ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022
Should Ultrasound-Guided High Frequency Focused Ultrasound Be Considered as an Alternative Non-Surgical Treatment of Uterine Fibroids in Non-Asiatic Countries? An Opinion Paper.
Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Ethnomedicinal validation ofFrontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Third-Trimester Spontaneous Uterine Rupture After Ultrasound-Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2024Article
- Long-term outcome of ultrasound-guided focused ultrasound ablation for gestational trophoblastic neoplasia in the cesarean scar: a case report.BMC women's health · 2022Article
- The future of (non-)surgical ablative therapy in uterine adenomyosis.Facts, views & vision in ObGyn · 2022Article
- High-intensity Focused Ultrasound is a Better Choice for Women with Fertility Desire: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Comparison between High-intensity Focused Ultrasound and Laparoscopic Treatment of Uterine Fibroids.Gynecology and minimally invasive therapyReview
- High-intensity Focused Ultrasound for the Treatment of Fibroids: A Single-center Experience in Singapore.Gynecology and minimally invasive therapyArticle
- Integrating High-intensity Focused Ultrasound with Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Invasive Hydatidiform Mole in Reproductive-age Women.Gynecology and minimally invasive therapyArticle
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Abstract
Minimally invasive interventions for myomata treatment have gained acceptance due to the possibility of preserving fertility with reduced trauma induced by laparotomy as way of entrance. There are insufficient data regarding outcomes of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in non-Asiatic women. Therefore, we revised the available evidence to present an expert opinion that could support physicians, patients and policy-makers for considering this approach in other populations. We revisited systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials and cohort studies from January 2018 to August 2021 using PubMed and Google scholar, regarding short and long term outcomes after ablation with focused ultrasound waves. In total, 33 studies, including 114,810 adult patients showed that outcomes of this approach depend on several parameters directly related with resistance to thermal ablation, especially fibroid size and vascularization. Two studies report satisfactory outcomes in Afro-American women. In accordance to the technique used, fibroid volume reduction showed to be higher in fibroids <300 cm
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