Agneta Bergqvist

BACKGROUND: To assess whether hormonal treatment of endometriosis improves quality of life for women with endometriosis. METHODS: In a prospective, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy study on 48 women with verified endometriosis, the p…

BackgroundTo assess whether hormonal treatment of endometriosis improves quality of life for women with endometriosis.MethodsIn a prospective, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy study on 48 women with verified endometriosis, the pain pa…

OBJECTIVE: To compare the levels of IL-1beta, IL-6, and TNFalpha in endometriotic tissue and in endometrium from women with endometriosis and healthy controls. DESIGN: Open. SETTING: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at a university…

The aim of pharmacological treatment of endometriosis is to reduce estrogen levels, which may be achieved using gestagens or GnRH-agonists. The effects of the different hormones are mainly the same, while side effects differ. If the GnRH-ag…

Fertilization and oocyte cleavage rates have previously been demonstrated to be lower for women with endometriosis undergoing IVF compared with controls. This might be related to impaired oocyte function, possibly due to an inflammatory mil…

Endometriosis is a common disease with serious consequences for the patient and for society. Until now there has been no reliable method for diagnosing endometriosis besides direct visualization, e.g. utilizing laparoscopy. IVF offers the m…

The production of IL-1beta, IL-6, IL-8 and TNF-alpha was studied in short-time culture of separated stromal and epithelial cells. The cytokine secretion into culture medium was analyzed using immunoassay to evaluate the cytokine protein lev…

The principal symptoms and signs of endometriosis are tissue lesions and pelvic pain. These occur to varying degrees, with a chronic pattern and a tendency for deterioration with time. Patients with endometriosis often also have fertility p…

Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity, most commonly on the ovary and peritoneum. The aetiology of endometriosis is not understood, although the adhesion of endometrial ce…

OBJECTIVE: To compare the effect of a GnRH-agonist, triptorelin, versus placebo on the symptoms of endometriosis. DESIGN: A prospective, randomized, double-blind study of 6 months of treatment followed by 12 months of follow-up. SETTING: …

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether there is a difference in fibrinolytic compounds in endometriotic tissue, endometrium, peritoneal fluid (PF), and plasma from women with endometriosis and in endometrium and PF from healthy women. DESIGN: Pro…

PURPOSE: The aim of this retrospective study was to compare the outcome of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer in women with endometriosis and a control group with tubal-factor infertility. METHODS: Forty-eight patients with endomet…

The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of nafarelin 200 micrograms (Group A), nafarelin 400 micrograms (Group B) and the combination of nafarelin 200 micrograms and norethisterone 1.2 mg (Group C) daily, in treating symptom…

OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to determine the risk of cancer after hospitalization for endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: Records of 20,686 women hospitalized with endometriosis during the period 1969 to 1983, as identified through the nationwide Sw…

BACKGROUND: The capacity of different tissues to respond to steroids has been evaluated mainly according to the concentrations of oestrogen (ER) and progesterone (PR) receptors, which may be assayed either in tissue homogenates or histochem…

OBJECTIVE: To assay the cathepsin D level in endometriotic tissue, to study the difference to uterine endometrium and the correlation to localization. DESIGN: Prospective consecutive study on endometriotic tissue and endometrium. SETTING:…

ObjectiveTo assay the cathepsin D level in endometriotic tissue, to study the difference to uterine endometrium and the correlation to localization.DesignProspective consecutive study on endometriotic tissue and endometrium.SettingUniversit…

Endometriotic tissue sometimes shows an invasive pattern. but the growth regulation of the tissue is insufficiently characterized. In a research programme on factors regulating endometriotic growth, the DNA ploidy status and S-phase fractio…

Journal Article The relationship between endometriotic lesions and the disease endometriosis Get access Agneta Bergqvist Agneta Bergqvist Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Huddinge University HospitalS-141 86 Huddinge, Sweden Search …

We investigated the effect of nafarelin monotherapy and nafarelin/ norethisterone combination therapy on bone turnover and bone mass. A total of 49 premenopausal women with endometriosis confirmed by laparoscopy were randomized to double-bl…

Endometriotic growth may appear in any structure in the body. As well as affecting the internal genitalia, lesions are not uncommon in the bowel, urinary tract and thorax and reports of a number of cases at rarer sites have been published. …

OBJECTIVE: To study the hormonal regulation of primary and recurrent endometriosis by comparing the levels of estrogen receptors (ER) and progesterone receptors (PR) with the levels in uterine endometrium obtained simultaneously. DESIGN: T…

ObjectiveTo study the hormonal regulation of primary and recurrent endometriosis by comparing the levels of estrogen receptors (ER) and progesterone receptors (PR) with the levels in uterine endometrium obtained simultaneously.DesignTissue …

The objective of the study was to compare the localization and staining intensity of oestrogen and progesterone receptors in endometrium and endometriotic tissue. Using monoclonal antibodies towards oestrogen and progesterone receptors, ana…