Fallopian tubes in women are a paired organ of tubular type, which is two channels of a filiform form, about 12 cm long. The diameter of the fallopian tube usually ranges from 2-4 mm. There are uterine tubes on both sides of the uterus, so that one of the sides of the tubes connects to the uterus, and the second - to the ovary.
Pipes provide connection of the uterine cavity with the abdominal cavity. Therefore, the female abdominal cavity is not sealed, and any infection that enters the uterine cavity causes inflammation of the female fallopian tubes themselves, as well as the damage to organs located in the cavity of the peritoneum.
Diseases of the fallopian tubes
Inflammation of the fallopian tubes was called salpingitis . There are two main ways of infection in the fallopian tubes:
- ascending - when the pathogen enters the genitals through the vagina, passes through the channel part of the cervix and penetrates into the fallopian tubes;
- descending - entry of the pathogen into the uterine tubes from the sigmoid colon.
One of the consequences of the inflammation of the fallopian tube can be the appearance of fluid inside the fallopian tube (hydrosalpinx). The main causes leading to the appearance of this complication can be: a woman's history of endometriosis, adhesions, inflammatory processes. Often the fluid appears as a result of recent surgical procedures.
Obstruction of fallopian tubes is one of the possible diseases affecting the fallopian tubes. It is characterized by the appearance of obstacles on the path of the ovum from the ovary to the uterine cavity. Many women who do not have the desire to give birth to children, by their own free will block the path of the egg to the uterus by surgical intervention. Such a medical operation was called a ligation or dissection of the fallopian tubes.
Possible complications
One of the possible complications that develop in diseases of the fallopian tubes, there may be a rupture of the fallopian tube. The cause of it is often abscesses tuboborovalnogo nature, as well as the emergence of tubal (ectopic) pregnancy .
Abscesses are a consequence of purulent processes in the tubes of the uterus, which, apart from herself, affect both the peritoneum of the small pelvis, and, in some cases, the ovary. In such a situation, the only possible way out is an operation to remove the fallopian tube.