Hormone therapy for patients with endometriosis: status update on the problem (literature review)
This literature review examines current hormone therapy approaches for endometriosis, discussing treatment goals, drug efficacy, side effects, and individualized treatment strategies.
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This literature review analyzes the current state of hormonal pharmacotherapy for endometriosis, focusing on available evidence for hormone-based strategies to reduce endometriosis-related symptoms and how treatment is selected in Russian clinical recommendations. It concludes that there is no universally effective medication that fully eliminates endometriotic lesions without pronounced side effects, and that the evidence base from randomized clinical trials is limited by methodological quality. The review describes proposed algorithms for choosing between surgical and medical approaches and outlines principles of action of hormonal drugs, emphasizing individualized selection based on disease extent, symptom profile, tolerance, cost, clinician experience, and adherence. The paper does not explicitly discuss adenomyosis; it was included in the corpus via a keyword match in the upstream search index. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it reviews hormonal therapy status and evidence for treating endometriosis.
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