Endometrial resection. A modern treatment of menorrhagia

In general menorrhagia is poorly understood and tends to be unsatisfactorily treated. The word menorrhagia is derived from the Greek men month and rhegynai, to burst forth. Patients complain of increased menstrual loss, requiring more sanitary protection, or of the passage of clots. Most patients with menorrhagia have no significant uterine abnormality and the woman's interpretation of her blood loss is insufficient and unreliable. Menorrhagia must be defined in terms of measured menstrual blood loss. Many medications effectively diminish blood loss, but the symptoms usually return after the therapy has been stopped. Long term treatment is also restricted due to the potential side effects associated with some drugs.