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PREVALENZA DELL’ENDOMETRIOSI. Massimo Luerti U.O. di Ostetricia Ginecologia 1 A.O. della Provincia di Lodi massimo.luerti@ao.lodi.it. Unità Operativa di OSTETRICIA E GINECOLOGIA 1 . PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE OF ENDOMETRIOSIS. PREVALENCE INCIDENCE.
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PREVALENZA DELL’ENDOMETRIOSI Massimo Luerti U.O. di Ostetricia Ginecologia 1 A.O. della Provincia di Lodi massimo.luerti@ao.lodi.it Unità Operativa di OSTETRICIA E GINECOLOGIA 1
PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE OF ENDOMETRIOSIS • PREVALENCE • INCIDENCE the number of people who currently have the condition Incidence the annual number of people who have a case of the condition
GENERAL PROBLEMS WITH DATA • Unclear sources • Data ranges • Different definitions of prevalence • Different sources • Different study methodologies • Different disease categories • Different years • Different locations • Different age groups • Different racial factors • Inherent reporting bias • Country-specific information
PROBLEMS WITH PREVALENCE DATA • Diagnosed versus undiagnosed prevalence • Different methods of gathering prevalence data • Prevalence and "cured" or "remission" conditions
PROBLEMS WITH ENDOMETRIOSISPREVALENCE • Need for a surgical diagnosis • Atypical endometriosis • Pelvic and extrapelvic localizations • Histologic confirmation • Racial factors • Infertility • Pain
ENDOMETRIOSISNeed for a surgical diagnosis The only reliable way of determining its presence is through surgery or at autopsy. Surgical incidence is biased by the selection process bringing the patient to the operating room. No large cadaver study examining autopsy specimens for endometriosis has reported data that has been widely accepted. Eric Daiter, M.D
Atypical endometriosis lesione tipica:Nodulo nero Lesione a chiazza giallo-bruno Lesione cicatriziale bianca lesione atipica: Lesioni rosse a fiamma Escrescenze ghiandolari Opacizzazioni bianche peritoneali Petecchie peritoneali Aree di ipervascolarizzazione Aderenze sotto ovariche Aree giallo brunastre Chiazze peritoneali giallastre Difetti peritoneali
PELVIC AND EXTRAPELVIC LOCALIZATIONS • ovaie • legamenti utero-sacrali • cul-de-sac • peritoneo della pelvi • setto retto-vaginale • intestino, retto e appendice • cicatrici laparotomiche • vescica • vagina • polmone, linfonodi, pleura, cuore, osso
PELVIC AND EXTRAPELVIC LOCALIZATIONS • Typical age range at diagnosis 20-40 years • About 10% of the cases in women under the age of 20 • 2-4% of postmenopausal women • In 60% of the cases, ectopic implants in the cul-de-sac and/or the uterosacral ligaments • In 50% of the cases the ovaries are involved • In 15% of the cases the bladder is involved • In 10% of the cases fallopian tubes are involved • Extrapelvic endometriosis without genital tract implants is rare and occurs in less than 8% of cases • Up to 20% of patients may experience endometriosis that affects the bowel, rectum, appendix, or ureter if they have pelvic endometriosis • Extra-abdominal endometriosis is rare K.W. Schweppe, 1988
ENDOMETRIOSISHistologic confirmation La conferma istologica varia dal 3% al 100% Peritoneo macroscopicamente normale può risultare sede di microfocolai di endometriosi nel 15-25% dei casi
Racial factors Unique ultra-orthodox Jewish population • over the past 20 years 1,434 hysterectomy specimens reviewed • incidence of adenomyosis among the hysterectomy specimens decreased from 15.14% in the first 10 years to 9.24% in the second decade (p < 0.05) • the incidence of endometriosis remained unchanged, and was very low (1.12%) compared to published data. Effects of heredity, religious and social behavior on the prevalence of endometriosisBocker J, Tadmor OP, Gal M, Diamant YZ, Asia Oceania J Obstet Gynaecol. 1994 Jun;20(2):125-9.
Racial factorsExtrapolation of Prevalence Rate of Endometriosis to Countries and Regions The following table attempts to extrapolate the above prevalence rate for Endometriosis to the populations of various countries and regions. As discussed above, these prevalence extrapolations for Endometriosis are only estimates and may have limited relevance to the actual prevalence of Endometriosis in any region
Incidenza della endometriosi nella sterilita’ ed infertilita’: risultati del Centro di Sterilita’ di Reggio Emilia in 1011 donne sottoposte a laparoscopia di bilancio per sterilità o infertilità * INFERTILITY L’incidenzadell’endometriosi è più elevata nelle donne con sterilità rispetto alle donne fertili. • * Donne infertili con sospetto di utero setto o bicorne • ** Riferita alle 1011 donne sterili o infertili sottoposte a laparoscopia • *** Riferita al totale delle 377 donne con endometriosi
INFERTILITYLAPAROSCOPIA DIAGNOSTICA ed INFERTILITA’Rilievo Laparoscopico
INFERTILITYLAPAROSCOPIA DIAGNOSTICA ed INFERTILITA’Riscontro Laparoscopico nella sterilità inspiegata Alterazioni tubariche (34%) Occl. tubarica monolat. (20%) Occl. bil. (12%)
PAIN DOLORE PELVICO CRONICO (CPP) 1300 donne sottoposte a LPS per CPP nessuna lesione 40% endometriosi 28% aderenze 25% Howard, 1993
Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics and GynaecologyVol. 18, No. 2, pp. 177–200, 2004 • Differences in the prevalence of the disease vary by as much as 30–40times. • Differences inthe indications for laparoscopy and laparotomy • Differing degreesof attention paid by surgeons to the accurate identification of endometriotic lesionsand by selective mechanisms drawing patients with suspected endometriosistowards specialized centres. • There are no published studieson representative samples of the general population. • It is difficultto compare estimates of prevalence because the published studies includewomen with different conditions, and are conducted in centres that applydifferent diagnostic criteria and exhibit different levels of clinical interest inendometriosis.
