Does Sexual Function and Quality of Life Improve after Medical Therapy in Women with Endometriosis? A Single-Institution Retrospective Analysis.
Anna BiasioliSilvia ZermanoFrancesca PreviteraMartina ArcieriMonica Della MartinaDiego RaimondoAntonio RaffoneStefano RestainoGiuseppe VizzielliLorenza DriulPublished in: Journal of personalized medicine (2023)
We can state that hormone therapy alone is not sufficient to achieve an improvement in the patient's quality of life and sexual function. Emerging evidence suggests that most of these patients showed a central sensibilization phenomenon characterized by an amplification of the response to a peripheral and/or neuropathic nociceptive trigger, which is expressed by hyperalgesia and allodynia. For this reason, in these patients, it is better to adopt a multimodal and multidisciplinary approach, including other professional figures, that acts on pain and also intervenes in all those conditions that contribute to worsening quality of life.