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title: Does a medical procedure for fibroids help premenstrual symptoms?
description: In women undergoing the procedure for fibroids or adenomyosis, back pain, headache, and digestive symptoms improved significantly. Women with heavy menstrual
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/the-effect-of-uterine-artery-embolization-on-premenstrual-symptoms-in-patients-2014/
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- Does a medical procedure for fibroids help premenstrual symptoms?

Cohort study, 2014

# Does a medical procedure for fibroids help premenstrual symptoms?

In women undergoing the procedure for fibroids or adenomyosis, back pain, headache, and digestive symptoms improved significantly. Women with heavy menstrual bleeding saw greater improvement overall.

 Early or limited evidence

141 women undergoing uterine artery embolization for fibroids or adenomyosis (39 women with analyzed premenstrual symptoms)

## What they did

Cohort study of 141 women who underwent uterine artery embolization (a procedure for fibroids or adenomyosis). In 39 of these women, 54 premenstrual symptoms were tracked. Women rated symptoms before and 3 to 6 months after the procedure on a scale of 0 to 10.

## What they found

Back pain, headache, and gastrointestinal symptoms significantly improved after the procedure. Muscle pain, fatigue, nervousness, breast tenderness, and swelling also improved but not significantly. Women with heavy bleeding showed greater improvement in overall premenstrual symptom scores (mean change -6.4 versus -3.7).

## What it means for you

A procedure for fibroids or adenomyosis may help some premenstrual symptoms, particularly in women with heavy bleeding. The main limitation is that this only applies to women with fibroids or adenomyosis, not to women with PMS alone.

141

total women undergoing procedure

39

women with analyzed symptoms

-6.4 vs -3.7

symptom score improvement (with vs without heavy bleeding)

## About the study

Original title The effect of uterine artery embolization on premenstrual symptoms in patients with symptomatic fibroids or adenomyosis Authors Jang D, Kim MD, Lee SJ et al. Journal Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR Year 2014 Study design Cohort study Participants 141 What was tested Uterine artery embolization Open access Yes Read the paper [doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2014.01.036](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2014.01.036)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Pain and headache](https://niyora.com/research/topics/symptom-pain/)[IBS and gut symptoms](https://niyora.com/research/topics/comorbidity-ibs-gi/)

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