What are the causes of uterine fibroids? What will happen if uterine fibroids are not treated for a long time?

Uterine fibroids are a common gynecological disease in women, which is very harmful to the female body. Therefore, in order to prevent uterine fibroids, female friends should understand the causes of uterine fibroids in advance. This article summarizes the main causes of uterine fibroids through the introduction of experts.

Uterine fibroids are a serious symptom of uterine diseases and can affect women's conception, so women should take active measures to prevent them. Generally, uterine fibroids do not cause pain symptoms. About 40% of patients with uterine fibroids experience abdominal pain, 25% experience back pain, and 45% experience dysmenorrhea. Some patients may also experience a feeling of heaviness in the lower abdomen or back pain, but the degree of pain is usually not very serious. Pain symptoms are mostly caused by pathological changes in the fibroids themselves or combined with other pelvic diseases.

Uterine fibroids are formed by the proliferation of uterine smooth muscle tissue, with a small amount of fibrous connective tissue in between. They are more common in women aged 30-50, most common in women aged 40-50, and rare in women under 20. Common symptoms include uterine bleeding, pain, abdominal mass, compression symptoms of adjacent organs, increased leucorrhea, anemia, and heart dysfunction.

The main reasons are as follows:

1. Oppression

Uterine fibroids can compress pelvic blood vessels, causing congestion or nerves, leading to pain. Large subserosal fibroids growing into the broad ligament can not only compress nerves and blood vessels, causing pain, but can also compress the ureter, causing hydroureter or hydronephrosis, leading to low back pain.

2. Transformation

Red degeneration of uterine fibroids is more common during pregnancy, manifesting as acute abdominal pain in the lower abdomen, accompanied by vomiting, fever and local tenderness of the tumor.

3. Twist

Torsion of the pedicle of subserosal uterine fibroids or giant subserosal uterine fibroids in the fundus of the uterus can cause uterine torsion in some cases and can cause acute abdominal pain.

4. Submucosal uterine fibroids

Submucosal fibroids can also cause abdominal pain when they are discharged from the uterine cavity to the outside, but in general the discharge process is slow and gradual, and the cervix is ​​soft. The fibroids stimulate uterine contractions, causing paroxysmal lower abdominal discomfort, which rarely causes acute lower abdominal pain. When submucosal fibroids are infected and necrotic, followed by acute pelvic inflammatory disease, they can cause acute lower abdominal pain, but this is rare.

5. Infection

Necrotic infection of uterine fibroids causes pelvic inflammatory disease, adhesion and traction.

If uterine fibroids are not treated for a long time, they will cause many diseases. I hope female friends can pay attention to this.

These are the five causes of uterine fibroids. Female friends should be wary of the occurrence of these problems and avoid uterine fibroids from the root.