Prevalence, Clinical and Laparoscopic Features of Endometriosis Among Infertile Women

OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence, clinical and laparoscopic characteristics of endometriosis in infertile women. STUDY DESIGN: This is a hospital-based prospective study. PATIENTS: Five hundred and two (502) patients underwent diagnostic laparoscopy for evaluation of cause for infertility. Staging of endometriosis was done according to the rAFS scoring system. RESULTS: Out of 502 women, 276 (54.98 %) showed the presence of endometriosis, while 226 (45.01 %) did not have endometriosis. One hundred and eighty-three (66.3 %) women had stage I endometriosis, 49 (17.77 %) had stage II, 23 (8.33 %) had stage III and 21 (7.6 %) had stage IV endometriosis. CONCLUSION: More than 50 % of patients in our study were asymptomatic; however, the presence of menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, dyspareunia and chronic pelvic pain are also clinically statistically significant. So, we would like to recommend the evaluation and treatment of a patient reporting in gynaecological OPD with the above-mentioned complaints with high suspicion of endometriosis.