What Is Endometriosis?
7. Treatment and Management
Since the symptoms of endometriosis occur according to the cyclical hormones, the medical therapy will be based on the cycle. Some of the medications include progestins, oral contraceptive pills, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, aromatase inhibitors, and androgens.
Women who preserve their reproductive potential have a 44% chance of recurrent pain for surgical management and 53% for medical management. To help with conception, options include in vitro fertilization, superovulation, and intrauterine insemination. Other medication that may help but have little to no evidence to support their clinical use for endometriosis are nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), opioids, pentoxifylline, statins, cyclo-oxygenase-2 inhibitors, and angiogenesis inhibitors.
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