Fibroids or uterine fibroids are benign tumors. They consist of the elements of connective and muscular tissue. The disease occurs in 15-17% of women over 30 years. There uterine fibroids, usually at puberty. This reduces the reproductive function of the body.
The symptoms of uterine fibroids depend on where and where the tumor grows. Thus, tumors which grow toward the abdominal cavity and small sizes. Often they do not affect the menstrual function and do not cause any disturbances. It happens so that the significant value of fibroids symptoms are absent, and sometimes they appear quite early. Remember that every girl and woman, has her uterine or not, you should know the basic manifestations of the disease.
Symptoms of fibroids (fibroids):
- Uterine bleeding between menstrual periods;
- Too heavy and prolonged menstruation, against which may develop anemia (as a result of stretching and increasing the uterus);
- Pain (may be associated with menstruation, and can exist independently of it and be permanent), localized in the lower abdomen and lower back;
- Infertility and frequent miscarriages;
- Frequent urination or constipation (signs of compression of neighboring organs).
Uterine fibroids grow very slowly. The rapid increase in tumors can sometimes be a sign of malignant disease - sarcoma. Therefore, when the first symptoms refer to a gynecologist to rule out cancer and prescribe adequate treatment.
In the treatment of fibroids is to provide two approaches: reducing the size of the tumor nodules and further prevention; removal of fibroids in different ways. What are the treatments for uterine fibroids exist today?
Anti-hormonal therapy. Uterine fibroids stop growing or even decreasing in size during menopause. Therefore, to treat it uses special drugs that make the body an artificial menopause. He appealed. Create it for a period of three to six months. There is another option antihormonal treatment. It consists in the appointment of a drug that suppresses progesterone.
The high-frequency focused ultrasound (FUS ablation). Here, under the control of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to target the ultrasound unit. In the center of the nodule tissue are heated to very high temperatures, and some of them die.
Uterine artery embolization. The meaning of this method is selective blockage of the arteries that supply blood to the fibroids.
Conservative myomectomy. The operation, which is aimed at the removal of fibroids with preservation of the body. In most cases, it is shown to those women who are planning a pregnancy, and the presence of potentially interfering nodes nurturing. There are three types of operations:
- Laparotomy (abdominal, all performed the surgeon's hands);
- Laparoscopic (endoscopic, occurs under the control of the camera, which is injected into the abdominal cavity; executed instruments);
- Gisterorezoktoskopicheskaya (removal of submucosal tumors growing in the uterus).
Hysterectomy (removal of the uterus). This is the most common method of treatment in Russia. But it should be used only as a last resort, when the body of the uterus is actually a one myoma node.