In premenopausal women, triptorelin pretreatment was linked to longer myomectomy surgery than no pretreatment.
In plain wordsIn premenopausal women, triptorelin pretreatment was linked to longer surgery than no pretreatment.
- Outcome
- IncreaseSurgical time
- Study
n = 80
- Comparator
- No pretreatment
- Outcome group
- Sex hormones and fertility · Reproductive and sexual health
- Studied dose
- 3.75 mg · intramuscular · 2 monthsAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Surgical time
- 57.65 min
- triptorelin pretreatment
- Surgical time
- 40 min
- no pretreatment
Source sentences
Surgical time of the pretreated patients (group B) was significantly longer than that of untreated patients (group A 40 +/- 18.06 versus group B 57.65 +/- 29.61 min; P = 0.002).
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Data were collected from 80 consecutive resectoscopic myomectomies performed on premenopausal women.
Forty-two patients (52.5%) had not received any preoperative medical treatment and in their case surgery was performed during the early proliferative phase (group A), whereas 38 patients (47.5%) had been treated with 2 months of intramuscular GnRH analog (triptorelin, Decapeptyl 3.75 mg) (group B).