Slides #34, #35 & #36 Combined

Uterine Artery Embolization

What will I experience?

  • You arrive on the morning of the procedure and are admitted to the hospital
  • Nurses start an IV and pain control pump and insert a urinary catheter
  • A single dose of an antibiotic will be given
  • During the procedure you will receive medication to control pain and make you sleepy
  • The procedure takes approximately 1 hour
  • You will stay in hospital overnight and leave the next morning if you feel well enough to do so

    • Procedure

  • You will be brought into the angiography room
  • The skin overlying your hip area will be cleansed
  • The skin will be frozen with local anesthetic
  • A small needle will be inserted into the artery, then a catheter (small tube) will be threaded up into the arteries that supply the uterus
  • X-ray dye will be injected to help see the arteries
  • The particles will be injected through the catheter to block the arteries
  • The catheter will be removed and you will be brought up to your room

    • After the Procedure

    You must remain flat in bed for 8 hours in order for the “hole” in your artery to heal up
    You may eat and drink after the procedure
    You will be kept in hospital overnight for pain control (morphine pain pump)
    You may go home the next morning

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    1. Opening Slide
    2. What is a fibroid? 
    3. Who gets fibroids?
    4. What are the symptoms?
    5. How are they diagnosed?
    6 & 7 Combined. Uterine Fibroids - As seen on ultrasound. 
    8. Uterine Adenomyosis - Another cause of uterine bleeding.
    9. Uterine Adenomyosis - As seen on MRI
    10. Uterine Adenomyosis - As seen by pathologists
    11, 12, 13 & 14 combined: How are they treated?. 
    15. Comparison of treatment options
    16. What is Uterine Artery Embolization?
    17. Uterine Fibroids - History.
    18. How is it done?
    19. How is it done? ...continued.
    20. How does it work?
    21. What does the doctor see?
    22. What does the doctor see?  ...continued.
    23. Another Example.
    24. What does the doctor see? ...continued.
    25. What does the doctor see?  ...continued.
    26. & 27 combined. CT scan after embolization.
    28. MRI after embolization.
    29. MRI after embolization. ...continued.
    30. MRI after embolization. ...continued.
    31. MRI before and after embolization. ...continued.
    32. What do I need to do first?
    33. Pre-procedural Evaluation.
    34, 35, & 36 combined. What will I experience?
    37. What happens when I go home?
    38, 39, 40 & 41 Combined. What are the risks and side effects?
    42. What about Radiation?
    43. What are the results?
    44 & 45 Combined. Clinical Study 1.
    46. Clinical Study 2.
    47. Summary of Presentation.

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