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During the reproductive years, bleeding that is excessively heavy (menorrhagia or heavy menstrual bleeding), occurs between monthly menstrual periods (intermenstrual bleeding), occurs more frequently than every 21 days (abnormal uterine bleeding), occurs too infrequently (oligomenorrhea), or occurs after vaginal intercourse (postcoital bleeding ...
In the UK the use of hysterectomy for heavy menstrual bleeding has been almost halved between 1989 and 2003. [70] This has a number of causes: better medical management, endometrial ablation and particularly the introduction of IUS [ 71 ] [ 72 ] which may be inserted in the community and avoid the need for specialist referral; in one study up ...
Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is a broad term used to describe any disruption in bleeding that involves the volume, duration, and/or regularity of flow. Bleeding may occur frequently or infrequently, and can occur between periods, after sexual intercourse, and after menopause. Bleeding during pregnancy is excluded. [12]
Intermenstrual bleeding (IMB), or metrorrhagia, is vaginal bleeding at irregular intervals between expected menstrual periods. [1] It may be associated with bleeding with sexual intercourse. [2] The term metrorrhagia, in which metro means measure and -rrhagia means abnormal flow, [3] is no longer recommended. [1]
[1] [5] Over the course of a year, roughly 20% of reproductive-aged women self-report at least one symptom of AUB. [2] As adenomyosis is a common disorder with a prevalence of 20-35% it is often causative related. Recent research suggests that abnormal angiogenesis is associated to conditions of adenomyosis leading to abnormal uterine bleeding.
Pregnant women like Brittany Watts, 33, have increasingly found themselves charged with “crimes against their own pregnancies,” a San José […] The post A Black woman was criminally charged ...
A 28-year-old Texas woman died in 2021 after her abortion care was delayed for over 40 hours as she was having a miscarriage, according to a new story from ProPublica. Josseli Barnica was told ...
Sowing confusion does nothing to protect women. [Opinion]