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November 21, 2008  
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  • Fibroids1: What is the success rate of the UFE treatment?
    Dr. David Hahn: The success largely depends on their symptoms, the appearance, size and number of fibroids and the presence of other underlying conditions. Overall the success rate can be 85 to 95 percent.
    Dr. David Hahn

    Dr. David Hahn


    Dr. David Hahn is an Interventional Radiologist at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Assistant Professor of Radiology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine. A Chicago native, Dr. Hahn completed his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University and graduated Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine in 1996. He did a one-year surgical internship at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois and went on to complete his radiology residency at Indiana University Medical Center where he served as Chief Resident in Radiology. In 2001, he returned to Chicago for a one-year fellowship in Interventional Radiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and then went on to take a faculty position at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He joined Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in 2003 where he helped develop the uterine fibroid embolization program.

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