{"paper_id":"1363c5f3-7c2b-4577-9f60-87bd005a3448","body_text":"Highlights\nThe combination of laparoscopic surgery and drug therapy was also associated with higher postoperative pregnancy rate.\nLaparoscopic surgery combined with drugs treatment performed better than laparoscopic surgery alone for endometriosis.\nLaparoscopic surgery combined with drug therapy for endometriosis can effectively improve postoperative infertility and recurrence rate.\nAbstract\nObjective\nTo systematically investigate the clinical efficacy and prognosis of laparoscopic surgery combined with drug therapy for endometriosis.\nMethods\nClinical randomized controlled trials regarding laparoscopic surgery combined with drug therapy for endometriosis and published between 2010 and 2022 were retrieved from PubMed, Web of Science and Embase, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Wanfang databases. Meta-analysis and sensitivity tests were performed using the Stata16.0 software.\nResults\nA total of 1332 articles were retrieved. Of them, 11 studies were included for final analysis, comprising of 521 cases in the treatment group (laparoscopic surgery combined with drug therapy) and 530 cases in the control group (laparoscopic surgery alone). Meta-analysis results showed that compared with the control group, the combined treatment had higher treatment effective rate [OR = 4.542, 95% CI (3.062, 6.736), P < 0.001], pregnancy rate [OR = 3.341, 95% CI (2.336, 4.780), P < 0.001], and lower incidence of adverse reactions [OR = 0.348, 95% CI (0.208, 0.583), P < 0.001] and recurrence rate [OR = 0.187, 95% CI (0.106, 0.328), P < 0.001]. In addition, after treatment, estradiol [SMD = −3.417, 95% CI (−4.631, −2.203), P < 0.001] and follicle-stimulating hormone [SMD = −1.976, 95% CI (−3.202, −0.751), P = 0.002] in the treatment group were significantly lower than the control group.\nConclusion\nCompared with laparoscopic surgery alone, laparoscopic surgery combined with drug therapy demonstrated better clinical efficacy and improved postoperative infertility and recurrence rate for treating endometriosis.\nAccess this article\nThe computer you are using is not registered by an institution with a subscription to this article. Please choose one of the options below.","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}