The Clinical Relevance of Disturbances of Uterine Vascular Growth, Remodeling, and Repair

Martha Hickey, Ian S. Fraser
In: Vascular Morphogenesis in the Female Reproductive System · 2001 · pp. 223–244 · doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0213-4_12 · W1629103966
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Endometrial blood vessels cyclically grow, remodel, and repair, with disruptions causing controlled menstruation, all regulated by complex cellular and molecular processes that can be disturbed.

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Endometrial blood vessels are unique in the manner in which they undergo monthly cycles of dramatic growth, disruption, remodeling, and repair, rivaled only by the remarkable vascular growth and regression occurring during formation and subsequent demise of the ovarian corpus luteum. In the normal menstrual cycle the regular endometrial vascular and tissue disruption and remodeling is associated with frank bleeding known as menstruation. The volume and duration of this bleeding is generally very precisely controlled by a number of fail-safe mechanisms. The overall cyclical changes occurring in endometrium are regulated by a complex sequence of interacting cellular and molecular processes. Any of these processes may be disturbed under certain circumstances.

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