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Catherine Allaire, Mohamed A Bedaiwy, Paul J Yong
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023 · vol. 195(24) , pp. E853–E862 · doi:10.1503/cmaj.220637-f · PMID:37336562 · PMC10281206 · W4381166597
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This review covers the diagnosis and therapeutic management of endometriosis, outlining its definition, prevalence, risk factors, and treatment options.

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This 2023 CMAJ narrative review examines epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical subtypes, diagnosis, and therapeutic management for endometriosis, synthesizing targeted non-systematic MEDLINE searches and emphasizing clinical practice guidelines and evidence including randomized trials. It summarizes that endometriosis—characterized by estrogen-influenced ectopic pseudo-endometrial tissue—can affect multiple pelvic and extra-pelvic organs, with symptoms such as dysmenorrhea, deep dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility, and it notes that disease extent does not reliably correlate with symptom severity; the review states an explicit limitation that the literature search was targeted and non-systematic. Key findings include that endometriosis may progress, remain stable, or regress over 6–12 months in untreated groups, and that although no curative treatment exists, management includes hormonal suppression, surgery, multidisciplinary pain care, and consideration of central sensitization/nociplastic pain in persistent pain. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it reviews diagnostic approaches and therapeutic management for the chronic condition.

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[Voir la version anglaise de l’article ici: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.220637][1]; [pour connaître le point de vue d’une personne atteinte d’endométriose, voir www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.230215-f][2] Points clés L’endométriose est une affection chronique définie par

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endometriosis

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Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Endometriosis Female Female Female

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