Medikamentöse Therapie der Endometriose
Hormonal therapies for endometriosis are symptomatic, not curative, with oral contraceptives and gestagens recommended as first-line treatments for pain reduction.
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This paper reviews medication-based management of endometriosis, focusing on hormonal therapies and their effects on symptoms and fertility in women treated in clinical practice settings. It reports that pharmacologic hormonal treatment is symptomatic rather than causal, does not improve natural fertility, and that options for pain reduction are broadly equivalent after 6 months of therapy, with treatment choice and duration recommended to be symptom-driven rather than based on disease extent. The authors state that first-line options are oral contraceptives or progestogens, while GnRH analogs are second-line and should be used with add-back; they note the caveat that expected benefits are strongest for dysmenorrhea and only moderate for other typical complaints. Relevance to endometriosis: the entire chapter is a targeted overview of medication therapy for endometriosis and explicitly discusses treatment selection (OC/progestogens vs GnRH analogs) and symptomatic outcomes.
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