Laparoscopy vs. Robotic Surgery for Endometriosis (LAROSE): a multicenter, randomized, controlled trial
Enrique Soto,Thanh Ha Luu,Xiaobo Liu,Javier F. Magrina,Megan Wasson,Jon I. Einarsson,Sarah L. Cohen,Tommaso Falcone +7 more
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There were no differences in perioperative outcomes between robotic and conventional laparoscopy and both groups reported significant improvement on condition-specific quality of life outcomes at 6 weeks and 6 months.About:
This article is published in Fertility and Sterility.The article was published on 2017-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 70 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perioperative & Laparoscopic surgery.read more
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Endometriosis is a chronic systemic disease: clinical challenges and novel innovations
TL;DR: Endometriosis is classically defined as a chronic, gynaecological disease characterised by endometrial-like tissue present outside of the uterus and is thought to arise by retrograde menstruation as discussed by the authors.
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Laparoscopic surgery for endometriosis
James Duffy,Kirana Arambage,Frederico José Silva Corrêa,David L. Olive,Cindy Farquhar,Ray Garry,David H. Barlow,Tal Z Jacobson +7 more
TL;DR: This review has drawn on the search strategy developed by the Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group including searching Central, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO and trial registries from inception to July 2013 to assess the effectiveness and safety of laparoscopic surgery in the treatment of painful symptoms and subfertility associated with endometriosis.
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Systematic review of quality of life measures in patients with endometriosis
Nicolas Bourdel,Pauline Chauvet,Valentina Billone,Giannis Douridas,Arnaud Fauconnier,Laurent Gerbaud,M. Canis +6 more
TL;DR: The SF-36, a generic HRQoL measure, was found to be the most frequently used scale, followed by the EHP-30, a measure specific to endometriosis, and both perform well, when compared with other scales, with scale weaknesses offset by strengths.
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Endometriosis: Epidemiology, Classification, Pathogenesis, Treatment and Genetics (Review of Literature).
TL;DR: A review of the literature on endometriosis can be found in this paper, where the etiological factors, congenital, environmental, epigenetic, autoimmune and allergic factors are listed.
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When more is not better: 10 'don'ts' in endometriosis management. An ETIC* position statement.
TL;DR: The proposal is to better address medical and surgical approaches to endometriosis de-implementing low-value interventions, with the aim to prevent unnecessary morbidity, limit psychological distress, and reduce the burden of treatment avoiding medical overuse and allowing a more equitable distribution of healthcare resources.
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A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey: Construction of Scales and Preliminary Tests of Reliability and Validity
TL;DR: Twenty cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of empirical validity previously published for the 36-item short-form scales and summary measures were replicated for the 12-item Physical Component Summary and the12-item Mental Component Summary, including comparisons between patient groups known to differ or to change in terms of the presence and seriousness of physical and mental conditions.
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Revised American Fertility Society classification of endometriosis: 1985
W. C. Andrews,V. C. Buttram,S. J. Behrman,E. Carmichael,M. R. Cohen,P. Dmowski,R. D. Eward,David S. Guzick,H. W. Jones,R. W. Kistner,J. C. Weed,Charles B. Hammond,H. H. Thomas +12 more
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The burden of endometriosis: costs and quality of life of women with endometriosis and treated in referral centres
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Surgical Treatment of Endometriosis A 7-Year Follow-up on the Requirement for Further Surgery
TL;DR: Local excision of endometriosis is associated with good short-term outcomes but, on long-term follow-up, has a high reoperation rate, while hysterectomy isassociated with a low re operation rate.
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Development of an endometriosis quality-of-life instrument: The Endometriosis Health Profile-30.
Georgina Jones,Stephen Kennedy,Stephen Kennedy,Angela Barnard,Angela Barnard,Josephine Wong,Josephine Wong,Crispin Jenkinson,Crispin Jenkinson +8 more
TL;DR: The Endometiosis Health Profile‐30 is a reliable, valid, patient‐generated instrument to measure the health‐related quality of life of women with endometriosis and its application in various health care settings will provide new and valuable information on the effect of endometRIosis on health‐ related quality oflife from the patients' perspective.