Alicante Researchers discover a new pathology associated with dysfunction of the uterus

ALICANTE, 2 ( EUROPA PRESS)

Researchers of the University Miguel Hernández ( UMH) of Elche (Alicante) and the University Hospital of Sant Joan d ' Alacant have discovered a new pathology related to dysfunctions in the womb, and that would affect young women, as has been reported in a statement the Ministry of health Monday.

doctors who have described the pathology have pointed out that it is a dysfunction of the development of the womb or matrix that takes place during the embryonic period.

“It is a type of congenital anomaly known so far different and difficult to detect if not thinking, that is women with a uterus with a normal functioning unless these masses,”, said the Professor of obstetrics and Gynaecology of the UMH and Chief of service at the Hospital de Sant JoanPeter Acién.

Young women experience symptoms from the first menstruation, pain or dysmenorrhea during all days of bleeding and progressively, to the point of repeatedly go to different emergency services, where given painkillers, have detailed sources of the Conselleria

With the above treatment, the young “improve, but this is repeated in the next cycle, even taking the contraceptiva pill,” added Acién, who has emphasised “the difficulties of diagnosis have had these patients prior to the discovery”.

The work, carried out jointly by the area of obstetrics and Gynecology of the UMH and the service of gynaecology and obstetrics of the University Hospital Sant Joan d ' Alacant, “is a pioneer worldwide in the discovery of a new disease of the uterus, causing severe dysmenorrhea of pelvic pain recurring in young women”, explained the aforementioned sources.

The team that has achieved these results has been called the anomaly as ' cumulative ', acronym in English of ' mass Uterinas Accesorias Cavitadas ' (Accessory and Cavitated Uterine Masses).

“In the recognition of Gynecologic, doctors usually detect a rather small fibroid and which do not usually relate to the pain.” “However, such myoma can be confused with an endometrioma, also known as chocolate cyst”, said Acién.

Unlike the fibroids – solid and painless – and tumours of endometriomata – which settle in the ovary, this newfound nodule or mass cavitada produces pain, sits in the womb affects young people and tends to be unique, according to the findings of such work.

The aforementioned nodule presents measures two to four centimeters and is always located in the uterine muscle, under the inclusion of the round ligaments – exercising the function of the uterus forward subject-.

Similarly, Acién and his collaborators have insisted that should be ruled out, firstly, any other type of uterine malformation, then consider whether this disease.

“Must alert all gynecologists about this anomaly, to have into account.” “The knowledge of its existence and data to suspect her, has made that more cases which previously were adequately undiagnosed or treated are, and has made us think that, possibly, it is not a condition so rare as we thought at first”, has clarified the Professor of the UMH.

Thus discovery “is to offer these young people a quick solution to your problem, which passes necessarily by surgery,”, he continued.

Surgery and removal

Raised for this uterine dysfunction treatment is surgical and consists of the removal of that mass or nodule accessory unless it affects the rest of the female genital tract – uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries-, with the aim of preserving your reproductive future.

“the improvement of these girls is immediate, disappearing those so intense and annoying symptoms who have during the menstruation and who have repeatedly led them to emergency, and that, in some cases, been reached to hysterectomy – removal of uterus-, by insistence and request of the woman”, emphasised Acién.

The team of specialists of the UMH and the Hospital de Sant Joan, led by Professor Acién has published this discovery in the field of reproductive medicine journals, ' Obstetrics and Gynecology ' and ' Human Reproduction '.

Four cases in 2011

During the past 2011, the Gynecologists of the Hospital de Sant Joan have diagnosed and dealt with four new cases of this pathology. Thus, a total of 33 cases collected in world literature, eight have been seized in this Alicante Centre.