Batra Hospital & Medical Research Center, New delhi has always been at the forefront of bringing new medical technology for patient care. In its latest initiative for women's health care, Batra Hospital introduced a breakthrough technology of the 21st century medical advancement in women's health care in 2006 in the introduction of Non-Surgical treatment of uterine fibroids & uterine adenomyosis using Uterine Artery Embolization. after successfully performing the largest number of Uterine Artery Embolization for fibroid in entire country, Dr. Pradeep Muley M.D., Head & Senior Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Batra Hospital conducted a scientific session for gynecologist & general practitioners at Batra Hospital & Medical Research Center Auditorium, New Delhi. Dr Muley explained that Uterine Fibroids are the most frequent non cancerous tumors of the uterous and approximately 20-25 million Indian Women are at risk, during their childbearing age.

Depending on location, size and number of fibroids, they may cause -heavy, prolonged menstrual periods & unusual bleeding with clots. They usually leads to anemia. Lower abdominal, back or leg pain, lower abdominal pressure or heaviness, bladder pressure leading to a constant urge to urinate, pressure on bowl leading to constipation and bloating and abnormally enlarged abdomen are other pressure symptoms.

"Uterine Artery Embolization" to treat fibroids without surgery is a new kind of treatment. This new approach has many advantages like it is performed under local anesthesia, requires only a tiny nick in the skin (No surgical incision of abdomen), recovery is shorter than existing traditional surgery, all fibroids are treated at one sitting, no recurrent growth of treated fibroids. Uterine fibroid embolization involves virtually no blood loss or risk of blood tranfusion. Emotionally, financially and physically, embolization can have an overall advantage over other procedures for the patient, as the uterus is not removed.

The Scientific session was conducted under guidance of Dr Maheshwari sharma, Medical Director of Batra Hospital and was greatly appreciated by senior gynecologists & general practitioners of North India. They said that this procedure is also very helpful for high risk patients who are unfit for surgery due to various reasons like high blood pressure, obesity, chronic failure and diabetes mellitus. In addition, it is also beneficial to those patients who strongly want to preserve their uterus and wish to avoid major uterine surgery like hysterectmy.