As a result, researchers predicted that endometrial ablation procedures would reduce hysterectomy rates in premenopausal women with abnormal uterine bleeding (14;23).
In addition, the minimal change in hysterectomy may be partly explained as well, if hysterectomy follows failed ablations.
Those states with the largest increases in endometrial ablation do not consistently have the largest decrease in hysterectomy rates.
The former relates largely to tubal ligations while the latter is mainly hysterectomies.
Haemorrhage after puerperal hysterectomy may also originate from the infundibularpelvic ligament.
One of these four women has now had a hysterectomy.
Concern has been expressed for some time about the inappropriate use of hysterectomy (4;9).
Perhaps it was the hormone replacement therapy she was on for several years following her hysterectomy.
