Transradial approach to uterine fibroid embolization (UFE)

10/02/23 • 52 min

There’s a game changer in the treatment of uterine fibroids. Women whose lives are compromised by pain, long periods, severe bleeding, anemia and other symptoms of the muscular tumors, can opt for an embolization through the wrist. Known as transradial uterine fibroid embolization, or UFE, the doctor access the uterus though a single tiny opening in the wrist, while the patient is under twilight sedation. Most procedures take less than an hour and patients go home the same day. Dr. Brian Swehla, chief of interventional radiology at MedStar Health, has all the details about fibroids and this procedure, in this week’s episode of MedStar Health DocTalk.

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Hope for Kienbock's disease: the mysterious wrist condition

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Kienbock’s disease, a debilitating condition where a wrist bone collapses and dies, has no known cause.
Typically affecting young men in their teens or twenties, untreated Kienbock’s disease can result in progressive arthritis in the wrist and loss of function. For no clear reason, the lunate, one of eight small bones in the wrist, loses blood supply and the bone collapses. But how common is this extremely painful disease? And how can it be treated?
On this episode of DocTalk, the chief of the Curtis National Hand Center, James Higgins, MD, explains this condition and vascularized bone transfer - the microscopic procedure he pioneered for its treatment. Learn more about the symptoms and progression of Keinbock’s disease, and how bone, cartilage, and blood vessels are affected.
Dr. Higgins sees patients at the Curtis National Hand Center at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
To learn more about the Curtis National Hand Center, visit: https://www.medstarhealth.org/locations/curtis-national-hand-center
For an appointment with one of our expert hand surgeons, call 877-864-HAND (4263).

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Lung cancer: what is it, where is it, and how do we treat it?

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Medical oncologist Dr. Joshua Reuss, an expert in lung cancer, mesothelioma and thymoma, and pulmonologist Dr. Rebecca Krochmal, an expert in benign and malignant airway and pleural disease, both with MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., address questions related to finding and treating lung cancer.
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