Endometriosis Research Paper

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Endometriosis Endometriosis, visualize something like fungus growing inside the body at a rapid rate. This disease can affect women of all ages, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The disease can disrupt the lives of women and young girls abruptly. Extreme pain is the first symptom, which often times leads to misdiagnoses, and from there leads to various treatments for a disease that has no cure. Endometriosis is a gynecological disease that affects many women worldwide. Essentially endometriosis is when tissue that lines the uterus gets outside of the uterus and causes extreme pain because it has begun to grow outside of the uterus. But with this disease the displaced endometrial tissue continues to grow as it normally would – it thickens, …show more content…

These reasons are, retrograde menstruation which is when the menstrual blood that contains endometrial cells flows back into the fallopian tubes and the pelvic cavity instead of out of the body. A second reason could be the embryonic cell growth within the abdominal and pelvic cavities. When one or more cells of the abdominal lining turn into endometrial tissue, endometriosis can develop. Surgical scar implantation is a third cause of endometriosis. After a surgery, such as a hysterectomy or C-section, endometrial cells may attach to a surgical incision. A final cause would be an immune system disorder in which the body is unable to recognize and destroy endometrial tissue that's growing outside the uterus (mayo clinic). Knowing these things doctors have a better idea of what could be going on with this disease. But along with the causes comes the symptoms. With endometriosis the symptoms are not as visible as they are with the common cold or the flu. They are all internal for the most part. Some of the symptoms are excruciating cramps, long periods, nausea or vomiting, pain during sexual activity, infertility, bowel and urinary disorders, and heavy menstrual cycles (endofound). If a young girl or a women had these symptoms they would most likely be affected by them the most during the reproductive years, which would be ~12-60 years

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