Evaluating pregnancy outcomes in women with uterine fibroids treated with high-intensity focused ultrasound: insights from a single-institution study
Min Zhao, Dan Wang, Yong Zhang, Ligang Wang · 2024
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Women with uterine fibroids who still hope to conceive need treatments that spare the womb. Min Zhao and co-authors review what happened when 210 such women became pregnant after high-intensity focused ultrasound, a needle-free treatment that cooks fibroid tissue with sound waves. Their hospital records run from 2018 to 2022, and the team compared the group with two others: mothers who delivered vaginally and mothers who had cesarean sections.
Nearly 94 percent conceived naturally, though about 19 percent miscarried. Against the vaginal group, the ultrasound mothers had less gestational diabetes but more mild anemia and more placentas stuck to the womb wall. Against the cesarean group, they again had less diabetes and less moderate anemia, but more cases of membranes breaking early. Their babies weighed less on average, yet none were classed as low birth weight. The authors call the treatment safe and fertility-sparing, while urging careful patient selection.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Min Zhao, Dan Wang, Yong Zhang, Ligang Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |