Endometriosis: to treat or not to treat and if to treat what to treat with?
It describes the pathogenesis of endomethriosis, and underlines that common mechanisms for all its forms are disbalance of hypothalamus-hypophysis-ovarium axis and defects of immune mechanisms with immunosuppresion. In 75% of patients the diseases progresses during the first year, after the full complex treatment the frequency of relapses is 47%. It discusses the hormonal (combined oral contraceptives, progestagens, gonadotropin-relising hormone antagonists and other), nonhormonal methods of endomethriosis treatment and preventing of relapses in different disease variants in different women.

Keywords: gonadotropin-relising hormone antagonists, contraceptives, endomethrium, endomethriosis, progestagens