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mridulaben
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 Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:05 am Post subject: Endometrial ablation |
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| About 50% of all hysterectomies can be avoided |
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wolverine
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Theoretically true. Menorrhagia accounts for 50% of hysterectomies performed in the UK. Therefore with a 100% success (or satisfaction rate) of an ablative method you could avoid 50% of all hysterectomies. Till today there is no such method therefore I'd say false. Despite the advances in conservative surgery for menorrhagia, the hysterectomy rate is mostly unaffected |
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Nick Raine-Fenning
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You need to read, or have just read, the recent NICE Guideline launch realting to Heavy Menstrual Bleeding (HMB).
I read a review in the Times this morning at the airport, following the launch, and it said we should be aiming for 20% so a 50% reduction would seem about right. Quoted a few well known gynaecologists so has to be true :p
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rpwalavalkar
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I'll go with TRUE.
have read the HMB draft, 50% seems correct.
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