Treatment of Endometriosis
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This review discusses medical therapies for endometriosis, including established options like oral contraceptives and GnRH agonists, as well as emerging treatments such as GnRH antagonists and aromatase inhibitors.
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Endometriosis is defined as the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, which induced a chronic inflammatory reaction. Endometriosis is associated with severe dysmenorrhea, deep dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, ovulation pain, cyclical, or perimenstrual symptoms, with or without abnormal bleeding, infertility, and chronic fatigue. Therapies can be useful to relieve and sometimes solve the symptoms, encourage fertility, eliminate endometrial lesions, and restore the anatomy of the pelvis. For medical therapy, several different preparations (oral contraceptives, progestogenics, gestrinone, danazol, and GnRHa) and new options (GnRH antagonists, aromatase inhibitors, estrogen receptor beta agoinist, progesterone receptor modulators, angiogenesis inhibitors, and COX-2 selective inhibitors) are available.
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- Traditional Chinese medicine prescription Guizhi Fuling Pills in the treatment of endometriosis 2021
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Cited by (4)
- Traditional Chinese medicine prescription Guizhi Fuling Pills in the treatment of endometriosis 2021
- Endometriosi e infertilità: impatto su sessualità, relazione di coppia, qualità della vita e benessere psicologico 2017
- Prevalence of high‐risk human papillomavirus infection in women with ovarian endometriosis 2016
- Curcumin inhibits endometriosis endometrial cells by reducing estradiol production. 2013
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