Pulmonary Endometriosis: Treatment Tactics
This paper describes two cases of pulmonary endometriosis with hemoptysis, one treated with pneumonectomy and the other with dienogest, with positive outcomes.
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This paper reports two clinical observations of pulmonary endometriosis presenting with hemoptysis, including one 34-year-old woman with menses-associated coughing up blood since 1969 who ultimately underwent right pneumonectomy after earlier hemorrhage control and refusal of bronchologic assessment/biopsy, and one 25-year-old woman with concomitant adenomyosis and menses-linked hemoptysis treated with a continuous 6-month course of dienogest. Diagnostic workups included bronchoscopy/bronchography, CT imaging, and—when performed—histologic/immunohistologic confirmation of endometrioid tissue, with the second case describing biopsy findings in bronchial tissue alongside uterine disease improvement. In the first case, hemoptysis reportedly ceased after pneumonectomy with 10 years of follow-up and no pathology in the left lung or tracheobronchial tree, while the second case describes disappearance of clinical and instrumental manifestations in both lung and uterus during/after dienogest therapy. A major limitation explicitly implied by the narrative is that the first patient declined recommended bronchologic evaluation and biopsy prior to surgery, and only case-report-level evidence is provided. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it specifically focuses on pulmonary endometriosis complicated by hemoptysis and discusses treatment tactics including surgery and dienogest in a patient with adenomyosis.
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- Endometriosis – Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Options for Clinical and Ambulatory Care 2013
- [Thoracic endometriosis--the rare pathology in thoracic surgery]. 2014
- [Thoracic endometriosis and catamenial pneumothorax]. 2014
- Pulmonary endometriosis as a form of endometrial disease 2016
Cited by (4)
- The rarest forms of endometriosis 2022
- The Problem of Treatment of Endometriosis-Associated Pneumothrax: Difficult Diagnosis or Failes of Tactics? 2019
- Recurrent catamenial tension pneumothorax in a patient with endometriosis 2021
- Catamenial pneumotorax as a special form of spontaneous pneumotorax (literature review) 2020
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- Endometriosis – Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Options for Clinical and Ambulatory Care via openalex
- Pulmonary endometriosis as a form of endometrial disease via openalex
- [Thoracic endometriosis and catamenial pneumothorax]. via openalex
- [Thoracic endometriosis--the rare pathology in thoracic surgery]. via openalex
- W1981771046 via openalex
- W2078154451 via openalex
Cited by (4)
- The rarest forms of endometriosis 2022
- Recurrent catamenial tension pneumothorax in a patient with endometriosis 2021
- Catamenial pneumotorax as a special form of spontaneous pneumotorax (literature review) 2020
- The Problem of Treatment of Endometriosis-Associated Pneumothrax: Difficult Diagnosis or Failes of Tactics? 2019
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