Disease Locations and Surgical Management
Not all cases of endometriosis are the same. You’ve probably heard that endometriosis can affect the ovaries, causing chocolate cysts (also known as endometriomas). However, deep endometriosis can be found in many different locations, both inside and outside the female pelvis. Each of these locations (although most are, fortunately, less common) requires a different surgical […]
Endometriosis and Miscarriage: Is there a link?
Studies have demonstrated that the endometrium of women with endometriosis is different to that of women without endometriosis (1,2). Those differences may interfere with normal implantation as well as placental growth (3). However, the existing literature has demonstrated conflicting results regarding a possible link between endometriosis and miscarriage. Let us have a look at the […]
Stages of Endometriosis
Other than the 3 types of disease, we also have stages of endometriosis. As we now know, endometriosis is a heterogeneous disease and, therefore, staging of endometriosis is not always an easy task. This is why there are, up to this date, more than one staging systems of endometriosis. The 3 most commonly used are: […]
Does Endometriosis get worse over time?
It is not clear how the disease evolves with time. In its deep form (DIE), it is likely that endometriosis is a progressive disease (getting progressively worse over time1). This only makes sense, if we accept that large lesions must have developed over a period of time. The rate of progress is unlikely to be […]