Journal
TAIWANESE JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 6, Pages 927-934Publisher
ELSEVIER TAIWAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.tjog.2022.08.002
Keywords
Endometriosis; Clinical diagnosis; Empirical medical treatment; Management; Therapeutic test
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- Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan [V110C-082, V111C-103, V111A-009]
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Executive Yuan, Taipei, Taiwan [MOST: 110-2314-B-075-016 MY3, MOST: 111-2314-B-075-045]
- Female Cancer Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
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Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that often leads to pain and infertility, causing significant impact on daily life and socio-economic burden. The main goals of therapy include reducing pain, correcting infertility, and preventing or delaying long-term complications associated with endometriosis. Despite advancements in technology and understanding of the underlying pathophysiology, there are still many debated issues in the diagnosis and management of endometriosis.
Endometriosis, manifested by pain and infertility, is a chronic inflammatory disease, associated with a large disability of daily living, causing a socio-economic diastrophic problem and burden. The main goal of therapy attempts to reduce pain, correct infertility and possibly avoid or delay occurrence of long-term endometriosis-associated sequelae, such as fibrosis, adhesion and malignant transformation. Although the advanced technology (minimally invasive diagnostic tools, magnetic resonance imaging, highresolution vaginal ultrasound etc.) and the better understanding pathophysiology of endometriosis for development of new therapeutic strategy is continuous for both diagnosis and management of endometriosis, there is still presence of many debated issues, which commonly occur in routine clinical practice. For example, the timing and duration of medications may be one of most frequently discussed issues. In this part I, we would like to overview the general background knowledge (basic concept) about the endometriosis, and emphasize the role of clinical diagnosis and possible empirical medical treatment (therapeutic test) for the management of women with endometriosis. (c) 2022 Taiwan Association of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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