Hysterectomy

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a draft recommendation that women aged 21 to 65 years be regularly screened for cervical cancer.

Women with severe maternal morbidity after first childbirth have a lower likelihood of pursuing subsequent births, highlighting the need for reproductive counseling and better prenatal care, according to study results published in JAMA.

DENVER — Bilateral oophorectomy was common during gender-affirming hysterectomy and associated with younger age, prior testosterone use and male identity, according to study results presented at the ASRM Scientific Congress & Expo.

DENVER — Women undergoing endometrial biopsy using vaginoscopic hysteroscopy reported less pain and were discharged sooner when the procedure was performed with intrauterine lidocaine compared with placebo, researchers reported.

Women aged 30 years or younger were more likely to report feelings of surgical and loss-of-fertility regret after undergoing laparoscopic hysterectomy vs. women aged 31 to 49 years, researchers reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Among a select group of women with uterine factor infertility, uterus transplant was feasible and associated with a high live birth rate after successful graft survival, data from a case series show.

SAN FRANCISCO — Supportive interventions to improve knowledge of options and barriers for patients and surgeons may reduce racial disparities in minimally invasive hysterectomy, researchers reported.

  Healio spoke to Ashley Haggerty, MD, a board certified, fellowship-trained gynecologic oncologist at Hackensack Meridian Medical Group about obesity in endometrial cancer patients.

Transvaginal ultrasonography triage resulted in misclassification for more than one in 10 Black women, suggesting it is not a reliable strategy to identify Black women at risk for endometrial cancer, according to a diagnostic study.

Women treated for uterine fibroids had greater risks for long-term reintervention after uterine artery embolization, endometrial ablation and hysteroscopic myomectomy vs. abdominal, laparoscopic or vaginal myomectomy, researchers reported.