Conclusion
Embolisation therapy particularly uterine artery embolisation can be
used as both an alternative to surgical management, and as an adjunct to
improve surgical outcomes including reducing intraoperative blood loss.
While valuable as an adjunct treatment to reduce intraoperative blood
loss, good surgical technique is still required to optimize patient
outcome.
Increased collaborative efforts between interventional radiology and
gynaecology would allow for patients to be fully informed on the
complete spectrum of surgical and nonsurgical treatment options
available to them.
Funding: This study was not supported by any funding.
Disclosure of interests: None declared
Ethical approval: The study was performed following the principles of
the Declaration of Helsinki. Data were obtained from medical records and
de-identified, with no direct participation of patients.
Contribution to authorship:
B.Suguna, S.Arjun, J.Surya: Data collection and management, data
analysis, writing and editing the article;
K.Mayadevi, J.Vijay: Conceptualization, protocol development
visualisation ,supervision, writing – review and editing the article .
Declaration of Competing interest: The authors declare that they have no
conflict of interest.
Acknowledgement: Sherley Mathen, Zareena Khalid, Shamema AS and Teena
Joy for their contribution to the case series. Rohit Nair for his
valuable inputs on the article.