Prevalencia de malformaciones müllerianas en mujeres de 12 a 20 años pacientes del Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo desde mayo 2015 a abril 2020.

Abstract

Introduction: The presence of Müllerian malformations has a wide variety of repercussions on the quality of life of women, so establishing the prevalence of these conditions is a real challenge, these pathologies are considered as a group of gynecological alterations that compromise the correct morphological development of all genitourinary system, which today are the main causes of infertility problems. Objectives: To determine the prevalence, number of cases, identify the most frequent Müllerian malformation, describe the clinical characteristics present and establish whether there is an increase or decrease in epidemiological prevalence when compared with data provided by INEC. Methodology: Prospective longitudinal study. Results: Of the 40 patients with Müllerian malformation attended in the gynecology service of the Hospital de Especialidades Teodoro Maldonado Carbo, during the period of study established, 16 patients (40%) were diagnosed didelphys uterus, being the most frequent diagnosis. In 14 patients, the type of müllerian malformation was not specified (35%), 4 patients (10%) had uterine and cervical malformations, 3 patients (7.5%) had external genital malformations, 2 patients (5%) They presented bicorne uterus and one of the patients (2.5%) presented uterine involution. The clinical characteristics that were recorded were primary and secondary amenorrhea. Conclusions: The prevalence obtained in this study was 0.0017%, being this result, much lower compared to the data provided by INEC. We further conclude that this pathology is usually diagnosed by clinical findings during a gynecological review.