Publications by authors named "Dietmar Haas"

Objective: The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of surgical removal of endometriosis on dyspareunia, sexual function, quality of sex life and interpersonal relationships.

Study Design: A questionnaire-based multicentre prospective study was conducted in six tertiary referral centres in Austria and Germany. Ninety-six patients with histologically proven endometriosis and dyspareunia were included.

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Purpose: Several studies have demonstrated that laparoscopic colonic resection has significant benefits in comparison with open approaches in patients with benign and malignant disease. The proportion of colonic and rectal resections conducted laparoscopically in Austria is not currently known; the aim of this study was to evaluate the current status of laparoscopic colonic surgery in Austria.

Materials And Methods: A questionnaire was distributed to all general surgical departments in Austria.

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Background: In severe forms of endometriosis, the colon or rectum may be involved. This study evaluated the functional results and long-term outcome after laparoscopic colonic resection for endometriosis.

Patients And Methods: Questionnaire survey with 24 women who had experienced typical symptoms, including pelvic pain, infertility, and endometriotic lesions in the bowel and undergone laparoscopic surgery, including low anterior resection, from 2009 to 2012, was conducted.

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Objective: To evaluate patients' health status and the course of endometriosis from the premenopausal to the postmenopausal period and evaluate influencing factors that may be relevant.

Methods: Questionnaire completed by 35 postmenopausal women in whom endometriosis had been histologically confirmed premenopausally. Correlation and regression analyses were carried out to identify factors relevant to their postmenopausal health status.

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Background: During laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LCHE), the insufflation with warmed and humidified carbon dioxide (CO2) may reduce postoperative pain. The aim of the study was to evaluate the positive effects of heated and humidified carbon dioxide gas on patients with regard to postoperative pain after LCHE.

Patients And Methods: This is a prospective, randomized, double-blinded, controlled clinical trial.

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Aim: To evaluate whether the classic risk factors for Allen-Masters syndrome, such as body mass index (BMI) and spontaneous births, are in fact responsible for the condition in patients with endometriosis.

Methods: A total of 26 women who underwent a laparoscopic procedure due to chronic pelvic pain, Allen-Masters syndrome and endometriosis from 2009-2011 were enrolled in this study from an endometriosis competence center specializing in minimally invasive surgery. This was a retrospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

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Purpose: The literature includes a wealth of medical data on endometriosis, but the economic significance of the condition has so far been neglected. An analysis of hospital costs for endometriosis in Austria was, therefore, carried out for economic purposes.

Methods: Seventy-three patients with endometriosis were included in the study.

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Objective: To assess the extent to which the Enzian classification correlates with the revised American Society for Reproductive Medicine (rASRM) score and clinical symptoms in women with deeply infiltrating endometriosis.

Design: Retrospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: Endometriosis competence center specializing in minimally invasive surgery.

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Purpose: The most widely accepted classification for endometriosis is the Revised American Society for Reproductive Medicine (rASRM) system, but this does not take deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) into account. The Enzian classification enables clinicians to classify DIE. Due to complexity and partial overlap with rASRM, it was revised for a second time in February 2011.

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Objective: To use the ENZIAN classification for preoperative estimation of laparoscopic operating time in patients with deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE).

Study Design: Retrospective study of women with DIE (n=151) who underwent laparoscopic surgery.

Results: 151 of 470 patients had DIE (n=205 lesions) exclusively in compartments A (rectovaginal septum, vagina), B (sacrouterine ligament to the pelvic wall) and C (rectum, sigmoid colon).

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The revised American Society for Reproductive Medicine (rASRM) score is currently the best-known classification of endometriosis and is the one most widely used throughout the world. It is relatively easy to use, but it does not take into account the involvement of retroperitoneal structures with deeply infiltrating endometriosis. For this reason, the Enzian classification was developed as a supplement to the rASRM score, in order to provide a morphologically descriptive classification of deeply infiltrating endometriosis.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to estimate the financial burden of in-patients costs for endometriosis treatment in Germany in 2006.

Methods: Data from a national in-patient database for women of reproductive age who were admitted for surgical treatment for endometriosis were analysed retrospectively. The number and type of hospital admissions involving surgical interventions for endometriosis were identified, and the costs of these hospitalizations to funding bodies in Germany were estimated using the diagnosis-related group reimbursement rates.

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Purpose: The objectives of this study were to examine the age distribution among women suffering from endometriosis and to establish that endometriosis is not a disease that occurs only in premenopausal women. The null hypothesis was that there are also postmenopausal women with endometriosis.

Methods: In a retrospective epidemiological study, a descriptive analysis of data from the Federal Statistical Office in Germany for 2005 and 2006 was carried out.

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Objective: To develop a classification that takes deep infiltrating endometriosis into account, the ENZIAN score was introduced. The ENZIAN classification supplements the revised American Fertility Society (AFS) score with regard to the description of deep infiltrating endometriosis, retroperitoneal structures, and other organs. The null hypothesis was that classifying a lesion by the revised AFS as well as the ENZIAN system is not meaningful, because the two systems express different locations.

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