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| Rodolphe
Maheux Award 2008 - a team effort! |
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Dr
Joas Dias receives the
Rodolphe Maheux Award from
WES President Professor Hans Evers
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The
Rodolphe Maheux Award has been instigated to honour
a promising, young clinician in the field of endometriosis.
In the spirit of Professor Maheux:
the first award was presented in recognition of
a team effort!
Lead authors Joas Dias and Sergio
Podgaec presented their paper on:
"Time
elapsed between the onset of symptoms and the
diagnosis of deeply infiltrating endometriosis"
This paper
was selected as one of the key abstracts for the
clinical plenary session on "Diagnosis of
endometriosis". |
Deeply infiltrating endometriosis is related
to more intense complaints of symptoms, but
it is not possible to assert if this type of
disease is an evolution of superficial endometriosis
or whether it is a particular phenotype of the
disease. In their study, the team from Sao Paulo
compared the time elapsed between the onset
of symptoms and the diagnosis of endometriosis
according to the depth of the lesions.
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Between 1996 and 2006, 690 patients were fully
evaluated and submitted to surgery in the department
of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Taking potential bias into
consideration, 293 were included, ie. women who
were undergoing their first endometriosis surgery.
They were then divided into two groups: with or
without deep endometriosis.
39.2% (115/293) of the women had deep endometriosis,
and the mean time elapsed between the onset of
symptoms and the diagnosis of endometriosis affecting
the rectum, bladder or ureter was 5.21 +/- 5.6
years. This was statistically different than among
women without deep endometriosis, where the mean
time to diagnosis was 3.9 +/- 4.7 years.
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The team from Sao Paulo:
Professor Mauricio Abrao with Drs
Joas Dias and Sergio Podgaec |
The team therefore concluded that women with
deep endometriosis affecting the rectum, bladder
or ureter have symptoms for longer until they
have a diagnosis and are treated, than those
women, who do not have these types of lesions.
Photos
courtesey of Michael McEvoy
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Highlights
from WCE2008
Scientific summaries
from WCE2008
Additional awards
presented at WCE2008
Next
World Congress on Endometriosis
Rodolphe Maheux
in Memoriam
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| The World Endometriosis Society |
The World
Endometriosis Society (WES) was founded in 1998
to promote the exchange of clinical experience,
scientific thought, and investigation among gynaecologists,
endocrinologists, scientists, biologists and other
qualified individuals interested in advancing
the field of endometriosis.
The WES is
a scientific Society with no link to the industry.
We fund our work from our membership dues and
from a share of the inscriptions from the World
Congresses on Endometriosis.
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