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Fibroids: Symptoms, Causes, & Treatments
May 29, 2020
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Dr. Zina Semenovskaya
Dr. Semenovskaya specializes in emergency medicine, and received her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College. She is currently the medical director at Remote Emergency Medicine Consulting, LLC and splits her time working clinically as an emergency medicine attending in California and Alaska. She is the first of our doctors to be fluent in Russian.
Uterine fibroids, also known as leiomyomas or myomas, are non-cancerous tumors that grow inside a woman’s uterus (womb). While uterine fibroids are common, with 20-80% of women experiencing them before turning 50, not all women who have them realize it. Depending on their size, number, and location, fibroids symptoms vary from pain and heavy bleeding to no symptoms at all.
Sometimes, women discover they have uterine fibroids during a routine pelvic exam. In other instances, symptoms like pelvic pressure and menstrual cycle complications lead to a diagnosis of uterine fibroids. Symptoms may be more severe when a woman has more or larger fibroids.
The treatment of uterine fibroids varies from case to case—for some, doctors will adopt a “watch and wait” approach, while for others, a doctor may recommend surgery.
In this article, I’ll explore:
“Often, fibroids are diagnosed during routine pelvic exams when a doctor feels a mass on the uterus with their fingers.”
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by
Dr. Zina Semenovskaya
Dr. Semenovskaya specializes in emergency medicine, and received her medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College. She is currently the medical director at Remote Emergency Medicine Consulting, LLC and splits her time working clinically as an emergency medicine attending in California and Alaska. She is the first of our doctors to be fluent in Russian.
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