Мета огляду: оцінити сучасні підходи застосування прогестагенів для лікування ендометріозу, використовуючи літературні джерела; надати приклади їх ефективності у світовій та власній практиках.
Endometriosis is a gynecological disease that occurs in 5–10% of women of reproductive age and in 25-30% of women with infertility, in which hormonally reactive endometrial cells grow outside the inner walls of the uterus [1]. The most common is the genital form of endometriosis - 92–95% of cases. The extragenital form of endometriosis occurs in 6-8% of patients [2]. Clinical manifestations of the disease are pain of varying severity (secondary dysmenorrhea, deep dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain) and tubal infertility. Along with this, the disease has an asymptomatic course in 15–20% of women [3]. Today, the main types of endometriosis treat-ment are conservative (hormone therapy), surgical, and their combination [4]. Hormone therapy is the most common method of treating endometriosis [5]. Its purpose is to block menstruation, causing a state of iatrogenic menopause, or pseudopregnancy. Modern hormone therapy does not cure the disease permanently, but it can control pain symptoms, prevent or postpone surgical treatment, and control the course of the disease for a long time [6]. Today, progestins are the first line of hormone therapy for endometriosis [7]. Progestins are progestogens that act on progesterone receptors, reduce the secretion of folliclestimulating and luteinizing hormones, causing anovulation, a state of relative hypoestrogen and amenorrhea, which suppress endometri-osis and reduce dysmenorrhea. In addition, they have an antiestrogenic effect, causing pseudodecidualization of the endometrium, which suppresses the inflammatory reaction in endometriosis [8]. Such progestins are most often used in the treatment of endometriosis: dienogest, norethindrone acetate and medroxyprogesterone acetate, desogestrel. Progestins are the first choice for the treatment of endometriosis, given their high efficacy, good tolerability, and low frequency of disease recurrence [9, 10]. Objective of the review: to evaluate modern approaches to the use of progestogens for the treatment of endometriosis, using literature sources, to provide examples of their effectiveness in global and own clinical practices.