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Uterine fibroids

Australia

• Better Safer Care
  • Hysterectomy for asymptomatic fibroids

• Human Reproduction
  • First Australian estimates of incidence and prevalence of uterine fibroids: a data linkage cohort study 2000-2022 [2024]

Australia, New Zealand

• Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology
  • Quality care guidelines for uterine artery embolisation in women with symptomatic uterine fibroids in Australia and New Zealand: According to the AGREE-II checklist and endorsed by the Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia [2022]

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Uterine artery embolisation for the treatment of uterine fibroids [2020]
  • Fibroids in infertility [2018]

Austria, Germany, Switzerland

• RöFo
  • Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE) for Fibroid Treatment: Results of the 6th Radiological Gynecological Expert Meeting [2017]
  • MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound in Fibroid Treatment - Results of the 3rd Radiological-Gynecological Expert Meeting [2017]
  • Uterine Artery Embolization (UAE) for Fibroid Treatment--Results of the 5th Radiological Gynecological Expert Meeting [2015]
  • Magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound for fibroid treatment--results of the second radiological gynecological expert meeting [2015]

Canada

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • The past, present, and future of selective progesterone receptor modulators in the management of uterine fibroids [2018]

• CMAJ Open
  • Quality of ultrasonography reporting and factors associated with selection of imaging modality for uterine fibroids in Canada: results from a prospective cohort registry [2020]

• Current Medical Research and Opinion
  • Contemporary management of uterine fibroids: focus on emerging medical treatments [2015]

• Ontario Health
  • Magnetic Resonance–Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) Treatment of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids: An Evidence-Based Analysis [2015]
  • Magnetic Resonance-Guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) for Treatment of Symptomatic Uterine Fibroids: An Economic Analysis [2015]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Medical Management of Symptomatic Uterine Leiomyomas – An Addendum [2019]
  • The Management of Uterine Leiomyomas [2015]
  • The Management of Uterine Fibroids in Women With Otherwise Unexplained Infertility [2015]

Europe

• Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe
  • Uterine Artery Embolization for Symptomatic Leiomyomata [2015]

• European Medicines Agency
  • Suspension of ulipristal acetate for uterine fibroids during ongoing EMA review of liver injury risk [2020]

• European Menopause and Andropause Society
  • EMAS position statement: Management of uterine fibroids [2014]

• European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy
  • European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) Good Practice Recommendations on surgical techniques for removal of fibroids: part 1 abdominal (laparoscopic and open) myomectomy [2024]
  • European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) Good Practice Recommendations on surgical techniques for Removal of Fibroids: Part 2 Hysteroscopic Myomectomy [2024]

• European Society of Urogenital Radiology
  • European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) Guidelines: MR Imaging of Leiomyomas [2018]

Germany

• Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care
  • Magnetic resonance imaging-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy for uterine fibroids [2017]

International

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Epidemiology of uterine fibroids: a systematic review [2017]

• BMC Public Health
  • Global, regional, and national time trends in incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability for uterine fibroids, 1990-2019: an age-period-cohort analysis for the global burden of disease 2019 study [2023]

• Chinese Medical Journal
  • Global and regional trends in the incidence and prevalence of uterine fibroids and attributable risk factors at the national level from 2010 to 2019: A worldwide database study [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • The risk of preterm birth in women with uterine fibroids: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

Italy

• Gynecological Endocrinology
  • Awareness, burden and treatment of uterine fibroids: a web-based Italian survey [2025]

Portugal

• Ginekologia Polska
  • The impact of anemia on treatment management and clinical outcomes of women hospitalized for uterine leiomyomas [2022]

Spain

• International Journal of Women's Health
  • Updated approaches for management of uterine fibroids [2017]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMJ Open
  • Epidemiology of uterine fibroid in black African women: a systematic scoping review [2022]

United Kingdom

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Uterine artery embolisation versus myomectomy for premenopausal women with uterine fibroids wishing to avoid hysterectomy: the FEMME RCT [2022]

• Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  • Ulipristal acetate 5mg (Esmya): further restrictions due to risk of serious liver injury [2021]
  • Esmya (ulipristal acetate): suspension of the licence due to risk of serious liver injury [2020]
  • Esmya (ulipristal acetate) for uterine fibroids: do not initiate or re-start treatment; monitor liver function in current and recent users [2018]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • Linzagolix for treating moderate to severe symptoms of uterine fibroids [2024]
  • Relugolix–estradiol–norethisterone acetate for treating moderate to severe symptoms of uterine fibroids [2022]
  • Transcervical ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation for symptomatic uterine fibroids [2021]
  • Sonata system for diagnostic imaging and treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids [2021]
  • Laparoscopic removal of uterine fibroids with power morcellation [2021]
  • Hysteroscopic mechanical tissue removal (hysteroscopic morcellation) for uterine fibroids [2021]
  • Ultrasound-guided high-intensity transcutaneous focused ultrasound for symptomatic uterine fibroids [2019]
  • Magnetic resonance image-guided transcutaneous focused ultrasound for uterine fibroids [2011]
  • Uterine artery embolisation for fibroids [2010]

• Right Decisions
  • Uterine Fibroids

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Uterine Artery Embolisation in the Management of Fibroids [2013]

United States

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Management of Uterine Fibroids [2017]

• American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists
  • Radiofrequency Ablation for the Treatment of Uterine Fibroids: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by the AAGL Practice Committee [2025]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Uterine Morcellation for Presumed Leiomyomas [2021]

• American College of Radiology
  • Management of Uterine Fibroids
  • Fibroids

• American Family Physician
  • Uterine Fibroids: Diagnosis and Treatment [2017]

• American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • The Estimated Annual Cost of Uterine Leiomyomata in the United States [2012]

• American Society for Reproductive Medicine
  • Removal of myomas in asymptomatic patients to improve fertility and/or reduce miscarriage rate: a guideline [2017]
  • Fibroids or Myomas or Leiomyomas

• Endocrine Reviews
  • Comprehensive Review of Uterine Fibroids: Developmental Origin, Pathogenesis, and Treatment [2022]

• Journal of Women's Health
  • Treatment Patterns in Patients with Uterine Fibroids With and Without a Diagnosis of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding: Results from a Large U.S. Claims Database [2023]

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  • Natural history of fibroids in pregnancy: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Fetal Growth Studies - Singletons cohort [2022]
  • Uterine Fibroids

• Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Trends in Emergency Department Utilization Among Women With Leiomyomas in the United States [2021]

• Society for Women's Health Research
  • Uterine Fibroids: Assessing Unmet Needs from Bench to Bedside [2021]

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