Endometriosis is a common disease, not uncommonly debilitating with severe negative impact on all domains of life for women. The long-standing approach is that endometriosis is one of many gynecological benign conditions. Nevertheless, ther…
INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is a disabling disease impacting on different aspects of reproductive health. The present study aims to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a questionnaire to measure the reproductive health in wo…
OBJECTIVE: We aim to evaluate the knowledge and physicians' practices concerning fertility preservation in women with endometriosis. DESIGN: Descriptive, observational, national study using an online self-questionnaire, sent by email to Fr…
Endometriosis is a gynocological disease characterized by the presence of the endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterine cavity. This disease affects % 6-10 of women with reproductive age and it causes serious problems such as pelvic…
OBJECTIVE: to identify novel biomarkers for peritoneal endometriosis in eutopic endometrium thus giving an oportunity for non-invasive diagnosis. DESIGN: A cross-sectional single-center study SETTING: tertiary care hospital PATIENTS: 49 pa…
INTRODUCTION: Rectosigmoid endometriosis and Dolichocolon can both present with a triad of chronic abdominal pain, constipation and bloating. The relationship between these two pathologies is unknown. The present study aims to determine the…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of ginsenoside Rg3 on human ectopic endometriotic stromal cells in vitro. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ectopic endometrial tissue specimens were obtained from 6 female patients with ovarian endometriosis who…
AIM: Endometriosis, one of the most common gynecological disorder, is a challenging disease observed in 20 %-40 % of subfertile women. Endometriomas affect 17-44 % of women with endometriosis. Because endometrioma has detrimental effects on…
OBJECTIVE: To study possible associations between endometriosis and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). DESIGN: Retrospective cohort analysis over 14 consecutive years, based on medical records and insurance coding in a tertiary care endome…
Our objective was to assess and rank different pharmacological interventions for relieving endometriosis-related pain. We conducted an online bibliographic search in different databases from their inception until March 2019. We included ran…
Human pasteurellosis with a gynecologic tropism is rare. A 54 year-old woman presented with sepsis due to a uterine abscess from pasteurella multocida (PM) secondarily complicated by gluteal abscess. She had a history of adenomyosis and had…
BACKGROUND: As endometriosis is not a single condition but different morphological types, it is easy to conceive that its management allow for a diversity of approaches. The objective of this literature review is about a simplified pathway …
INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is a chronic systemic disease, which influence negatively the quality of life of affected women and responsible for infertility and chronic pelvic pain. Pathophysiology of the disease is still enigmatic, but insu…
INTRODUCTION: The aim of our study is to describe MRI appearance of a posterior rectal pouch (PRP) for patients managed for low rectal endometriosis by large full-thickness disc excision and to assess its relationship with postoperative fun…
INTRODUCTION: Patients with Mayer - Rokitansky - Küster - Hauser (MRKH) syndrome often experience chronic pelvic pain negatively impacting their life's quality. Our understanding of the factors involved in this symptom remains poor. The aim…
OBJECTIVE: To assess the reliability of YouTube® endometrioma cystectomy videos based on technical video analysis and considering the surgical steps. MATERIAL AND METHOD: The present study yielded 756 videos after a search on YouTube® with…
Gap junction form channels between the cells and facilitate the function of cellular cross talk. Connexins, the gap junction proteins play an essential role in female reproductive health and its expression anomalies are correlated with fema…
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the surgical learning curve impact the spontaneous pregnancy rate in infertile patients undergoing removal of deep infiltrating endometriosis MATERIAL AND METHODS: Single center retrospective study including…
BACKGROUND: A better characterization of steroid intracrine pathways in endometriosis lesions may lead to a better understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease and insights on the mechanism of resistance to medical therapy. The study ai…
INTRODUCTION: Term prelabor rupture of membranes (TPROM) occurs in approximately 8 % of pregnancies. This condition regularly requires medical intervention such as induction of labor. The actual data concerning cervical ripening in case of …
OBJECTIVE: To review the impact of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene in the development and severity of endometriosis. SEARCH STRATEGY: We searched Medline, Scopus, Clinicaltrials.…
OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent chronic disease, which is regarded as a disease of reproductive-aged women. Endometriosis is most frequently diagnosed during reproductive period. We aimed to determine the frequency of endo…
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this work was to analyze the transvaginal approach in minimally invasive surgery in terms of anatomical, histopathological and functional characteristics, to show the safety of this surgical approach. METHODS: Anat…
BACKGROUND: Acute dysmenorrhoea in women which has been shown to be anatomically negative for endometriosis is a very common condition. It is frequently associated with Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) from uterine origin, including painful uterin…