Fibroids are growths in a woman's uterus. It is usually a benign fibroid and does not cause serious harm. However, if left untreated for a long time, it is likely to lead to malignant changes. Therefore, we do not understand the dangers of uterine fibroids to our health.
What Are The Dangers Of Uterine Fibroids?
1. Long-term menorrhagia in patients with anemic uterine fibroids can easily lead to secondary anemia and even anemic heart disease. In severe cases, symptoms such as general fatigue, pallor, shortness of breath, and palpitations may occur.
2. The torsion of subserosal fibroids can occur at the pedicle, causing acute abdominal pain. If the patient with severe torsion of the tumor pedicle cannot be operated on immediately or cannot return on his own, free fibroids may form due to the torsion of the tumor pedicle. Torsion fibroids can also drive the entire uterus, causing axial twisting of the uterus.
3. Infertility leads to miscarriage and premature birth after pregnancy, as well as other complications during childbirth. Fibroids during pregnancy can cause stomach pain and uterine contractions, which need to be distinguished from premature labor.
4. Patients with uterine fibroids combined with gynecological inflammation will have symptoms of menstrual changes, such as increased menstrual flow and prolonged menstruation. Irregular bleeding can lead to the invasion of pathogenic bacteria, causing gynecological inflammation such as adnexitis and pelvic inflammatory disease.
5. Uterine fibroids combined with uterine body cancer accounted for 2%, much higher than uterine fibroids combined with cervical cancer. Therefore, menopausal patients with uterine fibroids should be alerted to the presence of endometrial cancer if they have persistent uterine bleeding.
What does the treatment of uterine fibroids depend on?
Treatment for fibroids depends on age, size, location, and rate of growth. This is individualized treatment and there is no uniform standard. Many people can choose expectant treatment, that is, do not take any measures, only observe the growth of fibroids through regular follow-up, without any treatment, which is called expectant treatment.
Expectant therapy is more suitable for perimenopausal women. That is, women will go to menopause soon, and the fibroids are small and asymptomatic. Generally, fibroids will not grow again, and may even shrink. We will choose to expect treatment for this part of the population. For women of childbearing age, expectant treatment is also an option if the leiomyoma is small and asymptomatic.
Drug treatment is relatively rare because few drugs are safe, effective, and have a low recurrence rate for the treatment of uterine fibroids.
Surgery is indicated in patients with symptoms of compression, anemia, large leiomyomas, and especially rapid growth of leiomyomas. In some, we remove the fibroids and keep the uterus. For these patients, the postoperative recurrence rate is about 20-30%.
How is the recurrence rate caused?
Some leiomyomas are very small, like seeds buried in the muscle of the uterus, which is difficult to find during surgery. After surgery, this very small leiomyoma gradually grew, which is a kind of. There is another one because, after myomectomy, the fibroids are also removed. After all, the factors that cause the tumor exist for a long time, and new fibroids appear after many years, which will lead to postoperative recurrence. Therefore, patients must pay close attention to their physical condition for a long time and conduct a regular review.
Uterine fibroids are not a serious disease in the eyes of many women, but in fact, we can see from the above that there are many hazards to women's health, especially the possibility of malignant transformation, so I hope today's article can Cause female friends to pay attention to uterine fibroids.