title: Clinical efficiency investigation of laparoscopic uterine artery occlusion combined with myomectomy for uterine fibroids.
abstract: To investigate the effectiveness of laparoscopic uterine artery occlusion combined with myomectomy for uterine fibroids. From August 2008 to August 2009, forty-eight women with uterine fibroids desiring to preserve their uteri underwent laparoscopic myomectomy. Among them, 18 women received laparoscopic uterine artery occlusion before uterine myomectomy while the others received laparoscopic myomectomy only. All of the 48 cases with uterine fibroids underwent laparoscopic myomectomy successfully, and no patient developed Intraoperative or postoperative complications. The average operation time was (105.6±27.6) min, and the average surgical blood loss was (87.52±18.35) ml. Blocking uterine artery before laparoscopic myomectomy is valuable and feasible for the management of women with symptomatic fibroids. Adopting this method can obtain pleasing therapeutic effect. The method can reduce blood loss thus make the surgical field clean and clear, and it can reduce the operating time and recurrence rate. It can also reduce electro-coagulation on the surgical surface and therefore cause less tissue necrosis and lower incidence of complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University Jiangsu, China.
authors.forename: Xiang-Hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University Jiangsu, China.
authors.forename: Ling-Ling
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University Jiangsu, China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University Jiangsu, China.
authors.forename: Jing-Zhe
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University Jiangsu, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Medical College of Yangzhou University Jiangsu, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Ping
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Ji
keywords: Laparoscopy; myomectomy; uterine artery occlusion