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Minimally invasive option treats women with heavy menstrual bleeding.(Brief Article)
2002 DEC 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The recently FDA approved and patented NovaSure System brings hope to more than ten million women who suffer from heavy menstrual bleeding.
Menorrhagia can be so severe and disruptive that women commonly use up to 20 sanitary napkins or tampons in a day.
NovaSure can change a woman's life in a single 90-second treatment. This outpatient procedure is an alternative to hysterectomy, conventional endometrial ablation, and hormone therapy.
"The alternatives were unacceptable," said Michele Gerber, obstetrician/gynecologist with Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego, California. "Two hundred thousand hysterectomies performed each year are attributed to heavy bleeding. NovaSure has rendered hysterectomy as an unnecessary option and virtually obsolete for treating excessive menstrual bleeding in most women," said Gerber. "There is no ...
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