Robotic Assisted Lapendoscopic Single-Site Surgery for Ileal Deep Endometriosis. A Case Report and Review of Literature.

The prevalence of deep endometriosis invading the bowel is unknown but has been estimated to affect between 3.8% and 37% of women with endometriosis. The most common locations of bowel endometriosis are the sigmoid colon and rectum.

Norethindrone-Associated Transaminitis in Endometriosis Patients: A Case Series and Literature Review.

In this case series, we discuss 10 cases of norethindrone-induced transaminitis and conduct a literature review of this rare adverse event. A retrospective chart review was conducted on 10 patients (median age: 33 years) with diverse endometriosis phenotypes who received norethindrone and subsequently developed transaminitis, which is defined as elevated alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) levels. This condition was diagnosed in both asymptomatic and symptomatic patients, either during the work-up of acute symptoms or incidentally through routine lab tests.

Health Care Utilization by Patients With Chronic Pelvic Pain.

Objective: To describe the patterns of health care utilization among patients with chronic pelvic pain.

Methods: Deidentified administrative claims data from the OptumLabs Data Warehouse were used. Adult female patients who had their first medical claim for chronic pelvic pain between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2019, were included.

Navigating towards precision: evaluating the clinical value of non-invasive biomarkers for the diagnosis of endometriosis.

Introduction: Endometriosis is a chronic disease that affects millions of women worldwide, causing dysmenorrhea, chronic pain, and infertility, and has a significant impact on the healthcare system. Despite efforts to understand its pathogenesis, endometriosis is a disease with heterogeneous presentations and phenotypes which is manifested in part by the lack of a non-invasive biomarker available for its diagnosis. This review aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice by summarizing the most promising areas of study for developing a reliable biomarker or combination of biomarkers for the non-invasive diagnosis of endometriosis.

Endometriosis biomarkers of the disease: an update.

Purpose Of Review: Endometriosis is a complex benign gynaecologic condition with heterogenous presentations and a large impact on the global healthcare system and on the quality of life for millions of women. Currently, the gold standard for diagnosis involves direct visualization of lesions during surgery confirmed by histopathological diagnosis, resulting in an average delay in its initial diagnosis of 8-10 years. Therefore, the search for noninvasive diagnostic testing options has been subject to a large body of research.

The unintended consequences of sex education: an ethnography of a development intervention in Latin America.

This paper is an ethnography of a four-year, multi-disciplinary adolescent sexual and reproductive health intervention in Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador. An important goal of the intervention--and of the larger global field of adolescent sexual and reproductive health--is to create more open parent-to-teen communication. This paper analyzes the project's efforts to foster such communication and how social actors variously interpreted, responded to, and repurposed the intervention's language and practices.