Exploratory study of the interest of MR susceptibility-weighted imaging for the pre-operative assessment of pelvic endometriosis extent.

Objective: To evaluate the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) in the assessment of endometriosis.

Material And Methods: This prospective study was performed during the diagnostic step or the pre-operative assessment of endometriosis, between June 2017 and April 2018. The MRI was conducted with a 3T MRI device; protocol included T2W, T1W, with and without fat-saturation sequences completed with a SWI sequence: T2-star weighted angiography (SWAN).

Outcome of patients with uterine fibroids after 3-month ulipristal acetate therapy.

Objectives: To determine the proportion and the characteristics of patients who did or did not respond after 3 months of ulipristal acetate (UPA) therapy.

Study Design: In this retrospective cohort study conducted in the University Hospital of Bordeaux (France) and University Medical Center Ljubljana (Slovenia), symptomatic non-menopausal patients with fibroids that qualified for surgery were pretreated by 3 months of oral UPA 5 mg/day. Clinical success was defined by normalization of the bleeding score, and/or regression of pelvic pain, and/or abdominal distension.