What is fibroid degeneration?

Fibroid or uterine leiomyoma is a type of non -lawyer growth that normally develops inside the womb or uterus. Fibroid degeneration takes place when fibroid increases for several years and its blood supply is no longer sufficient to support the center of the tumor. Inside fibroids there are degeneration, which includes cellular death, and calcium, where calcium is stored in tissue fibroids, can be observed at ultrasound scanning. The fibroid degeneration process can sometimes cause pain in the pelvic area. Fortunately, most fibroids do not cause any symptoms and treatment is required only in a fifth of all cases. Fibroids usually grow inside the uterus wall, with a minority developing on the outside of the uterus or growing in space inside. There may be one or many fibroids, and sizes can range from too small to a diameter of up to a few inches (centimeters).

usually is likely to degenerate fibroiIt is important in larger tumors, and although fibroids normally increase the size slowly, their development can be affected by hormone levels. Estrogen stimulates the growth and lack of estrogen, for example after menopause, causes fibroids to shrink. When fibroid suddenly grows too large and its blood supply is overtaken, the resulting degeneration of fibroids can cause relatively serious pain located in a particular area of ​​the pelvis. Pain can be solved without anything other than painkillers, usually in less than a month. Sometimes fibroid degeneration is more gradual, in which case the pain is milder, but lasts longer.

Fibroid treatment varies depending on symptoms, size and position of any growth and whether a woman hope for children in the future. Where there is a large fibroid undergoing degeneration and causes permanent pain, it may be a treatment of hysterectomy that fully removes the tumor. Sometimes a procedure called fibroids can be used where any fibroids are cut, but the uterus is stored or mayto be performed endometrial resection in which the lining of the womb is removed together with the fibroid. Methods that save the uterus have the disadvantage that fibroids can be repeated.

Some methods used to reduce fibroids mimic the natural process of fibroid degeneration either by targeting blood supply to tumors or by direct destruction of central cells. One treatment involves injection of small plastic beads into the arteries that lead to fibroids, which effectively blocks blood supply. In another technique, laser or ultrasonic energy is focused on cells in the center of the fibroid, causing them to die.