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Abstract Endometriosis can have several different presentations, including overt ascites and peritonitis; increased awareness can improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes. We aimto provide a systematic review and report a case of endometriosis with this unusual clinical presentation. The PubMed/MEDLINE database was systematically reviewed until October 2016. Women with histologically-proven endometriosis presenting with clinically significant ascites and/or frozen abdomen and/or encapsulating peritonitis were included; thosewith potentially confounding conditionswere excluded.Our search yielded 37 articles describing 42 women, all of reproductive age. Ascites was mostly hemorrhagic, recurrent and not predicted by cancer antigen 125 (CA-125) levels. In turn, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia and infertility were not consistently reported. The treatment choices and outcomes were different across the studies, and are described in detail. Endometriosis should be a differential diagnosis of massive hemorrhagic ascites in women of reproductive age.
Resumo A endometriose pode ter várias apresentações, incluindo ascite e peritonite, que são apresentações incomuns. O aumento da conscientização sobre essa doença podemelhorar a precisão diagnóstica e os resultados das pacientes. Nosso objetivo é fornecer uma revisão sistemática e relatar um caso de endometriose com esta apresentação clínica incomum. O banco de dados PubMed/MEDLINE foi revisado sistematicamente até outubro de 2016. Foram incluídas mulheres comendometriosedemonstrada histologicamente, compresença de ascite clinicamente significativa e/ou abdômen congelado e/ou peritonite encapsulante; foram excluídas aquelas com comorbidades que pudessem provocar confusão. A pesquisa selecionou 37 artigos que descrevem42mulheres, todas emidade reprodutiva. A ascite foi principalmente hemorrágica, recorrente, e não indicada pelos níveis de antígeno associado ao câncer 125 (AC-125). Por sua vez, a dismenorreia, a dispareunia e a infertilidade não foram relatadas de forma consistente. As escolhas e os resultados do tratamento foram diferentes entre os estudos, e são descritos em detalhes. A endometriose deveria ser um diagnóstico diferencial de ascite hemorrágica maciça em mulheres em idade reprodutiva.
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Humans , Female , Adult , Peritonitis/etiology , Ascites/etiology , Endometriosis/complications , Endometriosis/diagnosisABSTRACT
ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To analyze the costs of hysterectomies performed in Brazil due to benign conditions, and to assess its hospital admittance and mortality rates. METHODS A retrospective cohort was carried out from January 2010 to December 2014, analyzing all hysterectomies (n = 428,346) registered on the DATASUS database between January 2010 and December 2014. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire and analyzed using the SPSS 20.0 for Windows. RESULTS Hospital admissions were 300,231 for total abdominal hysterectomies, 46,056 for vaginal hysterectomies, 29,959 for subtotal abdominal hysterectomies and 1,522 for laparoscopic hysterectomies. Mortality rates were 0.26%, 0.09%, 0.07% and 0.05% for subtotal, total abdominal, laparoscopic, and vaginal hysterectomies, respectively. Among the procedures studied, total abdominal hysterectomies had the most costs (R$217,802,574.77), followed by vaginal hysterectomies (R$24,173,490.00), subtotal abdominal hysterectomies (R$19.253.300,00) and laparoscopic hysterectomies (R$794,680.40). CONCLUSIONS Total abdominal hysterectomies had the highest overall costs mainly because it was the most commonly performed technique. Mortality rates were greatest in subtotal abdominal hysterectomies; this, however, may be due to bias related to missing data in our database.