new treatment reportedly reduces inflammation

Endometriosis is a inflammatory gynecological disease which leads to sharp pains, especially because the endometrium grows outside the uterine lining. To date, there is no treatment that can cure this pathology, which is also responsible for excessive bleeding during menstruation and infertility.

What solutions?

Currently, women withendometriosis can be relieved by different treatments: pill or hormonal IUD, pain medicationand when the pain is too strong and disabling, by a intervention chirurgicale consisting of removing endometriosis lesions that may be lodged in the vagina, rectum, ureters, etc.

A monthly injection treatment

Japanese scientists* have tested a treatment, for the time being on monkeys. The latter consisted of their inject subcutaneouslyonce a month, antibodies from genes involved in inflammation of the disease. This treatment made it possible to reduce inflammationthe size of lesionsTHE fibrous and the adhesions. Baptized AMY109, the research carried out by Nishimoto-Kakiuchi and his colleges must continue and be refined according to…

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