Medical Management of Endometriosis

An Update on Pathophysiology and Medical Management of Endometriosis

Endometriosis is an inflammatory oestrogen dependent disease defined by the presence of endometrial glands and stroma at extrauterine sites. The modern advance in treatment of endometriosis management is tackling the debilitating pain it causes, besides the infertility in patients desiring fertility in reproductive age group. This can be achieved by surgical or medical means, although in most c...

Medical treatment of endometriosis.

Endometriosis is a common, benign and chronic gynecological disorder. It is also an estrogen-dependent disorder that can result in substantial morbidity, including pelvic pain, pro gressive dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, infertility and repeat surgeries. Endometriosis is often treated surgically upon diag nosis but with a higher rate of recurrence, suggesting that a combination of surgical and medi...

I-37: Medical Treatment of Endometriosis inInfertility

There is still not enough evidence that endometriosis per se and infertility are causally related. While extensive pelvic adhesions or the loss of ovarian tissue clearly bears out the causative role of endometriosis this is more difficult in other patients. Several randomized controlled trials and observational studies have in fact reported almost uniform negative results: • spontaneous pregnan...

Medical Treatment in Endometriosis

It must to keep in mind that those common administrated drugs couldn’t help to restore the fertility potentials and in fact during their usage pregnancy cannot or should not be happened, regarding to inhibition of ovulation or teratogenic effects; of course by their administration with remission of disease (suppress the growth and activity of previous endometriotic implants) and reducing the ch...

surgical management of endometriosis