Gynecology

Uterine Bleeding

Signs and Symptoms
Diagnosis
Treatment

Treatment

Abnormal bleeding may be treated with hormones such as oral contraceptive pills. Sometimes hysteroscopy is required to remove a polyp or small fibroid. Heavy bleeding often can be controlled by endometrial ablation, a procedure in which the uterine lining is removed or destroyed, resulting in decreased or absent bleeding. Some women choose hysterectomy, removal of the uterus, as the most definitive way of ending abnormal bleeding once and for all.

Reviewed by health care specialists at UCSF Medical Center.
Last updated February 28, 2008