ENDOMETRIOSIS: INCIDENCE RATES The "Public testimony to the US Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, Subcommittee on Aging“report in 1993: about 5 million women in the USA are affected byendometriosis. Widely used numbers for the incidence of endometriosis include 3-10% of all reproductive age women and 25-40% of all women with an infertility problem. Eric Daiter, M.D
Animal Studies in Endometriosis: A ReviewLisa Story and Stephen KennedyILAR Journal, Volume 45, Number 2 2004 The exact prevalence of endometriosis in the population cannot be ascertained because of the need to perform an invasive procedure to determine who is affected. Nevertheless, estimates range from 2 to 22% in asymptomatic women, 40 to 60% in women with dysmenorrhea, and 20 to 30% in women being investigated for subfertility (Farquhar 2000).
Human Reproduction, Vol. 17, No. 6, 1415-1423, June 2002What makes a good case–control study? Design issues for complex traits such as endometriosis Krina T. Zondervan1,3, Lon R. Cardon1 and Stephen H. Kennedy • Because of the need for a surgical diagnosis, the prevalenceof endometriosis in the general population is unknown. Estimatesfrom asymptomatic fertile subpopulations undergoing tubal ligationhave varied greatly, from 0.7 to 43% around a mean of 4% (Eskenaziand Warner, 1997). However, up to 90% of these women were diagnosedwith minimal or mild endometriosis.
Prevalence and Incidence of Endometriosis The National Women’s Health Information Center, NICH, NIH: 10 to 20 percent of American women of childbearing age have endometriosis; up to 2 million women in the UK. The National Women’s Health Information Center, Bioscience: approx 1 in 20 or 5.00% or 13.6 million people in USA ()
PREVALENZA DI ENDOMETRIOSI SECONDO INTERVENTO E DIAGNOSI U.O. Ostetricia Ginecologia 1 – A.O. della Provincia di Lodi, 2005
PREVALENCE OF ENDOMETRIOSIS Female population unknown In gynecological laparotomies 1-50% In gynecological laparoscopies 5-53% In infertile women 15-24% In unexplained infertility 70-80% In female population (estimated) 2% In laparoscopic sterilization 2-4% K.W. Schweppe, 1988
ENDOMETRIOSI NELLE ADOLESCENTI L’incidenza di endometriosi nelle adolescenti è tuttora sconosciuta. • Vercellini (1989) 38% • Reese (1996) 73%
10% of women in the reproductive age group have endometriosis • 30-50% of infertile women have endometriosis • Occurs primarily in women in their 20's and 30's • Once thought that middle-class, white patients who are high achievers and perfectionists were at higher risk Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 1997
ESTIMATED PREVALENCE OF ENDOMETRIOSIS: REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Diagnostic procedure Author and year % Sterilization Strathy (1982) 2 Kirshon (1989) 7 Drake (1980) 5 Kresch (1984) 15 Liu (1986) 43 Moen (1991) 19 Mahmood (1991) 19 Laparoscopy for infertility Drake (1980) 48 Mahmood (1991) 21 Hasson (1976) 23 Laparoscopy for pelvic pain Kresch (1984) 32 Mahmood (1991) 15 Hasson (1976) 12 Haleh Sangi-Haghpeykar, Alfred N. Poindexter III Obstet Gynecol 1995;85:983-92
Eric Daiter, M.DEndometriosis: incidence rates The literature on the prevalence of endometriosis in selected groups of women suggest a 2% rate for those undergoing elective tubal sterilization, an 8-12% rate for those undergoing hysterectomy, a 30% rate for those undergoing operative laparoscopy and a 55% rate for teenagers undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy for pelvic pain. In 1987, the "National Center for Health Statistics" report on hysterectomies performed in the USA between 1965 and 1984 described about 2 million US women with a diagnosis of endometriosis who had a hysterectomy. An interesting finding from this report was that the number of women with endometriosis having a hysterectomy increased steadily throughout the target time period, with less than 150,000 women in 1965-67 and greater than 350,000 women in 1982-84. This increase was not fully accounted for by an increase in hysterectomies in general and occurred during a time when increasingly conservative management for endometriosis became popular. Therefore, the increase may reflect an increase in the incidence or severity of endometriosis in the USA.
