Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983)

Cardiovascular diseases are become the primary cause of death in women. The cardiovascular risk of the woman has unknown specificities and remains underestimated. At equal age, women have more cardio vascular risk factors than men. All thes…

The diagnosis of pelvic endometriosis is based on the combination of clinical examination, endovaginal ultrasonography and pelvic MRI. Ultrasonography displays a moderate sensitivity and a high specificity. Pelvien MRI displays a better sen…

Preoperative evaluation: clinical examination, and research for associated lesions. Laparoscopic approach. Cystectomy: gold standard, conformed to the endometrioma pathophysiology (3 zones). Laser CO2 Plasmajet® vaporisation: important data…

Endometriosis affects 6 to 10 % of all women of childbearing age. Intestinal involvement is defined by muscularis infiltration and has been estimated to occur in 8 % to 12 % of women with endometriosis. The most common sites are rectum, sig…

INTRODUCTION: Catamenial pneumothorax occurs in women during the menses. It is frequently associated with diaphragmatic fenestrations or episodes of pleural endometriosis. OBSERVATION: We report the case of a patients who had presented 25 e…

UNLABELLED: UTERINE DISORDERS: Because they can prevent implantation, anomalies within the uterine cavity play an important role in fertility. The uterine disorders most often observed during hysteroscopy and implicated in infertility are a…

THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS: Antiprogestins are a promising class of therapeutic agents in the field of reproductive health. Mifepristone (exRU486) remains the leading compound of this class and is the only one presently used in clinical pract…

FREQUENT: The most frequent deep localization, endometriosis of the rectovaginal septum may penetrate into the vagina or rectum. MEDICAL TREATMENT: Hormone therapy suppresses menstruation if a short-term regimen is given, but the cost of lo…

RU 486 is the code name for mifepristone, a 19-norsteroid first synthesized in 1980. Its chemical structure is similar to progesterone and progesterone derivatives. The difference lies in an 11 beta ring substitution which results in high a…

Since the chemical structure of gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) was discovered in 1971, several antagonist and agonist analogues have been synthesized. Via different mechanisms, these 2 classes of analogues inhibit luteinizing hormon…

We report the first published case of pregnancy obtained with a self-preserved embryo in a woman who, in 1987, had been castrated for a tumoral and painful pelvic disease retrospectively diagnosed as endometriosis. This woman had an old-sta…