Two cases of catamenial pneumothorax
This paper reports two cases of catamenial pneumothorax, a rare form of spontaneous pneumothorax associated with menstruation, successfully treated with hormonal therapy after surgery.
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The paper reports two cases of catamenial pneumothorax occurring within 72 hours of menstruation in women with thoracic endometriosis suspected intraoperatively, managed with surgical treatment followed by hormonal suppression. In both cases, patients underwent thoracic surgery (including wedge resection and diaphragm repair/related procedures), and then received a GnRH agonist (leuprorelin acetate in case 1; triptorelin acetate in case 2) with subsequent progestin and/or oral contraceptive use; both patients were followed as outpatients and had no further pneumothorax recurrences except one early recurrence during the first menstrual period after treatment in case 2. A key limitation is that this is a small case report series with limited diagnostic confirmation, as one case’s thoracoscopic lesion was not definitively proven as endometriosis by pathology. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it describes two cases of thoracic catamenial pneumothorax attributed to endometrial deposits and treated with GnRH agonist plus progestin/oral pills.
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