Trattamento chirurgico della sterilità associata a endometriosi I-II stadio
Trattamento chirurgico della sterilità associata a endometriosi III-IV stadio
endometriosi L’incidenza della endometriosi nella polazione femminile in età fertile, varia tra il 7 e 10%.
endometriosi infiltrante del cul-de-sac anteriore • l’1% delle donne affette da endometriosi presentano lesioni del tratto urinario, l’84% delle quali coinvolgono la vescica
endometriosi infiltrante del cul-de-sac anteriore • due forme distinte di endometriosi del detrusore: • spontanea • contemporanea presenza di patologia più generalizzata • il nodulo ha origine nella cupola vescicale • iatrogena • disseminazione intraoperatoria in corso di taglio cesareo
endometriosi infiltrante ureterale • rara (tra 0.01% e 0.6%) • origina dall’estensione di un impianto pelvico peritoneale lungo la faccia laterale gonadica e la fossetta ovarica • spesso coesiste una endometriosi ovarica • lesioni ostruttive del terzo distale, pressoché esclusive sul lato sinistro (50% - fossetta ovarica, 50% legamento utero-sacrale) • intrinseca: tessuto endometriosico nell’ambito di una muscularis iperplastica e fibrotica • estrinseca: restringimento del lume da compressione e/o fibrosi
L’ENDOMETRIOSI PROFONDA Definizione : lesione profonda >= 5 mm. 11-16 % dei casi di endometriosi presenta localizzazioni profonde, di cui: 55 % Douglas 35 % leg. utero-sacrali 11% setto retto-vaginale 5 % retto-sigma 2-4 % vie urinarie ( 25-30 % rene escluso !)
INCIDENZA ENDOMETRIOSI MINIMA-LIEVE 7-10% nella popolazione generale 20-70 % nelle pazienti infertili 70-80% nelle pazienti con dolore pelvico cronico 40% donne asintomatiche
PREVALENZA DI ENDOMETRIOSI IN DONNE SOTTOPOSTE AD INTERVENTO (Parazzini, 1994) DIAGNOSI 95% confidence Sterilità 30 26-35 Dolore pelvico 45 39-52 Fibromi 12 10-14 Cisti ovarica 35 31-40
L’ ENDOMETRIOSI PROFONDA Chirurgia del setto retto-vaginale : quando intervenire - sintomi presenti ( dispareunia, dismenorrea) - massa pelvica da definire - infertilità Indagini diagnostiche : eco transrettale, RMN Tecnica : isolamento del nodulo a partire dal connettivo lasso extraperitoneale procedendo in senso centripeto verso la lesione - se lesione è molto laterale : tecnica di Hudson per il cancro infiltrante - eventuale resezione vaginale se coinvolta la mucosa vaginale
L’ ENDOMETRIOSI PROFONDA Chirurgia del retto-sigma : quando intervenire - se lesione sintomatica : dischezia, dispareunia, sindrome subocclusiva ( 30 % asintomatica) - se sintomo algico : escissione di losanga parietale a mucosa integra - se sintomo meccanico : resezione intestinale con anastomosi T- T Ausili diagnostici : clisma opaco, rettosigmoidoscopia, RMN NB: lasciare isolata una piccola area di endometriosi rettale (malattia residua) non comporta un maggiore rischio di recidiva del sintomo NB: in caso di soluzione di continuo sutura laparoscopica in duplice strato NB: ricordare che è lesione benigna: ampi interventi demolitivi sul tubo digerente sono giustificati solo su casi molto selezionati
L’ENDOMETRIOSI PROFONDA Chirurgia delle vie urinarie : quando intervenire vescica (1%): lesione sintomatica ( dolore, disuria, stranguria, ematuria) NB: la lesione coinvolge sempre la tonaca muscolare tecnica : escissione possibilmente extramucosa con sutura in unico o duplice strato (muscolare-mucosa e sierosa) uretere (1%): coinvolto quasi sempre ab estrinseco la lesione va sempre trattata ( valutare rene escluso) tecnica : ureterolisi ureteroureterostomia ureteroneocistostomia
Il trattamento dell’endometriosi lieve Familiarità Le donne con una parente di I grado affetta da endometriosi hanno un rischio aumentato da 6 a 10 volte di ammalarsi
Animal Studies in Endometriosis: A ReviewLisa Story and Stephen KennedyILAR Journal, Volume 45, Number 2 2004 Risk factors associated with endometriosis include the following: increasing age within the reproductive years, greater exposure to menstruation because of short cycle length, long duration of flow and reduced parity, and increased peripheral body fat associated with increased serum estrogen levels. Factors thought to decrease estrogen levels (e.g., exercise and smoking) show an inverse relation with the disease (Eskenazi and Warner 1997).
Apartfrom generally consistent associations with increasing age andprolonged menstruation, other findings such as for smoking,exercise, body mass index, parity and tampon use were eitherinconsistent or simply not tested in more than one study (Eskenaziand Warner, 1997