To clarify whether apoptosis is involved in endometriosis, we obtained eutopic endometrial tissues along with endometriotic tissues from the uterus (adenomyosis) (n = 12) and from the ovary (n = 12) from patients undergoing gynaecological s…
PURPOSE: To analyze the effects of glucocorticoid treatment for patients with abnormal autoimmunity on IVF-ET outcomes, low-dose predonisolone or dexamethasone was administered in 51 IVF-ET cycles of 41 patients with positive antinuclear an…
Through the collaboration of 22 institutions nationwide, a total of 1,185 cases of ovarian cancer treated between January, 1980 and December, 1987, were investigated as to their prognosis from the aspect of the chemotherapeutic effect. (1) …
Two protocols were scheduled for in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) in patients with various stages of endometriosis who were resistant to conventional therapies. In the ultralong protocol (21 patients), gonadotropin releas…
We studied the utility and limitations of CA 125 for the early diagnosis of recurrence of ovarian cancer and investigated whether the precision of diagnosis could be enhanced by combining CA 125 with other tumor markers. Of 181 patients wit…
Conservative surgery was used in the treatment of 95 infertile patients with endometriosis who desired to have a child; of these 95 patients, 44 (46.3%) became pregnant after treatment. We studied the postoperative pregnancy rate and the ex…