Objective: To evaluate different postoperative medications as maintenance treatment for rectovaginal endometriosis (RVE) patients after conservative surgery. Methods: RVE patients who underwent transvaginal partial excision from January 200…
BACKGROUND: Adenomyosis is a gynecological disorder with symptoms most presenting as dysmenorrhea and heavy menstrual bleeding. However, the presence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) among women with adenomyosis remains unclear. This …
BACKGROUND: To explore the risk factors of endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer (EAOC) in women with ovarian endometriosis (OEM) aged 45 years and above in China. METHODS: This study reviewed the medical records of 1038 women in total w…
Obiective: To explore the risk factors of endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer (EAOC) in women with ovarian endometriosis aged 45 years and older in China. Methods: The medical records of total 1 038 women aged 45 years and older with a …
OBJECTIVE: To investigate treatment effects of levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) for adenomyosis with severe dysmenorrhea in a prospective cohort study. METHODS: From December 2006 to December 2014, patients of symptom…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of placement in the procedures of gynecological laparoscopies or routine placement on the effects of levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) for symptomatic adenomyosis in a prospective co…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate treatment effects of levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) for adenomyosis with menorrhea in a prospective study. METHODS: From December 2006 to December 2014, patients of symptomatic adenomyosis …
Objective: To investigate the changes of mestruation patterns and adverse effects during the treatment of levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system(LNG-IUS)for symptomatic adenomyosis in a prospective cohort study. Methods: From December…
BACKGROUND: Adenomyosis (AM) has impaired contraction. This study aimed to explore the expression of potassium channels related to contraction in myometrial smooth muscle cells (MSMCs) of AM. METHODS: Uterine tissue samples from 22 patient…
INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to investigate clinical, lifestyle, and environmental factors associated with endometrioma (OMA) and/or deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) as determined by case-control comparison [women with superfi…
BACKGROUND: The effect of endometriosis on obstetric outcomes is still ambiguous. The aim of our study was to determine the association between endometriosis and adverse obstetric outcomes in a cohort of Chinese women. METHODS: A retrospec…
OBJECTIVE: To profile the long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) expression patterns in ovarian ectopic endometrial tissue compared with paired eutopic endometrial tissue. DESIGN: Genome-wide expression analysis of human tissue. SETTING: University …
Endometriosis, characterized by endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, is a frequently occurred benign gynecologic disease that afflicts mainly women of reproductive age, with a prevalence of 6% to 10%. Endometriosis can be subdivided …
OBJECTIVE: The issue of female sexual function is often overlooked in women with endometriosis, especially in mainland China. The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence and associated factors of female sexual dysfunction i…
OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship between the clinic-pathological features and pain symptoms in patients with endometriotic cyst (EM). METHODS: The medical data of symptoms, laparoscopy and pathology examination in 416 patients with end…
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a controversial and enigmatic disease. Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) is responsible for painful symptoms and is the least understood type of endometriosis. Little work has been devoted to define the loca…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of transient receptor potential vanilloid subtype 1 (TRPV1) in uterosacral ligament and its correlation with pain in endometriosis. METHODS: Total of 54 patients undergoing endometriotic lesions exc…
Endometriosis has critical implications for women's quality of life. However, an overview of the current knowledge of this issue is limited. The objective of this systematic review was to determine the extent of endometriosis and its treatm…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist (GnRH-a) on the expression mRNA of nerve growth factor (NGF) and its receptors (TrkA and P75NTR) in normal and eutopic endometrial stromal cells (ESC). METHO…
STUDY QUESTION: What are the psychometric properties in mainland China of the 30-item Endometriosis Health Profile (EHP-30) translated into simplified Chinese? SUMMARY ANSWER: The simplified Chinese version of the EHP-30 is a valid, reliab…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate clinicopathological characteristics of recurrent endometriosis and outcomes of secondary surgery. METHODS: From Jan. 2003 to Dec. 2008, 69 cases with recurrent endometriosis operated by the same senior gynecologis…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate strategies of diagnosis and treatment of ureter endometriosis. METHODS: From 1983 to 2010, the cases registered in Peking Union Medical College Hospital and confirmed as ureter endometriosis by surgery were enroll…
OBJECTIVE: To explore the hospital expenses and hospital stay of surgical management for endometriosis and adenomyosis. METHODS: The average hospital expenses and average hospital stay were compared for a total of 12003 patients of endomet…