Clinical diagnosis of endometriosis: a call to action

Endometriosis can have a profound impact on women ’s lives, including associated pain, infertility, decreased quality of life, and interference with daily life, relationships, and livelihood. The first step in alleviating these adverse sequelae is to diagnose the underlying condition. For many women, the journey to endometriosis diagnosis is long and fraught with barriers and misdiagnoses. Inherent challenges include a gold standard based on an invasive surgical procedure (laparoscopy) and diverse symptomatology, contributing to the well-established delay of 4 to 11 years from first symptom onset to surgical diagnosis.

Source: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology - January 6, 2019 Category: OBGYN Authors: Sanjay K. Agarwal, Charles Chapron, Linda C. Giudice, Marc R. Laufer, Nicholas Leyland, Stacey A. Missmer, Sukhbir S. Singh, Hugh S. Taylor Tags: Call to Action Source Type: research