Prospective Study of the Outcomes of the Surgical Treatment of Deeply Infiltrating Endometriosis

PaijatHame Central Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Endometriosis

Treatments: Procedure: Endometriosis surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01105897

ETLQ62/81

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to examine the incidence of deeply infiltrating endometriotic lesions among surgically treated endometriosis patients, and examine the impact of endometriosis, and its surgical treatment, on severity of pain symptoms, quality of life, and sexual functioning.

Full description

Patients scheduled for operation on suspected endometriosis in two study hospitals specialized in the surgical treatment of endometriosis between January 2005 - December 2007 (Päijät-Häme Central Hospital) and January 2008 - December 2008 (Helsinki University Hospital) were enrolled to the study. The diagnosis of endometriosis was histologically verified for all patients. Background data was collected from patients' age, body mass index, previous deliveries, previous endometriosis surgery, and current hormonal treatment for endometriosis.

From the beginning of January 2006 patients also completed preoperative questionnaires considering visual analogue scales (VAS) for pain symptoms (dysmenorrhea, deep dyspareunia, pain with urination and defecation, chronic pelvic pain, pain with ovulation), functional bowel and urinary symptoms, and 15D Quality of Life questionnaire, McCoy sexual functioning questionnaire, EHP-5 Short Form Endometriosis Profile questionnaire. Same questionnaires will also be completed six months, one year, two years, four years, and six years after the endometriosis operation. Follow-up questionnaires also contain questions concerning complications related to surgery, endometriosis recurrence, pregnancies, and infertility treatments.

Enrollment: 201 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Finnish speaking patients scheduled for operation on suspected endometriosis

Exclusion criteria

• Non-Finnish speaking patients
• Previous hysterectomy.
• Previous bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
• Any cancer
• Chronic inflammatory bowel or bladder disease
• Diabetes treated with insulin
• Rheumatoid arthritis.

Trial design

201 participants in 1 patient group

Surgically treated endometriosis patients

Description:

Women scheduled for operation on suspected endometriosis in two study hospitals specialized in the surgical treatment of endometriosis between January 2005 - December 2007 (Päijät-Häme Central Hospital) and January 2008 - December 2008 (Helsinki University Hospital).

Treatment:

Procedure: Endometriosis surgery