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The Angiography Suite is where the procedure is performed. The Interventional Radiologist sterilizes the skin lying on top of a large artery located in the groin area with an iodine solution and numbs it with a local anesthetic. The injection for the anesthetic may sting and burn for a few seconds. A needle is inserted into the artery and exchanged for a plastic catheter about the thickness of a strand of spaghetti.

Watching under X-ray the Interventional Radiologist then maneuvers the catheter into the main arteries supplying the uterus and injects small plastic particles to plug up the blood vessels supplying the fibroids. X-ray dye is injected through the catheter to show the vessels during this process, and the patient may feel sensations of warmth from these injections.

This blocks the blood supply so that the fibroids shrink and the symptoms are attenuated.

 
Fellow of Dr. Garcia Monaco's team starting to perform UFE

 
Fellow of Dr. Garcia Monaco's team starting to perform UFE

Your interventional radiologist and gynaecologist will be working closely together and a follow-up will be done after the procedure.  Follow-up details vary but you will be asked to return for check-ups one and six months after embolisation. An ultrasound scan or a MRI examination is carried out after between 3 and 6 months. In any event, you should notify your physician about any abnormality you notice after embolisation.

Pregnancy after Uterine Artery Embolization?  -  Embolisation does not compromise fertility although the procedure is not at this time licensed for the correction of leiomyoma-related infertility.

For more information send an email to Prof. Dr Ricardo Garcia Monaco: ricardo.garciamonaco@hospitalitaliano.org.ar

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Garcia Monaco website.  For request of turns to communicate with Mrs. Patricia Pontieri to 4-959-0470.

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