Dr. Vance McCausland, MD

Expert Publications

• Partial rollerball endometrial ablation: a modification of total ablation to treat menorrhagia without causing complications from intrauterine adhesions.
• Intrauterine scarring as a result of total endometrial ablation could delay the diagnosis of endometrial cancer.
• Frequency of symptomatic cornual hematometra and postablation tubal sterilization syndrome after total rollerball endometrial ablation: a 10-year follow-up.
• Long-term complications of endometrial ablation: cause, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
• Hysterectomy compared with endometrial ablation for dysfunctional uterine bleeding: a randomized controlled trial.
• Probability of hysterectomy after endometrial ablation.
• Prediction of treatment outcomes after global endometrial ablation.
• Late-onset endometrial ablation failure--etiology, treatment, and prevention.
• Endometrial cancer after endometrial ablation vs medical management of abnormal uterine bleeding.
• Long-term Clinical Outcomes Following Resectoscopic Endometrial Ablation of Non-atypical Endometrial Hyperplasia in Women With Abnormal Uterine Bleeding.
• Hysteroscopic Endometrial Resection Versus Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy for Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: Long-Term Follow-Up of a Randomized Trial.
• Depth of endometrial penetration in adenomyosis helps determine outcome of rollerball ablation.

Media Releases

Get to know Obstetrician-Gynecologist Dr. Vance McCausland, who serves patients in California.

Dr. McCausland practices as an obstetrician-gynecologist in California. He specializes in women’s health, or gynecology & obstetrics.

With a broad educational background, he obtained his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 1997. He then went on to serve his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at LAC+USC Medical Center in 2001.

From September 2001 until March of 2007, Dr. McCausland served as an attending physician at Sutter Health, acting with full privileges as a board-certified attending obstetrician-gynecologist. He served as Department Vice Chair in 2006, and taught as clinical faculty for the Sutter Health Family Medicine Residency.

A Life Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, he is the recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award though the Sutter Health Family Medicine Residency (2005-2006) and the Frank Lynch Memorial Essay Award through the Pacific Coast Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (2001).

Obstetrics and Gynecology is the medical specialty that encompasses the two subspecialties. An obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, is a healthcare professional who specializes in female reproductive health.

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