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UTERINE BLEEDING [9 records]

Record 1 2025-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • The Genitals
CONT

Many women have variations in their menstrual cycle, such as changes in frequency, duration, or amount of flow, or spotting between their periods. This abnormal uterine bleeding(AUB) may have various causes, some of them benign.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Organes génitaux
CONT

Beaucoup de choses peuvent causer un saignement utérin anormal. La grossesse est une cause courante. Des polypes ou fibromes (petites ou grosses masses) dans l'utérus peuvent aussi causer des saignements. Rarement, un problème de thyroïde, une infection du col de l'utérus ou un cancer de l'utérus peut être la cause d'un saignement utérin anormal.

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • The Genitals
CONT

Many women have variations in their menstrual cycle, such as changes in frequency, duration, or amount of flow, or spotting between their periods. This abnormal uterine bleeding(AUB) may have various causes, some of them benign. But when AUB is related to changes in hormones that directly affect the menstruation cycle, the condition is called dysfunctional uterine bleeding(DUB).... Dysfunctional uterine bleeding occurs when the normal cycle of menstruation is disrupted, usually due to anovulation(failure to ovulate) that's unrelated to another illness. Ovulation failure is the most common type of DUB in adolescents and in women who are reaching perimenopause.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Organes génitaux
CONT

Beaucoup de choses peuvent causer un saignement utérin anormal. La grossesse est une cause courante. Des polypes ou fibromes (petites ou grosses masses) dans l'utérus peuvent aussi causer des saignements. Rarement, un problème de thyroïde, une infection du col de l'utérus ou un cancer de l'utérus peut être la cause d'un saignement utérin anormal. Chez la plupart des femmes, le saignement utérin anormal est causé par un déséquilibre hormonal. Lorsque les hormones sont la source du problème, les professionnels de la santé parlent de saignement utérin dysfonctionnel (SUD).

Spanish

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Record 3 2025-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Genitourinary Surgery
  • The Genitals
DEF

A surgical procedure in which heat energy, in the form of lasers or electrical currents, is used to remove or thin down the endometrium(the lining of the uterus) for the treatment of abnormally heavy uterine bleeding.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie génito-urinaire
  • Organes génitaux
CONT

L'ablation de l'endomètre est une intervention chirurgicale à effraction minimale sûre et efficace qui en est venue à constituer, dans certains cas, une solution de rechange bien établie au traitement médical ou à l'hystérectomie pour la prise en charge des saignements utérins anormaux.

Spanish

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Record 4 2025-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • The Genitals
DEF

Any bleeding that originates in the uterus, including a menstrual period, but typically used to describe abnormal uterine bleeding.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Organes génitaux
CONT

En présence de saignements utérins inexpliqués, la [docteure] va procéder à une investigation pour vérifier s'il y a une pathologie utérine sous-jacente (hyperplasie de l'endomètre, fibromes, polypes, cancer ...).

Spanish

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Record 5 2025-09-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Reproduction (Medicine)
  • The Genitals
CONT

Menometrorrhagia, defined as excessive and prolonged uterine bleeding occurring at irregular and/or frequent intervals, occurs in up to 24% of women aged 40-50 years. There are a wide range of causes of menometrorrhagia, although histological differences in endometrium between women aged <45 years compared with those aged 48-50 years indicate a much higher prevalence of myomas, adenomyosis, and dysfunctional endometrium(dysfunctional uterine bleeding, hyperplasia, neoplasia) around the time of the premenopause, emphasizing the importance of accurate diagnosis and appropriate management in women of this age group.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Reproduction (Médecine)
  • Organes génitaux
CONT

Les ménométrorragies sont des motifs de consultation fréquents. Après exclusion des grossesses, leurs principales causes sont les causes utérines (polype, myome, adénomyose, cancer) et annexielles (kyste de l'ovaire ou cancer) bénignes ou malignes, les coagulopathies (maladie de Willebrand …), les hémorragies fonctionnelles.

Spanish

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Record 6 2014-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pregnancy
DEF

A pregnancy in which implantation of the blastocyst and subsequent development occur outside the uterine cavity.

CONT

The causes of abnormal uterine bleeding in the reproductive years include complications from the use of oral contraceptive preparations; complications of pregnancy(especially threatened, incomplete, or missed abortion and ectopic pregnancy).

Key term(s)
  • extra-uterine pregnancy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grossesse
DEF

Développement de l'œuf fécondé en dehors de la cavité utérine.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Embarazo
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Record 7 2011-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Genitals
  • Blood
DEF

Excessive uterine bleeding occurring at regular intervals, the period of flow being of usual duration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organes génitaux
  • Sang
DEF

Excès de l'écoulement menstruel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Órganos genitales
  • Sangre
DEF

Ciclo menstrual con duración regular y hemorragia excesiva.

CONT

[...] cuanto más próximo esté el tumor a la cavidad endometrial más frecuentes e intensas serán las alteraciones menstruales. Estas podrán manifestarse como hipermenorrea (aumento de la cantidad de sangre menstrual) o menorragia (aumento de la duración del sangrado menstrual). A veces aparece metrorragia (pérdidas continuas sin conservación del ciclo).

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Record 8 2004-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cancers and Oncology
  • The Genitals
DEF

A benign tumor of the uterine muscle tissue which appears mostly after the age of 35; the presenting symptoms are irregular bleeding between menses, vaginal discharge and/or frequency of urination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cancers et oncologie
  • Organes génitaux
DEF

Tumeur bénigne du tissu musculaire de l'utérus apparaissant le plus souvent à partir de 35 ans et se manifestant par des saignements irréguliers en dehors des règles, des pertes vaginales et/ou des mictions fréquentes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de cáncer y oncología
  • Órganos genitales
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Record 9 2003-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Genitourinary Tract
CONT

Special clinics are dedicated to deal with abnormal uterine bleeding, where diagnostic hysteroscopy and endometrial biopsies are performed as well as treatment and follow-up of premalignant endometrial lesions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Appareil génito-urinaire
DEF

Technique d'exploration et de soin du col de l'utérus au moyen d'un fibroscope spécial (hystéroscope) introduit par le vagin.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumental médico
  • Procedimientos diagnósticos (Medicina)
  • Aparato genitourinario
DEF

Endoscopia del interior del útero y las trompas de falopio por medio de un instrumento análogo al cistoscopio, el histeroscopio, que se introduce en el útero pasando por la vagina y el cuello del útero.

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