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Endometrial ablation methods for menorrhagia found equally good.(Gynecology)
Las Vegas -- Bipolar radiofrequency ablation and thermal balloon ablation are equally effective for the treatment of menorrhagia, a population-based cohort study showed.
However, women who underwent radiofrequency ablation (RFA, or NovaSure), a technology that was introduced in 2001, were nearly three times more likely to develop postprocedural amenorrhea than were women who underwent thermal balloon ablation (TBA, or ThermaChoice), a technology that was introduced in 1997, Dr. Sherif El-Nashar said at the annual meeting of the AAGL.
"In several randomized clinical trials, the newer global endometrial ablation technologies had comparable efficacy to hysteroscopic endometrial ablation, along with [an] improved safety profile," said Dr. El-Nashar of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
"Despite the wide use of global endometrial ablation technologies in clinical practice, to date, only two randomized controlled trials have directly compared RFA and TBA technologies. Despite their excellent design, they had relatively small sample sizes, were all from single centers, and had a relatively short follow-up," he added.
In a study led by Dr. El-Nashar's mentor, Dr. Abimbola O. Famuyide, the researchers used the Rochester Epidemiology Project to identify 455 women who resided in Olmsted County, Minn., and underwent global endometrial ablation for menorrhagia between January 1998 and December 2005. The project includes information about patients receiving care at Olmsted ...
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