TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cezar, Christina
A1  - Schweppe, Karl-Werner
A1  - Pletzer, K. R.
A1  - Becker, Sven
A1  - Krentel, Harald
A1  - Torres-de la Roche, Luz Angela
A1  - Wilde, Rudy Leon de
T1  - The cost-effective, but forgotten, medical endometriosis therapy : a prospective, quasi-randomized study on progestin therapy
T2  - Facts, views & vision in obgyn
N2  - Endometriosis represents nowadays a real burden for the patients as well as for the physicians, as it requires surgical and/or medical treatment, often long – termed and repeated. Moreover, the high costs necessary to diagnose and treat endometriosis represent a real economic burden, being comparable to other chronic diseases like diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore, the physicians dealing with this disease should take into account not only the efficacy of the treatment, but also the economic aspects and patients compliance.
The present paper analyses the efficiency of progestins (lynestrenol and medrogestone) in endometriosis as a cost – effective, but forgotten medical therapy of the disease. Our study underlines the good tolerability of progestins, as they have limited side effects, the compliance of patients being high. They are also low-cost medications, which could represent an effective alternative method in the endometriosis treatment, especially in less – developed countries that cannot afford the higher therapeutic costs.
KW  - cost-effective
KW  - endometriosis
KW  - progestin
KW  - low-cost medication
KW  - compliance
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50826
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-508268
UR  - http://www.fvvo.be/assets/742/FVVinObGyn-10-181.pdf
SN  - 2032-0418
N1  - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
VL  - 10
IS  - 4
SP  - 181
EP  - 190
PB  - Universa Press
CY  - Wetteren
ER  -