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Chapter 7 - Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

from Section 2 - Menstrual Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2021

By
Essam Hadoura  and
Tahir Mahmood
Edited by
Tahir Mahmood ,
Charles Savona-Ventura ,
Ioannis Messinis  and
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Tahir Mahmood
Affiliation:
Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy
Charles Savona-Ventura
Affiliation:
University of Malta, Malta
Ioannis Messinis
Affiliation:
University of Thessaly, Greece
Sambit Mukhopadhyay
Affiliation:
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, UK
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Summary

Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a common condition that affects 20–30% of women during their reproductive lifetime and has a major impact on women’s quality of life. It is usually defined as, ‘excessive menstrual blood loss which interferes with a woman’s physical, emotional, social wellbeing and/or material quality of life’, which can occur alone or in combination with other symptoms [1].

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heavy menstrual bleedingHMBabnormal uterine bleeding
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The EBCOG Postgraduate Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Gynaecology
 , pp. 55 - 64
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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