Recommended Books on Fibroids
Coping With Fibroids (Overcoming Common Problems Series) Fibroids are a surprisingly common problem, often causing painful periods, anemia, and infertility. This book explains in clear terms what fibroids are and what causes them, and details the diferent treatment options, including drugs, surgery, and alternative therapies. Until recently, most women were offered hysterectomy for troublesome fibroids, but now there is a variety of other approaches to consider. Mary-Claire Mason explains the choices that are available to you, and suggests ways to cope from day to day.
The H Word: The diagnostic studies to evaluate symptoms, alternatives in treatment, and coping with the aftereffects of hysterectomy. THE H WORD discusses the common reasons hysterectomy is recommended, the diagnostic studies that should be performed to obtain a diagnosis, alternatives in treatment, and strategies to help women cope with the lifelong aftereffects of removal of the uterus and ovaries. It revolutionizes our understanding of female anatomy and the important lifelong functions of the female organs, while revealing a solution to the complex problem of hysterectomy performed without the information that is necessary for informed consent. The HERS Foundation¹s 51-city, 51-week Protest & Play tour provides the backdrop for THE H WORD, which takes an unflinching look at the environment of hysterectomy in America. THE H WORD empowers women with information that gynecology doesn¹t want you to know about 100 years of hysterectomy in America, as experienced by women in every state of the country. Give this book to a gynecologist.
Fibroids, Menstruation, Childbirth, and Evolution: The Fascinating Story of Uterine Blood Vessels In the ancestral environment, a human female typically carried at least half a dozen babies to term. The fact that modern women are able to limit the number of children they bear has dramatic consequences for the incidence of uterine fibroids, as well as the clinical care of fibroids patients. Fibroids, Menstruation, Childbirth, and Evolution explores these connections, integrating a vast amount of medical knowledge about the uterus into one volume.
During pregnancy, the mother's blood prepares for an enormous hemostatic event: the delivery of the placenta. That fetal organ is the vascular link between mother and offspring. At childbirth, one-tenth of mother's cardiac output flows through the placenta, feeding the growing child. When the placenta is sheared away from its attachment to the uterus, two hundred large uteroplacental arteries are ripped apart and bleed profusely into the uterine cavity. For many hours following delivery, uterine contractions slow blood flow within the uterus, allowing the high concentration of clotting factors built up in the mother's blood during pregnancy to solidify throughout the uterine circulation and stop blood loss. Then, hours later, the tide reverses, most of these uterine blood clots dissolve, and more normal blood flow returns to the uterus. This amazing process occurs with each pregnancy. During this process, the uterus is ischemic and hypoxic. Unlike brain and heart, which can only survive minutes of decreased blood flow, the uterus can withstand dramatically diminished blood flow for hours. In fact, it is natural for this to occur once every few years. Uterine ischemia and hypoxia are a natural part of every woman's genetic makeup. In 1995 a group of French physicians discovered that it was possible to emulate the physiology of childbirth by stopping blood flow to the uterus with small plastic particles. Initially, they injected these particles to diminish blood loss during subsequent fibroid surgery. However, they soon learned that the injection of these particles was therapeutic in and of itself for women with symptomatic fibroids. Unbeknownst to this French group, earlier, in 1964, an American physician surgically occluded the uterine arteries to treat women without fibroids who had excessive monthly menstrual blood loss. Subsequent physicians have occluded the uterine arteries in various ways to treat a third common disorder, adenomyosis. Finally, these clinical successes suggest that future episodes of endometriosis may be preventable in some women treated with uterine artery closure. Dr. Fred Burbank's comprehensive book provides insight into how physicians can use uterine artery closure techniques to more effectively treat uterine disorders. In addition, his book contains short courses on magnetic resonance imaging, hemodynamics, uterine artery embolization, and the hemostatic and hemolytic systems, making it possible for readers less familiar with these complex subjects to understand the text without referring to outside sources. About the Author Dr. Burbank is an epidemiologist, a psychiatrist, a diagnostic radiologist, a cardiovascular interventionalist, and an expert in women's health. He is also an inventor-entrepreneur. For recreation, he flies, swims, and reads. For more information, please visit his bio on www.saltcreekmedical.com.
Renewing Female Balance: Pms, Breast & Uterine Fibroids, Ovarian Cysts, Endometriosis, & More Women can have a great deal of confidence that herbal therapy will work for them. Topics in this book include: PMS, yeast infections, water retention, fatigue, Endometriosis, Fibroids, Ovarian cysts, Vaginal yeast infections, and STDs.
Pathogenesis and Medical Management of Uterine Fibroids This is an advanced clinical reference text on the pathogenesis, clinical aspects, and treatment of uterine fibroids in thirteen chapters by an international team of highly placed experts in obstetrics and gynecology, reproductive medicine and science, reproductive endocrinology, and pathology. The pathogenesis section focuses on uterine leiomyomas, including histogenesis, sex steroidal regulation, sex hormone action, growth factors, mesenchymal tumors, and group I proteins. The chapters on clinical aspects cover epidemiology, three-dimensional and color Doppler assessment, and clinicopathological features. Four chapters on medical therapy of uterine fibroids cover short-term therapy and gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, progestogens and antiestrogens, GnRH antagonists, and the role of RU 486 (Mifepristone) in uterine fibroid treatment. Includes bibliographic references and index.
