Increasing Duration of Fertility in Women With Endometriosis

Abstract

Introduction: Infertility is one of the common clinical symptoms in women with endometriosis. Limited ways to diagnose endometriosis, symptoms of endometriosis considered normal and overlap with other diseases that cause delaying treatment that increase the duration of infertility. This study purpose to analyze the differences in duration of infertility to women with endometriosis and without endometriosis. Method: This study is observational analytical research with retrospective case-control designed by looking at medical records in Fertility Clinic Graha Amerta RSUD Dr. Soetomo Surabaya. Total samples in this research are 50 women with infertility, it is divided into 25 people with endometriosis and 25 people without endometriosis. In the medical records, we can see the duration of infertility in each sample. Results: The duration of infertility >3 years occurs in women with and without endometriosis (72% and 80%). In bivariate analysis using the chi-square test, there was no difference that showed increasing duration of infertility (P = 0.508) between women with endometriosis and without endometriosis. Conclusion: There was no differences in the duration of female infertility with endometriosis and without endometriosis

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“…Sebuah studi retrospektif telah dilakukan untuk membandingkan pasien endometriosis dengan kelompok kontrol, dan ditemukan bahwa gejala-gejala seperti infertilitas memiliki odd ratio sebesar 8,2, dismenorea sebesar 8,1, dan dispareunia sebesar 6,8) Secara keseluruhan, belum ada bukti yang lengkap untuk gejala-gejala yang dapat secara pasti menunjukkan adanya endometriosis, tetapi beberapa gejala berikut dapat dianggap sebagai faktor risiko terjadinya endometriosis, seperti nyeri abdominopelvik, dismenorea, infertilitas, dispareunia, perdarahan setelah berhubungan seksual, riwayat kista endometriosis sebelumnya, dan penyakit inflamasi panggul. Semakin banyak gejala yang dialami, maka kemungkinan adanya endometriosis juga semakin tinggi (Nengsih et al, 2021).…”