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H. W. Jones
Bio: H. W. Jones is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Endometriosis and infertility & Endometriosis. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1641 citations.
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TL;DR: Endometriosis impairs HRQoL and work productivity across countries and ethnicities, yet women continue to experience diagnostic delays in primary care, and a higher index of suspicion is needed to expedite specialist assessment of symptomatic women.
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TL;DR: A randomized, controlled trial to determine whether laparoscopic surgery enhanced fecundity in infertile women with minimal or mild endometriosis and found 50 became pregnant and had pregnancies that continued for 20 weeks or longer.
Abstract: Background Minimal or mild endometriosis is frequently diagnosed in infertile women. It is often treated by resection or ablation of the lesions, but whether this improves fertility has not been established. We carried out a randomized, controlled trial to determine whether laparoscopic surgery enhanced fecundity in infertile women with minimal or mild endometriosis. Methods We studied 341 infertile women 20 to 39 years of age with minimal or mild endometriosis. During diagnostic laparoscopy the women were randomly assigned to undergo resection or ablation of visible endometriosis or diagnostic laparoscopy only. They were followed for 36 weeks after the laparoscopy or, for those who became pregnant during that interval, for up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Results Among the 172 women who had resection or ablation of endometriosis, 50 became pregnant and had pregnancies that continued for 20 weeks or longer, as compared with 29 of the 169 women in the diagnostic-laparoscopy group (cumulative probabilities, 30....
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