Fertility Treatment Helps Women With Fibroids Bear Children
Fertility Treatment Helps Women With Fibroids Bear Children
Breakthrough treatment could help women with uterine fibroid tumors bear children.
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" All these. Dana Clark with a child may seem commonplace just gone. But it thirty year old Amy how it practically a miracle. Packet that -- does -- mean are there. Have any effort from the uterine eighteen -- from a huge tangle of arteries conveyed to the uterus. A complications from an early unsuccessful pregnancy can be a ticking time bomb. As the uterus and larger and larger it can start to -- heavy heavy bleeding and hemorrhage. Amy respiratory care -- hospital. Learned interventional radiologist. Doctor a tool Gupta was using 3-D imaging to treat uterine fibroid tumors. And wondered at the procedure could help save her fertility. Is let Amy MRI shows. During the procedure doctor Gupta combined with real time X ray to create 3-D map for -- The breeding technique let that. Untangle it -- people like. Angle that the clear images out to doctors to quickly and easily died in -- catheter through the artery and economically if you get there aren't they. Following. My wired doctors inject almost microscopic particles to choke off the blood supply. At that -- arteries and veins naturally dissolve over time. Well we're done. All of this was done doctor Gupta says the technique dramatically reduces radiation exposure preliminary finish on that we are reducing radiation that 80% with the technique and in fact our procedures taking that only about 45 minutes or less He -- there are no serious side effects with only minor cramping afterwards. Patients -- a conscious sedation and spent the night in the hospital. The treaty technique allowed the -- spirit of Bethel Amy needed to have a pregnancy. -- and I have an ambulance to great feeling for me and our team knows that we can change patients' lives in -- nothing like having your grandchildren. There's nothing like an -- Good job baby girl."
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