title: Treatment of colonic endometriosis with a gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist and pregnancy after human menopausal gonadotropin/intrauterine insemination. A case report.
abstract: A woman with longstanding primary infertility and progressive, symptomatic rectal endometriosis was treated with daily leuprolide acetate for nine months. All bowel symptoms subsided. The patient was treated with human menopausal gonadotropin and intrauterine insemination prior to discontinuation of the leuprolide acetate, resulting in a twin pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, North Shore University Hospital, Cornell University Medical College, Manhasset, NY 11030.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Rosenfeld
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000188:drug therapy*; D007316:Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous; D016729:Leuprolide / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008596:Menotropins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012002:Rectal Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D008596:Menotropins; D016729:Leuprolide