Antonio Pellicer

BACKGROUND: Despite advancements in imaging techniques, the non-invasive diagnosis of adenomyosis remains particularly challenging due to the overlap of imaging features with other uterine diseases, and the lack of consistent correlation wi…

RESEARCH QUESTION: What is the effect of adenomyosis on cumulative live birth rate (CLBR) in women undergoing single embryo transfer in donor-oocyte cycles, with specific attention to type, location and severity of disease. DESIGN: Retrosp…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility of using hyperspectral imaging for endometrial evaluation as a potential minimally invasive method to identify the window of implantation within the same embryo transfer cycle. DESIGN: Prospective stu…

BACKGROUND: Infertility is an underrecognized disease which affects over 17% of the reproductive age population worldwide. However, availability of, and access to, assisted reproductive technology (ART) is variable across countries. There a…

BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the effectiveness of quinagolide vaginal ring on reducing total lesion size in endometrioma, deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE), and adenomyosis, as assessed using high-resolution MRI and imaging biomarke…

Extracellular vesicles play a key role in endometrium-embryo communication under both physiological and pathological conditions. This systematic review includes 49 studies that highlight how extracellular vesicles help optimize embryo impla…

This review article aims to summarize current tools used in the diagnosis of adenomyosis with relative pharmacological and surgical treatment and to clarify the relative association between adenomyosis and infertility, considering the impor…

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively examine the association between adenomyosis type, location, and severity with reproductive outcomes in patients undergoing single embryo transfer (SET) with embryos derived from donor oocytes. DESIGN: A prospect…

Endometriosis and adenomyosis are distinct clinical conditions that carry the same pathophysiological features. In recent years the clinical focus on assisted reproductive technology patients with either condition (E/A) has increased, in th…

BACKGROUND: Women with adenomyosis are characterized by having defective decidualization, impaired endometrial receptivity and/or embryo-maternal communication, and implantation failure. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying adenomyo…

BACKGROUND: Most women who are treated at in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics have trouble conceiving due to ovarian failure (OF), which seems to be associated to short telomeres and reduced or absent telomerase activity in their granulosa…

PURPOSE: Does vitrification/warming affect the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) content and the gene expression profile of blastocysts? METHODS: Prospective cohort study in which 89 blastocysts were obtained from 50 patients between July 2017 and…

RESEARCH QUESTION: Do patients with adenomyosis present a dysregulated endometrial receptivity that can be reversed with personalized embryo transfer (PET) by transcriptomic-based progesterone adjustment, improving IVF outcomes? DESIGN: A …

OBJECTIVE: To study the potential effect of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the endometrial transcriptome of affected, symptomatic women for the detection of altered gene expression. DESIGN: Pilot study of the endometrial transcriptomes …

Adenomyosis is related to infertility and miscarriages, but so far there are no robust in vitro models that reproduce its pathological features to study the molecular mechanisms involved in this disease. Endometrial organoids are in vitro 3…

RESEARCH QUESTION: Do extracellular vesicles secreted by the endometrium of women with adenomyosis contain miRNAs involved in adenomyosis-related infertility? DESIGN: A descriptive study using organoids from eutopic endometrium of women wi…

RESEARCH QUESTION: Does aromatase inhibitor improve IVF outcomes by reducing local oestrogen production in patients with adenomyosis undergoing long-term gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) treatment? DESIGN: Four patients with…

STUDY QUESTION: Are transcriptomic profiles altered in ovarian granulosa cells (GCs) and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMNCs) of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) compared to young poor responders (YPR) and women with norma…

Transcriptomic approaches are increasingly used in reproductive medicine to identify candidate endometrial biomarkers. However, it is known that endometrial progression in the molecular biology of the menstrual cycle is a main factor that c…

RESEARCH QUESTION: How does the number of oocytes used affect the cumulative live birth rate (CLBR) in endometriosis patients who had their oocytes vitrified for fertility preservation? DESIGN: Retrospective observational study including d…

Growing evidence of successful outcomes achieved with the oocyte vitrification technique has greatly contributed to its application in the field of fertility preservation (FP). The population that can benefit from FP includes women at a ris…

Adult stem cells (ASCs) were long suspected to exist in the endometrium. Indeed, several types of endometrial ASCs were identified in rodents and humans through diverse isolation and characterization techniques. Putative stromal and epithel…

RESEARCH QUESTION: Does 3-months of gonadotrophin releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) treatment before IVF improve clinical pregnancy rate in infertile patients with endometriosis? DESIGN: Single-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of 2…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the outcome of fertility preservation (FP) using vitrified oocytes in patients with endometriosis and to determine the impact of ovarian surgery. DESIGN: Retrospective observational study. SETTING: University-affili…