OVARIAN VENOGRAPHY & OVARIAN VEIN EMBOLIZATION


For pelvic congestion syndrome. Women with chronic pelvic pain of unknown origin may have pelvic congestion syndrome due to varicosities of the ovarian veins. These women may have increasing pain with standing late in the day, post coital pain or vulvar varicosities. This can only be reliably diagnosed with venography, and can be treated percutaneously similar to male varicocele occlusion. Frequently these patients and their physicians are quite frustrated in the unsuccessful pursuit of the cause for chronic pelvic pain.

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