Many women have fibroids without knowing it

Uterine fibroids are a type of smooth muscle tumor that occurs in the uterus, most commonly between the ages of 30 and 45. About 20 to 40% of women over the age of 35 have this but do not know because the disease has no symptoms early.

According to the master, Dr. Nguyen Minh Duc, Phuc An Khang International General Hospital, uterine fibroids may appear in many different positions in the uterus . U under the mucosa often causes symptoms of menorrhagia and haemorrhage. U in the muscle layer usually develops rapidly, enlarges and distorts the uterus. U in the uterus of the uterus is easy to cause complications of insertion of the ureter, kidney stasis. Tumors under the serosa may have stalks that are more susceptible to self-twisting, causing abdominal pain.

Causes of uterine fibroids are being studied by scientists. Basically some factors can be the cause of disease including genetics, environment, food, endocrine disorders, obesity .

Uterine tumors often develop during the reproductive period of women (30 to 50 years). U may have one or more accounts for the entire uterus even the abdomen. After menopause, fibroids are usually small but not completely lost. Often in older women, tumors can progress to degenerate such as degeneration of the glass (the core of the tumor turns into a brown fluid), cystic degeneration (cores become a milky fluid), advancing development of lime degeneration (usually calcification occurs from the tumor shell progressing to the core).

Uterine sites often appear.(Photo: sanphukhoa).

In some special cases, uterine fibroids can become infected and necrotic after miscarriage, abortion or postpartum abortion. During pregnancy, blood vessels grow in time compared to the rapid increase in tumor size, causing the tumor to be anemic and necrotic. U in this condition is characterized by aseptic necrosis. Uterine fibroids may also develop degenerative or cancerous cancer, accounting for 2 / 1,000 in all types of fibroids. Other documents show that the number of malignant tumors may be higher than 1/493 of all fibroids.

The symptoms of uterine fibroids in non-pregnant women are common:

1. Lower abdominal pain, especially in the uterine area during menstruation.
2. Pain persists during sexual intercourse.
3. Vaginal bleeding such as menorrhagia (prolonged menstrual period), haemorrhage (hemorrhage during the cycle but outside the menstrual period), menstrual episodes (heavy menstruation).
4. With a large tumor that can be touched, touching will feel painful.
5. Always feeling peeing because u pressed into the bladder.When the tumor is too big, pressing into the ureter will cause water stasis, even kidney failure without treatment.In case the tumor is pressed to the rectum, the patient is at risk of hemorrhoids and constipation.
6. Difficulty conceiving and long having children.

Symptoms of uterine fibroids during pregnancy are:

1. Miscarriage.
2. Abnormal pregnancies make it difficult to give birth to the vagina, increasing the risk of caesarean section.
3. Pregnancy slows growth, even malnutrition.
4. It is easy to cause haemorrhage due to a enlarged part of fibroids slowing the contraction of the uterus after birth.