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[1] [3] Someone can have one uterine fibroid or many. [1] It is uncommon but possible that fibroids may make it difficult to become pregnant. [1] The exact cause of uterine fibroids is unclear. [1] However, fibroids run in families and appear to be partly determined by hormone levels. [1] Risk factors include obesity and eating red meat. [1]
Leiomyoma enucleated from a uterus. External surface on left; cut surface on right. Micrograph of a small, well-circumscribed colonic leiomyoma arising from the muscularis mucosae and showing fascicles of spindle cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm and elongated, cigar-shaped nuclei Immunohistochemistry for β-catenin in uterine leiomyoma, which is negative as there is only staining of cytoplasm ...
In medicine, not otherwise specified (NOS) is a subcategory in systems of disease/disorder classification such as ICD-9, ICD-10, or DSM-IV. It is generally used to note the presence of an illness where the symptoms presented were sufficient to make a general diagnosis , but where a specific diagnosis was not made.
Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in the reproductive years, unrelated to pregnancy, is rarely life-threatening, but is frequently life altering. The symptoms frequently interfere with quality of life and those girls and women affected by chronic AUB spend significant amounts of personal resources on menstrual products and medications.
The disorder has almost disappeared in nations with advanced obstetrics, with only two early 20th century reports. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] But, within the last ten years, there were 28 nations in which fewer than half the births were attended by skilled birth attendants; they included Nigeria, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Bangladesh, each with more than 3 ...
Erica Chidi, co-founder and CEO of Loom, a women's health education platform, is making her private health journey -- a six-year battle with uterine fibroids -- public, she said, in hopes of ...
This is a list of mental disorders as defined in the DSM-IV, the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Published by the American Psychiatry Association (APA), it was released in May 1994, [1] superseding the DSM-III-R (1987).
291.3: Alcohol-induced psychotic disorder, with hallucinations: 291.89: Alcohol-induced sexual dysfunction: Coded 291.8 in the DSM-IV. 291.89: Alcohol-induced sleep disorder: Coded 291.8 in the DSM-IV. 291.9: Alcohol-related disorder NOS: 294.0: Amnestic disorder due to ... [indicate the general medical condition] 294.8: Amnestic disorder NOS ...