In the procedure, a catheter is inserted into the groin and threaded up to the uterine arteries under X-ray guidance.
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But Brown instead chose the newest option : uterine artery embolization, a treatment still considered experimental by some doctors and insurers.
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Uterine artery embolization, the blocking of vessels supplying blood to uterine fibroids, using a catheter inserted in the groin and X-ray imaging.
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Therefore although the pO2 in the uterine arteries is low, the foetal umbilical arteries ( which are deoxygenated ) can still get oxygenated from them.
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In performing the procedure, interventional radiologists insert a thin tube into an artery in the groin and thread it up to the main uterine artery in the pelvis.
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Embolization involves injecting pellets the size of grains of sand, made from plastic or gels, into uterine arteries to stop blood flow and shrink the tumors by starvation.
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Blood is supplied to the vagina via the branches of the uterine artery, the middle rectal artery, and the internal pudendal artery, all branches of the internal iliac artery.
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Patients have many options in the management of uterine fibroids, including : observation, medical therapy ( such a GNRH agonists ), hysterectomy, uterine artery embolization, and high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation.
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In summary, PlGF and sFlt-1 concentrations measured by immunoassay in maternal blood improve the prognostic possibilities in preeclampsia which is diagnosed by clinical symptoms, proteinuria, and uterine artery Doppler velocimetry.
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Uterine artery ligation, sometimes also laparoscopic occlusion of uterine arteries are minimally invasive methods to limit blood supply of the uterus by a small surgery that can be performed transvaginally or laparoscopically.
