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Professor Mark Whiteley
Mark Whiteley
What is the link between Pelvic Congestion Syndrome and pregnancy?
Professor Mark Whiteley details the link between Pelvic Congestion Syndrome and pregnancy, explaining that the relationship is complex and can appear before or after pregnancy.
Transcript
The relationship between pelvic congestion syndrome and pregnancy is complex, depending on whether you're talking about before or after. It does appear that when you've been pregnant, if you've already got pelvic vein reflux, then the veins get bigger afterwards and then it becomes more symptomatic and more obvious. But a lot of patients who have not been pregnant do have pelvic congestion syndrome, so it's not caused by pregnancy. When you do coil embolisation, you can get pregnant afterwards, and we've published a paper showing that the coils don't seem to move even if you have a subsequent pregnancy.