Pregnancy-related Fibroid Reduction

Overview

Journal Fertil Steril

Specialty Reproductive Medicine

Date 2010 May 11

PMID 20451187

Citations 33

Authors

Shannon K Laughlin

Amy H Herring

David A Savitz

Andrew F Olshan

Julia R Fielding

Katherine E Hartmann

Donna D Baird

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Abstract

We tested the hypothesis that the protective effect of parity on fibroids is due to direct pregnancy-related effects by following women from early pregnancy to postpartum period with ultrasound. Of 171 women with one initial fibroid, 36% had no identifiable fibroid at the time of postpartum ultrasound, and 79% of the remaining fibroids decreased in size.

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