Pulmonary Endometriosis: Treatment Tactics

In: Novosti Khirurgii · 2018 · vol. 26(1) , pp. 103–108 · doi:10.18484/2305-0047.2018.1.103 · W2791525630
article OA: diamond CC0 ⤵ 4 in-corpus citations
📄 Open PDF View on OpenAlex View at publisher
AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-07

This paper describes two cases of pulmonary endometriosis with hemoptysis, one treated with pneumonectomy and the other with dienogest, with positive outcomes.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

AI-generated deep summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-07

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.

Read from the paper's body, not the abstract. Not a substitute for reading the paper. No clinical advice. How this works

Abstract

Российская ФедерацияВ статье представлены два клинических наблюдения редко встречающейся патологии -легочного эндометриоза, осложненного кровохарканьем.Пациентка 34 лет отмечала периодическое кровохарканье во время menses с 1969 года.В возрасте 19 лет ей была выполнена экстренная операция по поводу легочного кровотечения, которое было остановлено перевязкой корня промежуточного бронха лигатурой из-за возникшей фибрилляции желудочков и нестабильной гемодинамики.В последующем периодическое кровохарканье продолжалось, но больная отказывалась от бронхологического обследования и биопсии.27.10.1983г. выполнена правосторонняя пневмонэктомия, во время которой обнаружены пневмоцирроз нижней и средней долей и очаги эндометриоидной ткани в верхней доле правого легкого.При диспансерном наблюдении в течение 10 лет кровохарканье не наблюдалось, патологии со стороны трахеи, бронхов и левого легкого не обнаружено.Второе наблюдение демонстрирует эффективность 6-месячного непрерывного курса лечения легочного эндометриоза в сочетании с аденомиозом с применением диеногеста у пациентки 25 лет, который сопровождался не только подавлением активности очагов эндометриоза, но и исчезновением клинико-инструментальных проявлений как в матке, так и в легком.В данном наблюдении длительность заболевания до лечения была 3 месяца; у обеих пациенток был неблагоприятный гинекологический анамнез.Ключевые слова: экстрагенитальный эндометриоз, легочный эндометриоз, кровохарканье, аденомиоз, диеногест, диагностика, лечебная тактикаThe article presents two clinical observations of a rare pathology, pulmonary endometriosis, complicated by hemoptysis.A 34-year-old female patient has had periodic hemoptysis during menses since 1969.At the age of 19 she underwent an emergency operation for pulmonary hemorrhage, which was stopped by the ligation of the intermediate bronchus root with the ligature due to ventricular fibrillation and unstable hemodynamics.Subsequently, periodic hemoptysis continued, but the patient refused to undergo bronchial examination and biopsy.27.10.1983a right-sided pneumonectomy was performed, during which the pneumocirrhosis of the lower and middle lobes and foci of the endometrioid tissue in the upper lobe of the right lung were observed.During the follow-up for 10 years, hemoptysis has not been observed, pathology from the side of the trachea bronchial tubes and left lung has not been detected.The second observation demonstrates the effectiveness of a 6-month continuous course of treatment of pulmonary endometriosis in combination with adenomyosis with the use of dienogest in a 25-year-old patient, which was accompanied not only by the activity suppression of the endometriosis foci, but also by the disappearance of clinical and instrumental manifestations both in the uterus, and in the lung.In this observation, the duration of the disease before treatment was 3 months; both patients had an unfavorable gynecological anamnesis.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Condition tags

endometriosisadenomyosis

Citation neighborhood (sparse)

Too few in-corpus citations on either side for a chart; here are the lists.

Cites (4)

Cited by (4)

References (6)

Cited by (4)

Source provenance

openalex
last seen: 2026-06-10T17:14:06.276822+00:00
License: CC0 · commercial use OK