ENDOMETRIOSIS COMO CAUSA DE INFERTILIDAD EN MUJERES EN ETAPA FÉRTIL, QUE ACUDEN AL HOSPITAL MATERNO INFANTIL MATILDE HIDALGO DE PROCEL. ENERO 2016 – DICIEMBRE 2016.

Abstract

Endometriosis is a public health problem worldwide reaching affect women of childbearing age by 10-15%. This pathology is accompanied by dysmenorrhea, dispareusmia, hypermetrorrhagia, polymenorrhea, among others; becoming incapacitating, to be socially productive and affecting fertility in a certain group. Laparoscopy has become the diagnostic method with greater sensitivity and specificity allowing direct visualization of the lesions and affected area, and the taking of samples for anatomopathological studies. (1) (2) To be able to determine the number of cases of infertility secondary to endometriosis, in patients in fertile stage who attend the Matilde Hidalgo de Procel Maternity in January 2016; was our general objective, to identify the cases of endometriosis, infertility and their level of association between both pathologies. Getting to know part of the reality in our country to then achieve a positive change in the comprehensive management of these patients. By means of the data collection by technical file, a cross-sectional, retrospective, observational, non-experimental, descriptive, qualitative study was carried out; resulting in a population between 20 and 30 years of age, of 86 cases with endometriosis (15% of 473 patients), and about 17.4% with infertility secondary to endometriosis; That of Marcer in 2012, raises a figure between 15-30% worldwide. Proposing the realization of studies, programs and medical training for timely diagnosis and thus reduce the rate of side effects from this disease