Role of macrophages in the immunopathogenesis of adenomyosis

a prospective study has been conducted on 35 women. There were 20 (57.1 %) who had adenomyosis of I degree. The control group consisted of 15 (34.3 %) gynecologically healthy women. The patients underwent general clinical, instrumental (ultrasound, hysteroscopy) examinations. Fragments of the uterine wall obtained by hysterorectoscopy were used for morphological study. The method of immunohistochemical determination of CD68+ and CD163+ macrophages was used to analyze the characteristics of phenotypic equivalents of M1 and M2 macrophages in uterine tissue samples.

The increase in the number of macrophages in the myometrium of patients with adenomyosis revealed in this study, which is found in large numbers in the areas of infiltration of the stroma of myometrial cells in close association with the perivascular region, can be regarded as the basis of the mechanism for the formation of endometrioid heterotopia. Furthermore, distortion of the CD68/CD163 ratio of macrophages is characterized by proinflammatory shift.

The study's main result is an increase in the quantitative indicators of CD68+ macrophages associated with adenomyosis, which indicates an immunopathological process in adenomyosis. Downloads

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