REPORTING ADVERSE EFFECTS OF
UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION (UAE):

NOTICE:
No one is going to report your adverse effects of UAE to the FDA or to your State Medical Board except for YOU.

Reporting to your doctor bad side effects, or to those who are conducting a clinical trial or study does NOT mean that the FDA is being notified of your negative outcome.   The fact is when UAE clinical trials and studies are done and negative outcomes manifest (hysterectomy, ovarian failure, etc...) those conducting the study are allowed to exclude certian numbers and term that attempt as "Treatment Failed".  

Your numbers are NOT being counted!

Outcomes such as death, hysterectomy, ovarian failure, radiation burns,
are not being investigated or reported on.

To report an adverse outcome to your state medical board or to the FDA begin by submitting a Primary Complaint Intake Form. 

Each state has a governmental regulatory board that serves to protect citizens form unethical doctors or dangerous medical practices. Their duties include licensing doctors, overseeing the activities of the physicians who offer services in their state, investigating when a complaint is made, and disciplining doctors when their actions merit so. Disciplinary actions can range from ordering further education and training to revoking the physicians medical license. Filing a complaint with your state medical board is not a lawsuit.

As a consumer of medical services you have a right and a duty to wage a complaint if you believe you were uninformed, mislead, treated unfairly, or injured by a physician or treatment while in any medical setting.  If your physician did not properly inform you before your uterine artery embloization, if your current doctor is not offering you help or treatment, or if any doctor or medical professional in any field of practice has ever acted unethically or inappropriately, your state board needs to be notified.

As the PCV pellets/foam used in UAE and the arteriogram/fluoroscopy (x-ray) are a medical devices  governed by the FDA, adverse outcomes after UAE needs to be reported to the FDA.  Directions for reporting to the FDA are provided upon filing your Primary Complaint Intake Form.