Are you aware lung endometriosis is a rare GYN disease? It can lead to Catamenial Pneumothorax=lung collapse.

April 23, 2009 | By admin In Respiratory Diseases |
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The disease has several names, extrapelvic, pulmonary and thoracic endometriosis.

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7 Comments so far

  1. celebrity on April 24th, 2009

    no i wasnt aware and uni freek, i DONT GIVE A FCUK to b onist with u, thanks anyway bye

  2. IslandFun on April 27th, 2009

    I had a surgery for endometriosis. It was bad. Never want to go through that again.

  3. snakebread on April 28th, 2009

    That’s really cool info. I didn’t know the endometriosis could grow so far north.

  4. Buzz s on May 2nd, 2009

    I dont recall hearing about that in school.

  5. TexasSweetie on May 3rd, 2009

    Nice try! I don’t think the lung has an endometrial lining goofus. It is a pleural lining and lung collapse is atelectasis. Pneumothorax is air between the thorax and pleural space.

  6. Endo on May 6th, 2009

    TexasSweetie – No need for “goofus” comments and name calling. Endometriosis is, by its very nature, the presence of ectopic endometrial glands and stroma implanted elsewhere, including in the pleural cavity. Endometriosis in the diaphragm area can and DOES cause a woman’s lung to collapse during her menses, period (no pun intended). This is a well documented manifestation of the disease and happens more often than you would think.

  7. Melissa on December 28th, 2010

    I’ve been coughing up blood for 13 years and last October my lung collapsed. So it can happen and it’s a horrible disease.

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