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Radiation can be reduced in uterine fibroid embolization.(Gynecologic Surgery)
NICE, FRANCE -- German investigators significantly reduced radiation exposures without causing complications in 64 women undergoing uterine fibroid embolization.
Bilateral embolization was possible in 63 patients, Dierk Vorwerk, M.D., Ph.D., reported at the annual meeting of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe.
Embolization failed in a single uterine artery in just one woman.
No "specific complications" were found, according to Dr. Vorwerk of the Klinikum Ingolstadt (Germany).
"Strict adherence to simple radiation protection rules decreases dose area product significantly. Dose reduction per image significantly decreases dose but does not increase fluoroscopy time," he said.
Many gynecologists are skeptical of embolization, Dr. Vorwerk said. Among the reasons is that radiation exposure is a concern in women who are candidates for childbirth. Ovaries are particularly sensitive to radiation, he noted.
From January 2004 through June 2005, he and his colleagues treated 64 patients 32-48 years of age with a unilateral, sub-radical embolization approach.
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