Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a relatively rare cerebrovascular disease, of which the risk has been documented in patients with numerous conditions. However, CVST has never been previously described in association with the use of a diagnostic curettage in patient with uterine fibroid. Herein, we described a 43-year-old woman who presented with recurrent convulsive seizures and seve...

Women with symptomatic uterine fibroids have an increasing number of treatment options available, from medical management through minimally invasive procedures to major surgery. Over the past two decades, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, endometrial ablation, uterine artery embolisation, magnetic resonance guided focussed ultrasound, radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation and cryoab...

Uterine fibroids are benign tumors of the myometrium with a diverse range of manifestations. Fibroids can dramatically increase in size during pregnancy due to the increase in estrogen levels. After delivery, the fibroids usually shrink back to their pre-pregnancy size. Uterine myomas may have many complications, including abnormal uterine bleeding, infertility, pressure on nearby organs, degen...

T he uterus is the most common site to develop smooth muscle tumors. Uterine fibroids (leiomyomas) contain benign smooth muscle and fibrous tissues. Twenty percent to 40% of reproductive age women develop uterine fibroids, with a higher incidence in African Americans. Although the decline in hormonal stimulation causes most fibroids to regress at menopause, 20% become symptomatic before then. U...

OBJECTIVE To explore the correlation between magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of uterine fibroids (UFs) and therapeutic effects of high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation (HIFUA), and to provide evidence for UFs diagnosis with MRI in clinical practice. METHODS Forty-three UFs patients who were treated in our hospital from April 2012 to June 2014 were selected, including 72 UFs (48...

Abstract Background Uterine fibroid, the most common benign neoplasm of uterus, is associated with an elevated risk cardiovascular disease. The link between incident atrial fibrillation (AF) and uterine fibroid unclear because earlier studies focused primarily on development atherosclerosis hypertension. We aimed to investigate AF in patients fibroid. Methods This a retrospective cohort study u...

Tubo-ovarian abscess is a rare but potentially serious event that can occur after uterine artery embolization (UAE). We describe herein two cases of severe inflammatory tubo-ovarian abscesses. Two women presented with severe abdominal pain, cramping, and fever several months after UAE. Abdominal computed tomography demonstrated an enlarged tubo-ovarian mass, suggestive of an abscess. Percutaneo...

We propose that inadequate sympathetic bias and Th2 bias in the uterine environment contributes to the formation of fibroids, independent of the sex steroid status. We also propose that fibroids represent a modern maladaptation that partly results from decreasing exposure to seminal fluid, which contains catecholalmines, transforming growth factor beta1 (TGFbeta1), aldosterone, prostaglandins, ...