Clinical characteristics of women with endometrial hyperplasia on the background of thyroid dysfunction

Abstract

The objective: to define the specificities of clinical characteristics in women of reproductive age with endometrial hyperplasia associated with hypothyroidism.Materials and methods. There were 180 women with endometrial hyperplasia under our supervision. In 120 women, the pathology of endometrium was associated with newly diagnosed hypothyroidism. The patients with the thyroid dysfunctions were divided into the following groups: asymptomatic persons – 48 cases; symptomatic ones – 45 women; compensated patients with mild symptoms – 27 individuals. The control group consisted of 60 patients with endometrial hyperplasia without thyroid pathology.The data of the somatic and gynecological anamnesis, the concentration of sex hormones and thyroid hormones, the results of histological examination of the endometrium were analyzed in all the women.Results. The following data were found: the age of women with hyperprolactinemia without thyroid pathology is younger than the age of those with hyperprolactinemia and thyroid pathology; hypothyroidism in women with endometrial hyperplasia is contingent on frequently growing body weight, but not obesity; the most common concomitant pathology in women with endometrial hyperplasia and hypothyroidism was mastopathy which was diagnosed almost in every third patient. The frequency of such endocrine pathologies as polycystic ovary syndrome and hyperprolactinemia in women with endometrial hyperplasia has almost increased twice in the presence of hypothyrosis. In case of endometrial hyperplasia and hypothyrosis there was a significant decrease of estradiol concentration with a preserved level of gonadotropic hormones (luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone), and the lowest values were defined in women with symptomatic hypothyroidism. Chronic endometritis, the detection rate of which does not depend on thyroid dysfunction, was diagnosed in 61.5 % patients with endometrial hyperplasia.Conclusions. Thyroid dysfunction is involved in the mechanisms of development of hyperplastic processes of the endometrium, which is the basis for screening the functional state of the thyroid gland in women with endometrial pathology.