Conclusion
Embolisation therapy particularly uterine artery embolisation can be used as both an alternative to surgical management, and as an adjunct to improve surgical outcomes including reducing intraoperative blood loss. While valuable as an adjunct treatment to reduce intraoperative blood loss, good surgical technique is still required to optimize patient outcome.
Increased collaborative efforts between interventional radiology and gynaecology would allow for patients to be fully informed on the complete spectrum of surgical and nonsurgical treatment options available to them.
Funding: This study was not supported by any funding.
Disclosure of interests: None declared
Ethical approval: The study was performed following the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Data were obtained from medical records and de-identified, with no direct participation of patients.
Contribution to authorship:
B.Suguna, S.Arjun, J.Surya: Data collection and management, data analysis, writing and editing the article;
K.Mayadevi, J.Vijay: Conceptualization, protocol development visualisation ,supervision, writing – review and editing the article .
Declaration of Competing interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Acknowledgement: Sherley Mathen, Zareena Khalid, Shamema AS and Teena Joy for their contribution to the case series. Rohit Nair for his valuable inputs on the article.