Terhi Piltonen

ORCID: 0000-0002-9921-7300 · 19 papers in corpus · active 2007-2025

Study types

  • article 13
  • other 4
  • review 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 11
  • mesh:D004715 5
  • infertility 5
  • mesh:D017699 1
article 2025
Seminars in reproductive medicine ·doi:10.1055/s-0045-1814078
other 2025
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deaf113

STUDY QUESTION: Are we able to establish endometrium epithelial organoids (EEOs) from endometrial samples obtained from women with PCOS, and do they differ from non-PCOS EEOs? SUMMARY ANSWER: We were able to establish, for the first time, …

other 2025
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deaf154

STUDY QUESTION: What is the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) at fertile and late fertile age in women with history of endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: Women with endometriosis have lower HRQoL until late fertile age and depression, inf…

review 2024
Endocrinology ·doi:10.1210/endocr/bqae110

Stanniocalcin (STC) 1 and 2 serve as antihyperglycemic polypeptide hormones with critical roles in regulating calcium and phosphate homeostasis. They additionally function as paracrine and/or autocrine factors involved in numerous physiolog…

other 2023
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2022.09.361

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether there is an association between endometriosis and nongynecological diseases in the general female population by age 50? DESIGN: A prospective cohort study. SETTING: Study participants with and without end…

article 2023
·doi:10.1093/humrep/dead093.725

Abstract Study question Do women with endometriosis have decreased fertility and decreased number of children compared with women without endometriosis in a population-based study setting? Summary answer Women with endometriosis have decrea…

article 2022
·doi:10.1210/clinem/dgac150

CONTEXT: Limited studies have compared the effects of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) containing natural estrogens and synthetic ethinylestradiol (EE) on reproductive hormones. OBJECTIVE: To compare estradiol valerate (EV) + dienogest (…

article 2022
·doi:10.1093/humrep/deac250

STUDY QUESTION: Does an estradiol-based combined oral contraceptive (COC) have a milder effect on the serum proteome than an ethinylestradiol (EE)-based COC or dienogest (DNG) only? SUMMARY ANSWER: The changes in serum proteome were multifo…

other 2022
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.14382

INTRODUCTION: This population-based follow-up study investigated the comorbidities, medication use, and healthcare services among women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) at age 46 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study population deriv…

article 2021
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.14090

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition causing chronic pain and infertility. Only limited data exist on body size during childhood and adolescence in affected women. A leaner body shape has been associated with endo…

article 2021
·doi:10.1530/endoabs.73.pep4.1

Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology ISSN 1470-3947 (print) | ISSN 1479-6848 (online)

article 2020
·doi:10.1210/clinem/dgaa186

CONTEXT: Combined oral contraceptives (COCs) alter inflammatory status and lipid metabolism. Whether different estrogens have different effects is poorly understood. OBJECTIVE: We compared the effects of COCs containing ethinyl estradiol (E…

article 2020
·doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2020.10.014
article 2018
The journal of pain ·doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2018.02.005
article 2016
Biology of reproduction ·doi:10.1095/biolreprod.115.136010

Human endometrium undergoes cyclic regeneration involving stem/progenitor cells, but the role of resident endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (eMSC) as progenitors of endometrial stromal fibroblasts (eSF) has not been definitively demonstrat…

review 2016
·doi:10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2016.03.008
article 2015
article 2014
·doi:10.5301/je.5000198

Purpose Decidualization comprises specific biochemical and morphological changes in uterine endometrium essential for establishment of pregnancy. This process is abnormal in women with endometriosis, a disorder in which endometrial-like tis…

article 2007
·doi:10.1093/humrep/dem1068

Conclusions:The size of the 2 -5 mm follicle pool is an independent and important contributor to the FA of PCOS.This result could be explained by an exaggerated physiological inhibitory effect from this pool on the terminal follicle growth,…