Interventional Radiology Chicago

Description : Chronic Pelvic Pain Treatment Pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) is a pelvic pain syndrome due to internal, usually invisible, varicose veins in the pelvis. They are fed abnormally high pressure by abnormal, enlarged ovarian veins. Patients may have chronic aching or burning pain, sometimes worse with menses, worse when active, better after sleep. They usually have a negative work up for other causes of pelvic pain. The syndrome is more common after having had multiple pregnancies. Patients are sometimes classified as being nuts. They can reliably be seen on a simple outpatient test called an ovarian venogram. A small catheter is slipped into a vein after numbing the skin and steered into the abnormal veins. This is not painful. Dye is injected to map them, then they are blocked (embolized) with platinum coils and sclerosing agents. This outpatient procedure may relieve the pain immediately. Interventional Radiology Chicago have performed this procedure for over 10 years. Pelvic congestion syndrome is poorly understood by much of the medical community,and certainly is under-diagnosed. Website: http://virchicago.com/chronic-pelvic-pain-in-women/ Contact Us: (630) 856-7460 Contact Email: info@virchicago.com