Morbidity associated with abdominal myomectomy.

Objective: To review the recent experience at Yale-New Haven Hospital with abdominal myomectomy and to assess morbidity associated with the procedure. Methods: The hospital records of 128 women who underwent abdominal myomectomies during a 39-month period were reviewed retrospectively. Particular attention was given to blood transfusion requirement and the febrile morbidity rate. Results: The average (±standard error of the mean) intraoperative estimated blood loss was 342±37 mL. Five cases (4%) had an estimated blood loss greater than 1000 mL. Intraoperative or postoperative transfusion occurred in 26 cases (20%); 70% of the transfused patients received autologous blood only