Active clinical trials for "Endometriosis"

This study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of an investigational medication compared with placebo in the treatment of pain associated with endometriosis.

Surgical treatment of deep endometriosis with bowel involvement is widely accepted to require complete excision of all endometriosis also when invading the bowel. In case of opening of the bowel a subsequent inflammatory reaction follows the surgery, as demonstrated by the increase in blood levels of C-reactive protein during the first post-operative week. Furthermore it increases the risk of post-operative bowel complications. In case of peritonitis the general surgeons use extensive lavage in order to decreases mortality, morbidity and post-operative adhesions formation, as demonstrated in animal models and clinically in patients with peritonitis. Considering the efficacy of extensive lavage for peritonitis and the inflammatory reaction as judged by the increased C-reactive protein (CRP) following full thickness deep endometriosis resection from the bowel, the study aims to evaluate, in women undergoing this procedure, the effect of extensive abdominal lavage on abdominal inflammation and post-operative bowel complications.

Identify effective doses of cetrorelix SR in the treatment of symptoms of endometriosis, describe dose effect relationship and duration of symptom relief

The objective of this study is to determine the long-term safety of asoprisnil 5 mg for 12 months in women with endometriosis from study M01-398.

The Specific Aim of this project is to compare the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of continuous oral contraceptives versus leuprolide/norethindrone in the treatment of endometriosis-associated chronic pelvic pain. This comparison will be based on a randomized, double-blind, trial of women with chronic pelvic pain who have been diagnosed with endometriosis at the time of surgery within the last 3 years. We hypothesize that, over a 12-month period of postoperative treatment, the efficacy of oral contraceptives is no worse than leuprolide/norethindrone, and that treatment with oral contraceptives is more cost-effective.

To compare the effects of aerobic and core stability exercise training program on pain, sleep and quality of life in women with endometriosis.

Endometriosis (EMs) is one of the most prevalent benign gynaecological diseases, and it is an inflammatory oestrogen-dependent condition. Several authors have proposed that anatomical, genetic, endocrine, immunological, environmental, hormonal, and inflammatory factors may influence tissue implantation outside the uterus. An approach to EMs aetiology that involves defining a profile to the vaginal and gut microbiota, estrogenic activity, and exposure to xenoestrogens and also metabolic and nutritional status of women with EMs may help identify some important patterns to better characterize this disease and also to define more personalized nutritional strategies, also predicting patients' predisposition to therapy success. This is an observational study on premenopausal woman, diagnosed with EMs, who will be recruited on the outpatient gynaecology appointment, to evaluate the vaginal and intestinal microbiome, measure the total estrogenic activity, assess the metabolic biomarkers and the nutritional status.

Endometriosis is defined as the presence of hormone-dependent endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. It is a chronic, painful and often disabling pathology during the normal activities of daily life. It affects 10% of women of childbearing age. It is therefore a real public health issue. The latest recommendations from the HAS and the CNGOF now recommend primary medical management of endometriosis in painful women who do not wish to become pregnant. It should be remembered that until very recently, the teams resigned themselves to carrying out surgical interventions in order to support the diagnosis (this is histological and requires a biopsy) and to treat the patient if possible. Sometimes, this treatment was not possible from the outset, as the lesions appeared to be inaccessible, and additional hormonal treatment was therefore required. The current concept is to propose to patients a first hormonal suppressive treatment before a possible surgery. This therapeutic de-escalation should be considered in the light of the physiopathology of endometriosis, which is essentially based on the ovarian cycles, and indirectly on menstruation, which must then be suspended. However, a good number of patients are initially reluctant to undergo any kind of hormonal therapy, either because they have had a bad experience with hormonal contraception (intolerance) or because of a fear related to the possible complications of hormonal therapy with third or fourth generation pills, for example (thromboembolic risk). There is also a health alert at present concerning macro progestins in relation to the risk of meningioma. Acceptance of the principle of instituting amenorrhea in order to relieve patients suffering from endometriosis requires prior information. In investigator's daily practice, they frequently deplore non-compliance, which is detrimental to the proper management of the disease. The effectiveness of hormonal treatment, which will institute a quiescence of hormonal activity, is not immediate. An analgesic and anti-inflammatory treatment is then added. Investigators propose to compare the compliance of three drug strategies: analgesics alone, hormone therapy alone or hormone therapy and analgesics.

Comparison of quality of life before and after 14 days of use of Endo App® in endometriosis patients compared to non-users

Endometriosis is a benign gynecological disease characterized by uterine-like cells growing outside the uterus, leading to pain, infertility, and inflammation. Endometriosis most commonly occurs in the forms of Superficial Endometriosis (SE), Deep Endometriosis and Ovarian Endometriosis (Endometrioma) (OE). Ultrasound diagnosis of DE and OE has become more reliable with advances in ultrasound technology, technique and expertise, leading to decreased diagnosis time for patients and allowing for better optimization of surgeries if required. SE, however, lacks any reliable non-invasive diagnosis methods. SE is the most common form of endometriosis and is defined as a disease that lines the peritoneum and is small and superficial in nature, leading to chronic inflammation, infertility, and pain. SE is difficult to visualize on ultrasound due to its size and alignment with tissue, requiring fluid to expand the pelvis and partially suspend these small lesions, allowing them to be diagnosed through ultrasound. Leonardi et al. observed that in some patients, a physiologic change occurs whereby fluid fills the pouch of Douglas (POD), allowing increased visualizing during ultrasound. This led to the development of Saline-infused sonoPODgraphy (SPG), a novel method utilizing modified commonly used ultrasound techniques called saline-infusion sonohysterography (SIS) and hysterosalpingo-contrast-sonography (HyCoSy), to reliably visualize the POD (Leonardi et al, 2019). Visualizing the POD is important as SE is often deposited in the POD. This diagnostic accuracy pilot study aims to pioneer the technique whereby SPG will be evaluated as a novel, rapid, non-invasive diagnostic tool for SE. The injected fluid from the POD will be withdrawn and evaluated for novel biomarkers, allowing us to further develop rapid diagnostics and better understand disease mechanisms. We hypothesize that SPG will allow for the diagnosis of SE with a diagnostic accuracy parallel to the current invasive gold standard, laparoscopy.