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Hope for women with fibroids as new treatment saves fertility

 Dr Kireki Omanwa, the president of Kenya Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, during a meeting where Kenyan obstetricians and gynaecologists were developing guidelines for utilisation of the HIFU technology, in Nairobi.  [Gardy Chacha, Standard]

Fibroids are non-cancerous growths in the uterus that can cause pain heavy bleeding and discomfort in women. It is no surprise, therefore, that a woman might choose to have them removed.

Previously, a woman’s treatment options in Kenya were: drugs to ease the pain or to reduce heavy bleeding; open surgery to remove the fibroids (myomectomy) or the entire womb (hysterectomy); laparoscopic surgery to excise the growths; or Uterine artery embolization (UAE) – a minimally invasive surgery to cut off blood supply to the fibroids.

All of these options – except the drugs – carry the risk of making the uterus unable to carry a pregnancy, says Dr Kireki Omanwa, president of the Kenya Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society (KOGS). “ However, drugs do not treat the fibroid itself, but only manage the symptoms.”

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