Megan S. Orlando

INTRODUCTION: Historically, endometriosis has been described as a disease of White, middle-class women. Early data from the 1970s show that 40% of Black patients with laparoscopically confirmed endometriosis had been incorrectly diagnosed w…

Endometriosis is a chronic disease that is characterized by pain, infertility, and reduced quality of life. Despite varied treatment modalities, a high proportion of individuals experience debilitating symptoms and develop comorbid pain con…

OBJECTIVE: To systematically review predictors associated with persistent pain after hysterectomy performed for individuals with chronic pelvic pain. DATA SOURCES: PubMed and EMBASE were queried from inception to July 2, 2024, searching fo…

Definitive diagnosis of endometriosis is established by histologic confirmation in tissue from surgically visualized lesions; however, the diagnostic sensitivity of this approach varies widely. We hypothesized that incomplete tissue block s…

OBJECTIVE: No consensus currently exists regarding patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) instruments. This structured review was conducted to identify the PROMs used by randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluated surgical treatment…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the perioperative outcomes of premenopausal women undergoing cystectomy or oophorectomy for ovarian endometriomas (OMAs) and other benign neoplasms. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Clinical database con…

BACKGROUND: Despite an estimated 10% prevalence of endometriosis among reproductive-age women, surgical population-based data are limited. OBJECTIVE: We sought to investigate racial and ethnic disparities in surgical interventions and comp…

BACKGROUND: The lifetime risk of ovarian cancer is 1.9% among women with endometriosis compared with 1.3% among the general population. When an asymptomatic endometrioma is incidentally discovered on imaging, gynecologists must weigh the pr…

OBJECTIVE: To review causes of pelvic pain among adolescents and discuss surgical techniques for safe and effective resection of juvenile cystic adenomyomas. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: Academic medical center. PATIENTS: We present a 1…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Learning to evaluate and treat chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is an established curriculum objective within the Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery (FMIGS). Our aim was to investigate current educational experie…

Endometriosis affects 2%–10% of reproductive-aged women and is one of the leading causes of chronic pelvic pain. Given the extensive diagnostic challenges, multi-system nature of the disease, and significant impacts on quality of life, ther…