What are the symptoms of uterine atrophy?

Women have menstruation every month. Under normal circumstances, menstruation is a normal physiological reaction caused by regular changes in the endometrium. Therefore, we must take good care of the uterus in our daily life. When the uterus suffers from some diseases, it will have a certain impact on women's physical health. Uterine atrophy is a relatively common disease. After suffering from this disease, we must go to the hospital for treatment.

What are the symptoms of uterine atrophy?

1. Abnormal menstruation:

Patients with congenital absence of uterus or primordial uterus have no menstruation. Patients with immature uterus may have no menstruation, or may have symptoms such as oligomenorrhea, delayed menstruation, dysmenorrhea, and irregular menstruation; patients with double uterus or bicornuate uterus often have excessive menstrual flow and prolonged menstrual duration.

2. Infertility

Uterine hypoplasia, such as absence of uterus, primordial uterus, and infantile uterus, is often one of the main causes of infertility.

(III) Pathological pregnancy:

An abnormally developed uterus often causes miscarriage, premature birth or abnormal fetal position after pregnancy. Spontaneous uterine rupture may occur during pregnancy. If the fallopian tube of the rudimentary uterine horn is unobstructed, the fertilized egg can implant in the rudimentary horn of the uterus. However, due to the poor development of the uterine muscle layer, it often ruptures during pregnancy, and the symptoms are the same as those of ectopic pregnancy.

4. Pathology during and after delivery:

A malformed uterus often coexists with myometrial dysplasia. During delivery, abnormal labor force and difficulty in cervical dilation may lead to difficult labor or even uterine rupture. Vaginal delivery may result in retained placenta, postpartum hemorrhage, or postpartum infection. After a patient with double uterus becomes pregnant, the pregnant uterus grows and develops, and if the non-pregnant uterus is located in the rectouterine fossa, it may cause obstructive dystocia during delivery. Patients with double uterus, bicornuate uterus or septate uterus may experience bleeding after delivery due to the discharge of decidua from the non-pregnant side of the uterine cavity.

Causes of uterine atrophy

The causes of atrophy can be divided into two categories: physiological atrophy and pathological atrophy.

The former is the degeneration of certain organs and tissues at a certain stage of body development. Such as the thymus in adolescence; the gonads, breasts, and uterus after menopause; and the atrophy of various organs in the elderly. The latter is atrophy that occurs under pathological conditions. For example, systemic atrophy is often caused by long-term malnutrition, wasting diseases (such as malignant tumors) and long-term starvation.

Local atrophy is common in brain and kidney atrophy caused by local ischemia (such as atherosclerosis); local compressive atrophy caused by long-term pressure (such as hydronephrosis compressing the renal parenchyma, causing it to atrophy and become thinner); disuse atrophy caused by long-term inactivity of limb organs (such as: when a fractured limb is fixed with plaster, the muscles and bones atrophy due to long-term inactivity); target organ atrophy caused by endocrine dysfunction (such as atrophy of the thyroid, adrenal glands, gonads and other organs caused by hypopituitarism in Simon's disease).