Is There a Rationale for GnRH Analogue Therapy in Endometriosis?

Ivo Brosens, Freddy Cornillie, Patrick Puttemans
In: GnRH Analogues in Reproduction and Gynecology · 1990 · pp. 1–6 · doi:10.1007/978-94-009-0721-8_1 · W1596415044
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This paper discusses diagnostic criteria and evaluation of response to medical therapy for endometriosis, a common gynecological disease with controversial pathogenesis and pathophysiology.

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This chapter discusses the rationale for GnRH analogue therapy in endometriosis by reviewing criteria used to diagnose endometriosis and to evaluate response to medical therapy, alongside ongoing controversies in the field’s understanding of pathogenesis and pathophysiology. It synthesizes prior evidence and frameworks for assessing therapeutic effects, emphasizing how outcomes are judged in studies of medical treatments. The main limitation is that, as a narrative review/chapter, it does not present new primary clinical data and instead highlights conceptual and methodological issues in evaluating treatments. Relevance to endometriosis: the paper is explicitly about endometriosis and the rationale for GnRH analogue therapy, including how diagnosis and treatment response evaluation criteria are discussed in that context.

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