“These reproductive health problems might be increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke.” Researchers found that “women with one or more gynecological disorders had higher risk of heart disease and clogged arteries affecting either their heart or brain health,” with the risk “highest among women with endometriosis or polycystic ovary syndrome.”
There is more to endometriosis than simply pain and infertility. The underlying pathology is dramatic peritoneal inflammation. Inflammation has been closely linked to cardiovascular disease and stroke. The findings in this study from Heart, are completely expected given the underlying inflammatory nature of endometriosis. Excisional Surgery can cure Endometriosis and reverse the dramatic inflammatory state associated.
There has been great resistance to surgery in lieu of medical treatment for the disease which is neither reduces disease or disease progression with pain reduction being the only benefit. These expensive drugs have been pushed into the system by drug makers. The only CURE for this disease process is laparoscopic peritoneal excision – not ablation. Unfortunately due to many converging events early in laparoscopy, ablation was adopted and made the standard laparoscopic treatment for endometriosis. This happened without any studies comparing the efficacy of this new approach against the former gold standard of Excision with “open surgery” (large insicision), utilized for 75 years leading up to the advent of laparoscopy. Thus generations of gynecologists now believe that ablation is the appropriate technique and that endometriosis is not curable. This set back in treatment outcomes, came with the advent of a new technology, one that has offered immense benefits in other areas. This is one of the few examples where new technologies have not improved outcomes in medicine.
