Clinical Study of Catamenial Pneumothorax
This retrospective study of eight catamenial pneumothorax patients found that while initial surgical treatment had a high recurrence rate, subsequent treatment with dienogest or GnRHa combination therapy prevented further episodes.
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This retrospective clinical study examined 8 patients with catamenial pneumothorax who underwent thoracoscopic lung surgery for pneumothorax between 1989 and 2014 and in whom endometriosis was pathologically confirmed in the lung, pleura, or diaphragm. The median age was 37 years, most cases were right-sided (7/8), and among those assessed, most had concurrent pelvic endometriosis (5/6). After surgery, 6/8 developed pneumothorax recurrence, including 2 recurrences during dienogest-only treatment, but recurrence prevention was reported in all cases with postoperative use of dienogest or GnRH agonist plus dienogest sequential therapy, with no postoperative recurrences among the GnRHa-treated patients. The paper concludes that standardizing effective recurrence prevention may require more case accumulation and also notes the need for high medication adherence due to pneumothorax urgency. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it specifically studies catamenial pneumothorax as a form of thoracic endometriosis and evaluates postoperative hormonal treatment and recurrence patterns.
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