Treatment of uterine fibroids with catheters in the eye

Dr. Jamal Al-Din Al-Qutaish, Director of the Radiology Department at Al Ain Hospital and a Consultant and Head of Interventional Radiology, a Fellow of the British Royal College, revealed that Al Ain Hospital is the only specialized hospital in the country that treats uterine fibroids through catheters.

Where the patient is received and a procedure is performed in a day and takes an hour without surgery or anesthesia, through a small 2 mm hole in the groin area through minute catheters to reach the areas of the arteries feeding the fibers and they are closed with plastic granules, so the fiber dies and does not grow after that during pregnancy, and it requires the The patient stays in the hospital after performing the medical procedure for 8 hours and then can leave, and the rate of improvement of symptoms is 95%, and in Al Ain Hospital, a catheterization process has been performed for 300 women so far, and the patient requires a review to the hospital after 3 months in which the MRI is repeated The magnetic field of the area where the fibers have accumulated, and patients are often followed up for a year and a half, meaning every 6 months one review is done.

20%

Dr. Jamal Al-Din Al-Qutaish explained that uterine fibrosis is a common disease in women, as 20% of women over the age of forty suffer from uterine fibrosis.

Dr. Al-Qutaish called uterine fibrosis the name of the disease of women who suffer silently, and one of its symptoms is pressure on the bladder that leads to frequent urination, and one of its most prominent symptoms is the heavy menstrual cycle, or pain in the pelvic area before or after the menstrual cycle, or the occurrence of heavy bleeding It leads to anemia.

Reasons

Dr. Jamal Al-Din Al-Qutaish confirmed that the Interventional Radiology Department, since the beginning of the year until now, has received 3 patients with uterine fibrosis every week, indicating that the main cause of fiber disease is a genetic component.