FIBROIDS: What Every Woman Should Know About this Uterine Foe This book is about a clear,concise explanation of fibroids and their treatments.¿ Fibroids are common benign tumors of theuterus that have been most frequently treated by hysterectomies.¿ A hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus, however, by removing the uterus, reproductivepotential is eliminated.¿ Most women donot wish to lose their reproductive organs whether or not they are interestedin childbearing functioning.The authors,Myron E. Moorehead, M.D.¿ and Bryan A. Lewis,Ph.D. wrote the book to inform women who have been diagnosed with symptomaticfibroids that there are viable alternatives to hysterectomies for thesuccessful treatment of fibroids.¿Physicians must respond to the strong and growing desire of many womento have a voice in their health care and they must be professionally obligatedto communicate to their patients the option of treatment.¿¿ Today, women want to be informed and activeparticipants rather than passive subjects.¿¿No woman should be subjected to a hysterectomy because of fibroidsunless she has been fully informed about the alternative and agrees to thedecision.
Fibroid Tumors Healed Naturally: A Personal Journey Shared With Specific How-To's This book was written by a woman who was actually healed naturally of fibroid tumors and is supported by a foreword written by a board certified doctor, obstetrician / gynecologist.
Sex, Lies, and the Truth about Uterine Fibroids The most authoritative book available on uterine fibroids.
Approximately one in four women in the United States will be diagnosed with uterine fibroids in her lifetime. And for many women, the only course of treatment they may be offered is hysterectomy. As a result, hysterectomy is the number-one surgical procedure undergone by women in the United States, with some forty-five percent of these operations performed because of uterine fibroids.
Women do, however, have choices; and Carla Dionne, the founder of the National Uterine Fibroids Foundation (NUFF), is a compassionate advocate to millions of women looking for alternatives. Initially diagnosed with uterine fibroids at age twenty-eight, she was told that hysterectomy was her only viable option. Her journey and struggle to uncover the facts about her condition and to explore all of the alternatives to radical hysterectomy motivated her to establish a website, the foundation, and to write this book.
Illuminated throughout with personal anecdotes from the author and hundreds of other women, Sex, Lies, and the Truth About Uterine Fibroids is a compelling and supportive guide to understanding the full range of treatments available-including uterine fibroid embolization, which has been widely successful. The book covers traditional, surgical, and alternative therapies and provides key information necessary to determine the best choices.
The First Year--Fibroids: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed When Johanna Skilling was diagnosed with fibroids in 1995, she found little information, advice, and support for her condition. Fibroids—though an estimated eight in ten women will be affected in their lifetime—has remained a little talked about condition in the medical world. In an effort to be proactive in the management and treatment of her condition, Skilling became a "patient-expert" on fibroids—by reading medical and scientific books and journals, talking with doctors, and networking with other people who have fibroids. Now she shares her experience and knowledge with everyone who has been newly diagnosed. With great sensitivity, Skilling walks the newly diagnosed step-by-step through everything one needs to do and learn each day of the first week after diagnosis, each subsequent week of the first month, and the following eleven months of the crucial first year.
In clear, concise, accessible language, Skilling covers a wide range of practical, medical, and lifestyle issues, beginning with coming to terms with the diagnosis and then moving on to subjects including: § Treatment options § Current medical research and medications § Strategies for making necessary lifestyle changes § Guidelines and tips for modifying your diet § Stress management and exercise § Discussing your condition with family, friends, and co-workers § Handling sexual and social issues § Effective alternative therapies § Support group resources By providing reliable, useful, empathetic, and up-to-date information you need to know when you most need to know it, is an indispensable guide for every woman coming to terms with a fibroids diagnosis.
Uterine Fibroids: The Complete Guide (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
You've called in sick today. Your back and legs hurt. Your abdomen is bloated and more than a little uncomfortable. You are having your period, and the bleeding is so heavy you can't even think about leaving the house. You have uterine fibroids. One in every four women see their lives affected by uterine fibroids, which can cause heavy bleeding, abdominal bloating, pain, and infertility. The symptoms can be mildly annoying or life altering in severity. Until recently, hysterectomy was the only way to cure fibroids, and each year more than 200,000 hysterectomies are performed in the United States to treat these noncancerous growths. But hysterectomy isn't always the best solution. The procedure can be devastating for women who were planning to get pregnant, and it is a significant surgery for anyone. In this comprehensive and compassionate guide, Dr. Elizabeth A. Stewart helps women understand the treatment options now available. An internationally recognized expert on fibroids, Dr. Stewart describes all the available medical and surgical treatments as well as alternative and complementary therapies. In addition to hysterectomy, she explains uterine artery embolization (UAE), noninvasive focused ultrasound (FUS), and innovative hormone treatments. Simple diagrams and photographs illustrate the condition -- and its treatment. Dr. Stewart encourages women with fibroids to learn as much as they can before choosing a treatment plan. Providing the most reliable and up-to-date information on this very common and difficult disorder, she helps women understand uterine fibroids and make the best possible choices about their care.
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