To study the effect of thermal balloon endometrial ablation in management of menorrhagia in high risk surgical candidates. The method is thirty patients with menorrhagia who were high risk candidates for surgery underwent uterine balloon therapy. Results were statistically analyzed regarding procedure, safety, side effects and prognostic factors at follow-up periods of one month, three months, ...

Endometrial resection is a well-examined alternative therapy to hysterectomy in the treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding not associated with malignancy, that preserves the uterus at long term in at least 70% of patients. The new devices have been designed over the last decade, in response to demands from patients and practitioners. This review demonstrated that the second generation endometri...

An 89 year old woman had a two-month history of vaginal bleeding. Vaginal ultrasound examination showed an expanded endometrium. An outpatient endometrial biopsy was performed, which showed a moderately differentiated grade 2 endometrioid endometrial adenocarcinoma. Magnetic resonance imaging suggested that the tumour was minimally invasive and confined to the uterus (Fig. 1). The woman had lim...

Microwave endometrial ablation (MEA) is effective for the emergency control of uterine hemorrhage. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been only a single report of life-threatening hemorrhage induced by endometrial carcinoma that was treated with MEA. The present report evaluates the efficacy of MEA as an emergency therapeutic option for the control of bleeding due to advanced endo...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To evaluate postoperative pain after mini-invasive surgical treatment for dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) with transcervical endometrial resection or thermal ablation balloon. MATERIALS AND METHODS A longitudinal observational study, analyzing 47 women affected by DUB who underwent endometrial ablation was conducted. The authors collected evaluation of pelvic pain at...

Objectives: Menorrhagia is a common disorder worldwide. It affects approximately 22% of otherwise healthy women. In Hong Kong, 9% of all gynaecology admissions were due to menorrhagia, for which hysterectomy was the main surgical treatment. In 2007, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guideline recommended endometrial ablation as a treatment option for benign menorrhagia, ...