Every year we are required as part of our board certification to read a large number of scientific articles with questions. This article is on our list for 2019. Now Both relugolix and AbbVie's elagolix are oral drugs that do the same thing as Lupron, an injectable drug that has been around since the late 1980's. I have
I recommend pelvic floor rehabilitation therapy to all our endometriosis patients after surgery. I do believe that pelvic floor dysfunction does play a big role in endometriosis pain. If the pelvis, including the pelvic floor muscles are subjected to intense inflammation due to the endometriosis, then we would it is easy to understand that these
Uterine fibroids (also known as leiomyomas) are extremely common muscle tumors (or growths) that develop from a single muscle cell within the womb. It is stated in the literature that up to 75% of women develop a fibroid prior to menopause (1). That being said, not all women require intervention. The questions that need to
https://www.mdedge.com/obgyn/article/191907/surgery/endometriosis-surgery-women-can-expect-years-long-benefits The above link will take you to a very important study. For those of us providing excision surgery, we have known this for a long time. Most published studies on pain only have a follow up period of 6 mos to 1 year with occasional studies looking at 18 mos to 2 years. For
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It’s a sad state of affairs in the surgery world. I’m on my way back from the ASRM meeting, our national fertility society. There was some discussion of fibroids from various angles including radiologic uterine artery embolization, a non-surgical treatment for fibroids. The real argument with the Power Morcellator is whether the fibroid could be
