Interstitial (intramural) fibroid uterus - is the most common form of the disease, it is found in half of infected women. Symptoms of interstitial fibroids - these are classic symptoms of fibroids: uterine bleeding, pain, and iron deficiency anemia.
Interstitial fibroids - why it appears
Interstitial (intramural) fibroid uterus develops in the thickness of the muscular layer of the uterus. Often it does not go beyond this layer, but sometimes grows outside the uterus and compresses the surrounding tissue, in other cases the growth of fibroids is inside the uterus, and the uterus increases as the pregnancy.
The causes of interstitial fibroids are the same and all other fibroids fibroids. The main reason is the occurrence of large amounts of blood in the female sex hormones. Such hormonal changes can occur under the influence of a variety of reasons, but today the main reasons are abortion, infectious and inflammatory processes in the genital area, high nervous and mental load and stress in women.
Under the influence of all these reasons, the muscle cells of the uterus begin to divide, forming a knot. Fibroids can grow slowly, and very quickly why this happens is still not known exactly. On the condition fibroids affect nutritional status of women - the use of large amounts of fatty foods of animal origin - from her body gets cholesterol, which becomes material for the production of estrogen.
Symptoms
Interstitial uterine fibroids is most often seen in the form of the classic symptoms - uterine bleeding
Uterine bleeding outside of menstruation - a sign of a serious breach
, Pain, iron deficiency anemia and compression of surrounding tissue.
Uterine bleeding during uterine interstitial can be connected and linked to the menstrual cycle. In the first case they are called menorrhagia and are abundant prolonged (more than a week) menstruation. If there is uterine bleeding menstrual cycle, they are called metrorrhagia. Often menorrhagia
Menorrhagia (menorrhagia) - excessive blood loss
combined with metrorrhagia, and then the woman loses especially a lot of blood.
No less characteristic of pain, which can have both permanent and periodic. Constant aching pain in the abdomen
Abdominal pain: when to sound the alarm?
usually associated with impaired blood flow in the uterine wall - the tumor compresses the blood vessels, prevents nutritious food tissues of the uterus, resulting in its ischemia (hypoxia). Organism signals this pain.
Pain can wear and periodic cramping in nature - such pains often occur just before or during menstruation them. They are connected with the fact that large amounts of estrogen inhibits rejection uterine lining and she rejected portions, accompanied by severe pain, spastic nature and prolonged bleeding.
Complications
Regular blood loss (lost along with blood and iron, which is necessary for synthesis of hemoglobin), sooner or later lead to the development of iron deficiency. The main symptoms of iron deficiency anemia are pallor, lethargy, weakness, drowsiness, dizziness, frequent headaches. Sometimes on this background, there are frequent fainting - a sign that the brain lacks oxygen (hemoglobin delivers it, which in this case is in short supply).
With the growth of uterine fibroids out into the pelvic possible compression of vital organs - urinary tract and rectum, which is manifested in the form of urinary retention (this in turn can cause pyelonephritis, nephrolithiasis, decreased kidney function), constipation, Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids - a shameful disease
and so on.
Interstitial uterine fibroids and pregnancy
If interstitial unit compresses the fallopian tube, it becomes impossible to conceive, since the sperm can not get into the fallopian tube and fertilize the egg.
If pregnancy still occurs, then the growth of fibroids inside the uterine cavity, can be violated during pregnancy. In the early stages of pregnancy is a miscarriage, in the late - preterm delivery. If the placenta is attached directly above the uterine or adjacent to, the possibility of its premature rejection, accompanied by heavy bleeding.
Bleeding may occur during childbirth. The reason is not enough coherent uterine contractions (discoordination - for the same reason often develops uterine inertia), which leads to a long hiatus of the blood vessels (normally contract the muscles squeeze the blood vessels should be), and bleeding.
Interstitial uterine fibroids should be promptly identified and treated, and for that every woman at least twice a year should visit the gynecologist.
Galina Romanenko