxoid necrosis, probably allows an easier surgical enucleation of the tumor.
The uterine leiomyoma is the most common female benign disease. Submucosal fibroid are about 10%, they distort the endometrial cavity causing heavy and/or irregular bleeding (AUB) and infertility. Hysteroscopic removal of submucosal myomas improves this conditions. GnRH analogues are commonly used before hysteroscopic myomectomy to make surgery easier and safer, but they are expensive, have potential side effects and lack a robust evidence base to support this practice. Ulipristal acetate treatment was able and faster to control in 90% of cases uterine bleeding associated with fibroids than GnRH agonists. UPA significantly improved quality of life and pain reduction.
Submucosal fibroid grow inside the uterine cavity and are associated with menorrhagia, abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) and infertility. Type II (G2) fibroids often require more surgeries due to their particular position in the myometrium. Surgery, moreover, should always be tailored, particularly in patients wishing to conceive, to preserve the integrity of the myometrium. Preoperative use of GnRH agonist appears to be relevant and beneficial in patients with submucous fibroids, but are associated with several side effects. the eighty percent of patients treated by UPA showed a clinically meaningful reduction of more than 25% in fibroid volume, and 50% of patients a reduction of 50%. fibroid volume reduction appeared to be maintained for 6 months after the end of UPA treatment
The primary objective of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of two vaginal doses of Proellex® administered for up to 2 courses of treatment (18 weeks each), each separated by an Off-Drug Interval (ODI), to premenopausal women with symptomatic uterine fibroids.
The primary objective of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of two oral doses of Proellex administered for up to 2 courses of treatment (18 weeks each), each separated by an Off-Drug Interval (ODI), to premenopausal women with symptomatic uterine fibroids.
Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is a minimally invasive treatment for women with symptomatic fibroids. It is similar to hysterectomy in term of satisfaction and symptoms improvement, with fewer complications and at lower cost. However, the majority of women undergoing UFE experience important pain after the procedure despite optimal analgesia, with one third reporting pain equal or worse than labor. Pain is the more common cause of prolonged hospital stay or readmission. There is need for a simple, efficient way to reduce post-procedural pain. For this prospective randomized study, the hypothesis is that an anesthetic drug, lidocaine, injected in the uterine arteries diminishes pain post-UFE. Patients will be randomized in 3 groups: control, lidocaine injected during embolization, and lidocaine injected after embolization. Pain will be evaluated using a validated scale at 4h and 24h post-intervention. Hospital length-of-stay and total narcotic dose administered will be evaluated in the three groups. This is the first Canadian study evaluating lidocaine use for pain control in UFE patients. Results will be transferable to clinical practice, considering the use of lidocaine is simple and cost is negligible. It could have a great impact on pain management in women undergoing UFE in all practice settings.
The objectives of this program are to verify the safety and effectiveness of the MRgHIFU system developed by the division of Medical Engineering of National Health Research Institutes (NHRI)
Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) is now an accepted treatment of uterine fibroids. However the procedure is often very painful and, in many centres, patients are admitted overnight with patient controlled analgesic (PCA) pumps for pain control and discharged the next day with heavy pain medications. The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a superior hypogastric nerve block (SHGNB) in controlling the pain post-UFE.