Menorrhagia

Minimally invasive option treats women with heavy menstrual bleeding

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 19th, 2002

The recently FDA approved and patented NovaSure System brings hope to more than ten million women who suffer from heavy menstrual bleeding.

Menorrhagia can be so severe and disruptive that women commonly use up to 20 sanitary napkins or tampons in a day.

NovaSure can change a woman's life in a single 90-second treatment. This outpatient procedure is an alternative to hysterectomy, conventional endometrial ablation, and hormone therapy.

"The alternatives were unacceptable," said Michele Gerber, obstetrician/gynecologist with Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego, California. "Two hundred thousand hysterectomies performed each...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-12-19)

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