Patient 1 is 39 years old, and had been experiencing a significant amount of vaginal bleeding. She had improved with Lupron injections, but began having recurrent bleeding when the medication was discontinued. Below are her angiograms:

	a)before embolization, X-ray dye in the blood vessels shows a rounded collection of large vessels in the pelvis. This structure, about 8 inches in diameter, is the patient's fibroid.

	b) after embolization, the fibroid is no longer seen. This is because blood no longer reaches the fibroid.