What is oblique septum of uterus?

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What is oblique septum of uterus? The oblique septum of uterus occurs between the two cervix, because its symptoms are similar to menstrual bleeding and dysmenorrhea, it is easy to be diagnosed as irregular menstruation. For the disease of oblique septum of uterus, many female patients will worry that it will affect their fertility, because the uterus is closely related to our fertility.

What is oblique septum of uterus?

Surgical treatment is the only effective method for this disease. Although abdominal hysterectomy can relieve symptoms, it has great trauma and sacrifice one side of the normal uterus. Transvaginal oblique septotomy and drainage is the most ideal surgical treatment. Surgery should be performed as soon as possible to relieve symptoms, prevent secondary pelvic endometriosis, pelvic infection, adhesion and other complications, and the most important thing is to preserve reproductive function.

During the embryonic period, Miller's tube, the predecessor of the female reproductive tract, is a bilateral symmetrical tube. Through a series of steps such as midline fusion and septal absorption, a single uterine body, cervix and vagina are formed on the midline, while the left and right fallopian tubes are still kept. This process starts from 5 weeks to 16 weeks. During this period, if affected by teratogenic factors, hinder the progress of the above process, can lead to varying degrees of double uterus, double cervix and vaginal malformations. Thus affecting fertility.

The specific steps of oblique septum surgery need to be decided by the doctor, and the situation of each patient's oblique septum is different, and the steps and details of the surgery will be different. In order to ensure the success rate of oblique septum surgery, we hope that patients can go to large public hospitals for treatment in the face of this disease.

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There are many reasons that affect fertility, uterine septum is one of the reasons, but the diagnosed patients should not just be frightened, now the development of medicine is very fast, there are many researches on the treatment of uterine oblique septum, as long as we actively face and cooperate with the doctor's treatment plan, we can control the disease well.