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Painful Love: Superficial Dyspareunia and Three Dimensional Transperineal Ultrasound Evaluation of Pelvic Floor Muscle in Women with Endometriosis

2019; Routledge; Volume: 46; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/0092623x.2019.1676852

1521-0715

Mohamed Mabrouk, Simona Del Forno, Alessandra Spezzano, Diego Raimondo, Alessandro Arena, Margherita Zanello, Deborah Leonardi, Roberto Paradisi, Renato Seracchioli,

Pregnancy-related medical research

We conducted an observational study between March 2015 and March 2018 in our academic center. Symptomatic, sexually active women with clinical and sonographic diagnosis of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) or isolated ovarian endometriosis were enrolled. Women were asked to rank endometriosis-related symptoms, especially superficial and deep dyspareunia. Moreover, 3D transperineal ultrasound was performed to assess the levator hiatus area (LHA) evaluating pelvic floor muscle (PFM) morphometry. Women with endometriosis seem to have a high prevalence of superficial dyspareunia and three-dimensional transperineal ultrasound seems to be a viable technique to assess PFM morphometry in these women.