{"id":1244,"date":"2024-06-07T17:57:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/researchers-say-specialist-scanning-needed-to-help-endometriosis-patients\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T17:57:36","slug":"researchers-say-specialist-scanning-needed-to-help-endometriosis-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/researchers-say-specialist-scanning-needed-to-help-endometriosis-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers say specialist scanning needed to help endometriosis patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Polina Zimmerman from Pexels A review of existing research shows there is a growing benefit to using specialist scanning to diagnose endometriosis. The paper is published in the journal Fertility and Sterility. Endometriosis affects 1 in 9 women and those assigned female at birth. However, it takes 6.4 years to diagnose using the conventional standard of surgical laparoscopy. Standard transvaginal and external ultrasounds can be used as a step in the diagnosis process, but there&#8217;s a growing push for imaging to be used as a first tool for diagnosis. <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/researchers-say-specialist-scanning-needed-to-help-endometriosis-patients\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Polina Zimmerman from Pexels A review of existing research shows there is a growing benefit to using specialist scanning to diagnose endometriosis. The paper is published in the journal Fertility and Sterility. Endometriosis affects 1 in 9 women and those assigned female at birth. However, it takes 6.4 years to diagnose using the conventional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}