Fibrous-fatty involution of the mammary glands can be considered by mammologists as a normal phenomenon, and a serious disease of the female body. Specifically, everything depends on the age of the woman, on her generative function. An important role is played by the patient’s diseases associated with the reproductive system. It is all of the above that the mammologist takes into account when deciding on the need and choice of treatment for fibro-fatty involution.
Involute changes in the mammary glands as usual occur in the postpartum period or in old age. In these cases, special medication is not required. But if such changes occurred in a nulliparous woman of childbearing age, she definitely needs to undergo an examination to exclude endocrine pathology. If a mammography examination confirms the diagnosis “Fibrous-fatty involution of the mammary glands”, the doctor will prescribe the appropriate treatment.
In its development, the mammary gland passes through three stages: up to forty-five years of age - childbearing, from forty-five to fifty-five - menopause and a third period - senile. By the mammary gland, as a rule, it is possible to determine the female age and the hormonal background corresponding to it. It is he who determines the level of development of glandular tissue. Of course, that does not exist between female age and the condition of the mammary glands of full compliance. If a woman has high hormonal activity, the mammary glands will be well developed. If the hormonal background begins to decline, respectively, the glandular tissue decreases and is replaced by fatty and connective tissue.
Sometimes there are young eighteen-nineteen-year-old women who have fibro-fatty involution of the mammary glands, as in older ladies. Doctors advise such patients to undergo examination by a gynecologist, who then, if necessary, will refer to an endocrinologist for research. It also happens that women over fifty come to see a mammologist, and they have mammary glands, like young ones (usually those who have never given birth).
The fibro-fatty involution of the mammary glands in the young female body is alarming to the mammologist. After all, such changes may indicate the beginning of serious problems with women's health. Therefore, experts so strongly recommend that women of childbearing age contact a antenatal clinic twice a year. This is done in order not to miss the onset of a serious disease, to prevent the development of female diseases.
The largest changes in the mammary glands occur in the childbearing period, which is quite lengthy in time. In women, at different stages of their life, glandular tissue undergoes changes. If at the beginning of the childbearing period it is pronounced and well developed, closer to fifty over the dense structures of the glandular tissue, fatty tissue begins to prevail. So with age, fatty involution of the mammary glands occurs. This is quite natural, because the physiological functions of the female body are dying out, the life cycle of the childbearing is ending.
Age-related restructuring of all systems begins. You should not be afraid of such a transformation in the body. Just breast tissue is gradually replaced by connective and adipose tissue. Of course, to the exclusion of various focal pathologies, a woman is simply obliged, for the sake of her health, starting from thirty-five years old, to regularly (once a year) perform mammograms of the mammary glands. When a woman has slightly exceeded fifty, in her mammary glands there are more fat cells than glandular cells, and therefore mammography can already be done once every one and a half to two years.