The success of various endometrioma treatments in infertility: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of prospective studies

Saeed Alborzi, Ziba Zahiri Sorouri, Elham Askari, Tahereh Poordast, Kefayat Chamanara
Reproductive medicine and biology · 2019 · vol. 18(4) , pp. 312–322 · doi:10.1002/rmb2.12286 · PMID:31607791 · W2952508095
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This systematic review and meta-analysis compared pregnancy rates in infertile women undergoing surgery plus ART, surgery plus spontaneous pregnancy, aspiration plus ART, or ART alone for ovarian endometriomas, finding no significant differences but higher success with surgery.

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BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is seen in 0.5%-5% of fertile and 25%-40% of infertile women. To investigate this conflict between gynecologists that ovarian endometriomas should be removed or not before making any decision about pregnancy among infertile women, the authors decided to carry out a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare the effect of various available therapeutic methods and notice the impact of these options on women's pregnancy rate. METHODS: This review is based on PRISMA recommendations with an electronic search using the following databases: PubMed, Scopus, Google scholar, etc, from 2000 to 2018, in the English language. The studies compare pregnancy rate based on four different treatment types of OMAs between infertile women: (surgery + ART, surgery + spontaneous pregnancy, aspiration ± sclerotherapy + ART, and ART alone). MAIN FINDINGS: At least eight prospective studies were included, in which 553 infertile women were compared in terms of treatment methods of OMAs before trying to become pregnant. CONCLUSION: Treatments are usually based on the patient's clinical condition and must be individual, with the purpose of relieving pain, improving fertility, or both. The authors do not have not any significant difference between our four groups of study; however, the success of surgical procedure compared to other methods was higher and the success of ART alone was the least.

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