Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding Flashcards
Normal uterine bleeding
- cycle is 21-35 days, average is 28 days
- bleeding lasts 2-7 days
- 40 mL blood loss
Menorrhagia
-HEAVY bleeding
> 7 days
> 80 mL blood loss (double normal)
Metorrhagia
- ABNORMAL bleeding
- Polymenorrhea: 35 days
Menometorrhagia
Both heavy and abnormal bleeding
PALM-COEIN reasons for premenopausal uterine bleeding
PALM: Structural P: poly A: adenomyosis L: leiomyoma M: malignancy
COEIN: non-structural C: coagulopathy O: ovulatory dysfunction E: endometrial I: iatrogenic N: not yet classified
Polyp
Can cause very heavy bleeding (menorrhagia) or intramenstrual bleeding (bleeding between cycles)
- Localized hyperplastic overgrowths of endometrial glands and stroma around a vascular core
- Looks like a finger-like projection into uterus
Risk Factors to getting a uterine polyp
- tamoxifen (breast cancer)
- obesity (have extra estrogen)
- postmenopausal hormones
To better view a polyp can use
Saline infused sonohistogram (used to
expand uterus to see structures you wont see
when uterus is collapsed)
Adeonmyosis
- *Heavy menstrual bleeding and pelvic pain
- *Trying to bleed but trapped in muscular tissue (painful)
- Endometrial glands and stroma within uterine musculature= hypertrophy and hyperplasia= globular uterus
- can be diffuse or nodular
-WIKI: presence of ectopic glandular tissue found in muscle
Best imaging for uterus (especially to see adenomyosis)
Transvaginal ultrasound
Treatment for Adenomyosis
medical/surgical
-may need hysterectomy
Leiomyoma
- AKA: fibroids
- Benign monoclonal tumors arising from smooth muscle of myometrium
- Heavy menstrual bleeding plus pressure symptoms
- 2-3x great risk in african americans
Types of Leiomyomas
- Submucosal fibroid (causes most bleeding, most associated with infertility and miscarriages)
- Intramural fibroid
- Subserosal fibroid
- Pedunculated fibroid
Leiomyoma vs Polyp
- Fibroids are more solid and harder to remove
- Polyps are softer and easier to remove because they are endometrial glands
- These two are easily confused
- Can use use saline infused sonohistogram to see both (submucosal fibroid only)
Treatment for Leiomyoma
- medical:
1. OCPs
2. Progestins (IUD or Depo- stops ovulation, no growth of endometrium, may decrease bleeding)
3. Luprolide (LOTS of people use this- shuts off all estrogen that you’re secreting, can maybe even shrink the fibroid)- 6 months max, puts you in false menopausal state- causes bone loss, NOT reversible (osteoporosis/osteopenia) - Once in menopause, no estrogen, fibroids may even shrink
-Surgery: removal
Malignancy
Cervical vs uterine (both present with vaginal bleeding)
Uterine- Hyperplasia vs adenocarcinoma vs sarcoma
Cervical cancer, you can see _________
squamous cell carcinoma
Endometrial hyperplasia
Proliferation of endometrial glands of irregular size and shape
-Hyperplasia is BIG risk factor for endometrial cancer
Simple without atypia, % of people with endometrial hyperplasia that have it
1% (penny)
Complex without atypia, % of people with endometrial hyperplasia that have it
3% (nickel)
Simple with atypia, % of people with endometrial hyperplasia that have it
8% (dime)
Complex with atypia, % of people with endometrial hyperplasia that have it
*29% (quarter)
Risk factors for endometrial hyperplasia
unopposed estrogen!, increasing age, unopposed E2 therapy, tamoxifen, early menarche, late menopause, nulliparity, PCOS, obesity, diabetes, E2 tumor, lynch syndrome, cowden syndrome, family history
Endometrial carcinoma,
Type I
- endometrioid histology, grade 1,2**
- good prognosis, usually can find this early and low grade (pt comes in when they are bleeding- know this is abnormal)