Arnaud Fauconnier

PURPOSE: To develop a questionnaire based on patients' verbal descriptors, to measure the painful symptoms of endometriosis. METHODS: We performed a two-round modified DELPHI procedure mixing endometriosis patients and physicians to select…

PURPOSE: The Endometriosis Health Profile 5 (EHP-5) is a short version of an endometriosis-specific quality of life questionnaire. The objective of the study was to assess the psychometric validity of its French version. METHODS: A total o…

BACKGROUND: Genital infection with Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection, especially among young women. Mostly asymptomatic, it can lead, if untreated, to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), t…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate fertility outcomes after laparoscopic partial bladder resection in women with bladder endometriosis and to review the literature. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study conducted at two tertiary referral centres -Tenon …

STUDY QUESTION: Which of the Endometriosis Health Profile-5 (EHP-5) and the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) is the most efficient to assess quality of life in women suffering from endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: Although EHP-5 and EQ-5D instruments had …

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INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Patients with deep infiltrating pelvic endometriosis (DIE) often describe having lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Bladder pain syndrome in women is also often associated with endometriosis. In this study, we…

Background: Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is commonly encountered in ă clinical practice. Objectives: To provide up-to-date guidelines on ă management of PID. Search strategy: An initial search of the Cochrane ă database, PubMed, and Em…

BACKGROUND: Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is commonly encountered in clinical practice. OBJECTIVES: To provide up-to-date guidelines on management of PID. SEARCH STRATEGY: An initial search of the Cochrane database, PubMed, and Embase…

Pelvic endometriosis is suspected by clinical examination but only confirmed by histology. Before surgery, transvaginal ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging are useful for lesions mapping. Uterosacral ligaments are affected in 69%…

Some authors think that transvaginal ultrasonography (TVUS) should be the first-line imaging examination for diagnosing deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) and rectal involvement. However, studies on diagnostic accuracy are few and provid…

STUDY QUESTION: How do fully-comprehensive patient-centred descriptions of the symptoms of endometriosis compare with the physicians' description of the symptoms? SUMMARY ANSWER: The description of the painful symptoms due to endometriosis…

The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) of patients with deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) using EuroQOL (EQ-5D) and its correlation with symptoms and locations of endometriotic lesions. One hundred and fif…

The antibiotic treatment is indispensable for the treatment of the tubo-ovarian abscesses (TOA). It has to have a wide spectre and would be secondarily adapted in case of a sexually transmitted infection. The surgery remains indicated in fi…

Uterine leiomyomas are common tumors in women, and most of their complications are well known. Rupture of a uterine leiomyoma is an unusual source of severe hemoperitoneum. The cause seems to be spontaneous rupture of a leiomyoma vessel or …

Journal de Gynecologie Obstetrique et Biologie de la Reproduction - Vol. 38 - N° 5 - p. 404-410

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this work was to develop a French version of an English quality of life questionnaire specific of endometriosis: endometriosis health profile 5. MATERIALS AND METHODS: After many translations and reverse translations…

Journal de Gynecologie Obstetrique et Biologie de la Reproduction - Vol. 30 - N° HS 1 - p. 485-0

OBJECTIVE: To determine if isolated retroversion is a cause of pelvic pain symptoms. STUDY DESIGN: One hundred and eleven premenopausal women consulting for routine examination in the gynecology department of two hospitals and two gynecolo…