OBJECTIVE: To estimate the empirical relationship between the revised American Society for Reproductive Medicine's classification of endometriosis and pregnancy rates after treatment. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis. PATIENT(S): Patients seen by four practicing physicians. INTERVENTION(S): Medical and/or surgical therapy for endometriosis. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Pregnancy defined as ongoing or delivered. RESULT(S): There were no significant differences in pregnancy rates across stages of endometriosis. There was a slight decline in pregnancy rates among patients with Stage IV endometriosis, but statistical significance was not achieved. CONCLUSION(S): The use of an arbitrary weighted system for assigning scores to individual categories of disease, or for computing a total score, has limited the overall effectiveness of the classification system to predict pregnancy.
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the empirical relationship between the revised American Society for Reproductive Medicine's classification of endometriosis and pregnancy rates after treatment. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis. PATIENT(S): Patients seen by four practicing physicians. INTERVENTION(S): Medical and/or surgical therapy for endometriosis. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Pregnancy defined as ongoing or delivered. RESULT(S): There were no significant differences in pregnancy rates across stages of endometriosis. There was a slight decline in pregnancy rates among patients with Stage IV endometriosis, but statistical significance was not achieved. CONCLUSION(S): The use of an arbitrary weighted system for assigning scores to individual categories of disease, or for computing a total score, has limited the overall effectiveness of the classification system to predict pregnancy.
Authors: U Ulrich; O Buchweitz; R Greb; J Keckstein; I von Leffern; P Oppelt; S P Renner; M Sillem; W Stummvoll; R-L De Wilde; K-W Schweppe Journal: Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd Date: 2014-12 Impact factor: 2.915
Authors: U Ulrich; O Buchweitz; R Greb; J Keckstein; I von Leffern; P Oppelt; S P Renner; M Sillem; W Stummvoll; K-W Schweppe Journal: Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd Date: 2013-09 Impact factor: 2.915
Authors: Vicki Nisenblat; Patrick M M Bossuyt; Rabia Shaikh; Cindy Farquhar; Vanessa Jordan; Carola S Scheffers; Ben Willem J Mol; Neil Johnson; M Louise Hull Journal: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Date: 2016-05-01
Authors: Devashana Gupta; M Louise Hull; Ian Fraser; Laura Miller; Patrick M M Bossuyt; Neil Johnson; Vicki Nisenblat Journal: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Date: 2016-04-20