International journal of fertility

Serum CA 125 levels were assayed in 75 healthy female controls and 34 patients with external endometriosis prior to treatment, during treatment, and after treatment. The results of the assay showed that the mean pretreatment serum CA 125 le…

Eight menstrually cycling women with proven endometriosis were treated with a delayed-release preparation of the superactive agonist D-Trp-6-LH-RH in biodegradable microcapsules, administered intramuscularly at intervals of 16 to 36 days fo…

The neodymium:yttrium-aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) laser was used via laparoscopy in 84 patients complaining of infertility and/or pelvic pain. All patients in the study had biopsy-proven or visually confirmed pelvic endometriosis. The Nd:YAG l…

Peritoneal endometriotic implants and adjacent normal peritoneum from five patients were analyzed for prostaglandin (PG) release. Each tissue biopsy was incubated using medium 199 in triplicate at 37 degrees C for six hours, and PGF2 alpha …

The results of second-look laparoscopy were compared with subjective symptomatology and findings at pelvic exploration in 36 patients who had received conservative treatment for endometriosis. In the 14 patients given pharmacologic treatmen…

One hundred eighty-two women were diagnosed by laparoscopy as having an initial episode of acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). The classification of PID was based on a modification of Westrom's criteria. Antibiotic treatment followed r…

Laparoscopic oophorectomy or salpingo-oophorectomy was performed in 24 women using bipolar coagulation followed by scissors division of the infundibulopelvic ligament, the utero-ovarian ligament, and the broad ligament. Indications were pel…

Forty-four patients with and without mild endometriosis were tested for the presence in peritoneal fluid of autoantibodies against endometrial and ovarian antigens. Five patients with endometriosis and one patient in the control group had s…

Reversible temporary medical oophorectomy using long-acting agonist analogs of LH-RH was tried in three infertile patients suffering from large endometriomas of the ovary. These patients had stage IV disease according to the revised 1985 cl…

Pelvic inflammatory disease. Attention is directed to the medical consequences of (PID) such as recurrent/chronic infection chronic pain ectopic pregnancy infertility and mortality. Risk factors for PID are also discussed as well as clinica…

Several reports suggest that women with endometriosis have a higher risk of spontaneous abortions when left untreated; however, these studies did not control for the presence of possible luteal phase defects. This study was designed to docu…

To evaluate the effect of fulguration of endometriotic implants in patients with mild endometriosis, we divided 123 patients into two groups: (A) patients whose endometriotic implants were coagulated, and (B) patients whose implants were le…

The utilization of CO2 laser laparoscopy has become an increasingly accepted procedure because of its ability to obviate the need for major surgery. The accuracy of the laser beam through its delivery system, in addition to minimal tissue d…

This retrospective study confirms that laparoscopy should be performed early in the infertility investigation when pelvic pathology is suspected. If performed, the procedure should be via the double-puncture technique. Otherwise, it should …

Contemporary programs of in vitro fertilization (IVF) approach a pregnancy rate per cycle which is comparable to the pregnancy rate per month of exposure in normal reproduction. IVF has changed the approach to several pelvic conditions. Bec…

Conventional approaches to the treatment of endometriosis usually require major surgery, prolonged use of medications or both. The laser has provided an opportunity to treat mild and moderate endometriosis at the time of diagnosis at laparo…

This paper reviews the developments of the LHRH analogs (agonists and antagonists) in terms of their conceptive, contraceptive and therapeutic utility. It draws upon the mass of data derived from pre-clinical and clinical studies, in both s…

The luteal function of 27 patients with mild endometriosis and infertility was compared with that of 50 infertile patients without endometriosis. The incidence of endometrial luteal phase deficiency was similar in both groups of patients. L…

Thirty-nine patients with pelvic endometriosis and 45 patients with no evidence of endometriosis were entered in this study. The mean age was 29 years for each group. The volume of peritoneal fluid showed an increase towards the end of the …

A combination of danazol (15 mg/kg b.w./day; oral) plus TE (5 mg/kg b.w./15 days; i.m.) was investigated for reversible inhibition of testicular function in rabbit. Testicular histology and biochemistry were studied before, during (30, 60 &…

Histochemical and in vitro investigations of the autonomic innervation in the human mesotubarium ovarica (MTO) are described here in the course of our studying its physiologic role in the capture of released oocytes at ovulation. The presen…

The amounts of PGF2 alpha in peritoneal fluid were determined by radioimmunoassay in 21 patients undergoing exploratory laparotomy or diagnostic laparoscopy for infertility during the follicular phase of the cycle. Detectable levels of PGF2…

The importance of the lysis of periadnexal adhesions with regard to pregnancy rate was evaluated in 101 infertile patients. All patients had at least one patent tube and normal fimbria. The periadnexal adhesions were classified into four gr…