Increased platelet count in severe peritoneal endometriosis

Mehmet Sıddık Evsen, M S Evsen, Hatice Ender Soydinç, H E Soydinc, M E Sak, Muhammed Erdal Sak, Ali Özler, A Ozler, A Turgut, Ali Turgut, Yusuf Çelik, Y Celik, Senem Yaman Tunç, S Y Tunc, Talip Gül, T Gul
Clinical and experimental obstetrics & gynecology · 2014 · vol. 41(4) , pp. 423–425 · doi:10.12891/ceog16702014 · PMID:25134290 · W2298644705
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Patients with advanced stage peritoneal endometriosis showed significantly higher platelet counts compared to healthy controls, suggesting increased systemic inflammation.

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This retrospective tertiary-center study evaluated platelet counts in women with advanced-stage pelvic endometriosis, comparing women with severe peritoneal endometriosis (n=28), women with ovarian endometrioma without clinically apparent peritoneal foci (n=29), and healthy controls (n=51) collected between 2009 and 2011. Platelet counts were measured and compared across groups using Student’s t tests, one-way ANOVA, and post-hoc Bonferroni testing. The authors found higher platelet counts in patients with pelvic endometriosis than in controls, and specifically that the peritoneal endometriosis group had significantly higher platelet counts than healthy controls. The paper does not describe adjustment for potential confounders or other inflammatory markers, limiting interpretation of systemic inflammation as the causal explanation. This paper is centrally about endometriosis—specifically increased platelet count in severe peritoneal endometriosis, with systemic inflammation discussed as a possible underlying feature.

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Platelet count (PC) is higher in chronic inflammatory diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the PC in patients with severe pelvic endometriosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients with advanced stage pelvic endometriosis were retrospectively evaluated in a tertiary center between January 2009 and December 2011. Patients with pelvic endometriosis were divided into two groups; advanced stage peritoneal endometriosis were classified as Group 1 (n = 28). Group 2 consisted of 29 patients which had ovarian endometrioma without clinically apparent peritoneal endometriosis foci. Group 3 included 51 women as control subjects. PC between the groups was tested by Student's t test. The mean values of three groups were analyzed by using one way ANOVA test followed post-hoc test Bonferroni. RESULTS: PC in patients with pelvic endometriosis were found to be higher from the control group (290 +/- 67 10(9)/1; 264 +/- 63 10(9)/1, respectively; p = 0.038). Patients with peritoneal endometriosis (Group 1) had significantly higher PCs compared with the healthy controls (309 +/- 65 10(9)/1; 264 +/- 63 10(9)/1; respectively; p = 0.011). CONCLUSION: Increased PC in advanced stage pelvic endometriosis may be a sign of increased systemic inflammation. The systemic inflammation may be more apparent in advanced stage peritoneal endometriosis.

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endometriosisendometrioma

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Endometriosis Peritoneal Diseases Adolescent Adult Child Child, Preschool Endometriosis Female Humans Ovarian Diseases Ovarian Diseases Peritoneal Diseases Platelet Count Young Adult

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