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Fertility and Sterility

Volume 94, Issue 6, November 2010, Pages 2421-2423
Fertility and Sterility

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Pregnancy-related fibroid reduction

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We tested the hypothesis that the protective effect of parity on fibroids is due to direct pregnancy-related effects by following women from early pregnancy to postpartum period with ultrasound. Of 171 women with one initial fibroid, 36% had no identifiable fibroid at the time of postpartum ultrasound, and 79% of the remaining fibroids decreased in size.

Key Words

Leiomyoma
postpartum
pregnancy
ultrasound
uterine remodeling

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S.K.L. has nothing to disclose. A.H.H. has nothing to disclose. D.A.S. has nothing to disclose. A.F.O. has nothing to disclose. J.R.F. has nothing to disclose. K.E.H. has nothing to disclose. D.D.B. has nothing to disclose.

The work was conducted as part of the Right from the Start study. The parent study received support from the American Water Works Association Research Foundation under contract no. 2579 (D.A.S.); Pfizer Scholars Grants for Faculty Development in Clinical Epidemiology (K.E.H.), and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grants RO1 HD043883-04 and HD049675: “Consequences and Course of Uterine Fibroids in Pregnancy” (K.E.H.). S.K.L. was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Women's Health Fellowships in Intramural Women's Health Research. The postpartum data collection research was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (P30ES10126).