Successful pregnancy after myomectomy using preoperative adjuvant uterine artery embolization

Tohoku J Exp Med. 2003 Jul;200(3):145-9. doi: 10.1620/tjem.200.145.

Abstract

A 30-year-old-woman presented with uterine leiomyoma and primary sterility. Abdominal myomectomy was performed; however, one cervical leiomyoma was not resected because of a risk of excessive blood loss. Two years after the procedure, a secondary myomectomy using preoperative adjuvant uterine artery embolization (UAE) was performed because of pronounced menorrhagia and her hope for bearing children. The patient's dysmenorrhea disappeared postoperatively and she conceived spontaneously 3 years after the secondary myomectomy. This case suggests that myomectomy using preadjuvant UAE may be an another approach for the treatment of leiomyoma in patients who wish bear children in the future.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Arteries / surgery
  • Embolization, Therapeutic*
  • Female
  • Follicle Stimulating Hormone / therapeutic use
  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone / agonists
  • Humans
  • Infertility, Female / diagnosis
  • Infertility, Female / therapy
  • Insemination, Artificial
  • Laparoscopy
  • Leiomyoma / surgery*
  • Leiomyoma / therapy
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Menorrhagia / diagnosis
  • Myometrium / surgery
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Outcome
  • Ultrasonography
  • Uterine Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Uterine Neoplasms / therapy
  • Uterus / blood supply
  • Uterus / surgery

Substances

  • Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone
  • Follicle Stimulating Hormone