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. 2021 Apr 15;13(4):2399-2409.
eCollection 2021.

Clinical factors influencing the pregnancy outcome after laparoscopic treatment in endometriosis-associated infertility patients: a retrospective study

Namita Sindan  1   2 , Adheesh Bhandari  3 , Namrata Sindan  4 , Rajan Kc  5 , Erjie Xia  3 , Yue Lin  6
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Clinical factors influencing the pregnancy outcome after laparoscopic treatment in endometriosis-associated infertility patients: a retrospective study

Namita Sindan et al. Am J Transl Res. .

Abstract

Introduction: Endometriosis is an illness caused by the presence of foci of endometrial implants outside the uterine cavity. Laparoscopy (minimally invasive surgical method) is considered as the definitive treatment for Endometriosis.

Method: Clinical data from January 2014 till December 2018, between the ages of 20 and 40 years were collected. A total of 175 women with pelvic Endometriosis complicated with infertility, underwent laparoscopy in our hospital, were followed up to assess fertility outcome. We analyzed using univariate logistic regression analysis as well as multivariate logistic analysis.

Results: We analyzed the relationship between them by logistic regression analysis. Univariate logistic regression analysis indicated that the significant factors for influencing pregnancy were the following factors: age, infertility types: primary or secondary infertility, treatment with Gonadotrophin Releasing Hormone-agonist, r-AFS grade, operative method: excision or ablation. And multivariate logistic regression using all the factors also revealed that age, infertility types: primary or secondary, treatment with GnRH-a, revised- American Fertility Society grading and operative method: excision or ablation were positively correlated and were the significant factors to influence pregnancy outcome. While the other factors such as Body Mass Index, and endometriosis along with other gynecological pathology were not statistically significant.

Conclusions: In this study, we found out that age, infertility type, treatment with Laparoscopy surgery, use of GnRH-a after the operation, grading of the disease, and different types of operative methods were found to be significant and were found to be the factors which influenced the pregnancy outcome.

Keywords: Endometriosis; affecting factors; infertility; laparoscopy.

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Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) curve showing the best cut-off value of Age was 26.15 (sensitivity 65%, specificity 77.9%).
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