Maurizio Nicola D’Alterio

No ORCID on file · 39 papers in corpus · active 2015-2026

Study types

  • article 21
  • review 12
  • book-chapter 3
  • other 3

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 33
  • infertility 15
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 9
  • dysmenorrhea 4
  • endometrioma 3
  • die_deep_infiltrating 3
  • adenomyosis 2
review 2021
·doi:10.1186/s10397-021-01096-5

Abstract Endometriosis impairs the quality of life (QoL) of many women, including their social relationships, daily activity, productivity at work, and family planning. The aim of this review was to determine the instruments used to examine…

article 2021
Minerva obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.23736/s2724-606x.21.04737-7

Among them, DIE is considered the most aggressive, and the patient is often affected by more than one type together. The therapeutic methodology should not be influenced by a combination of different types of endometriotic lesion. According…

review 2020
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms21051765

The pathogenesis of endometriosis is unknown, but some evidence supports a genetic predisposition. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the recent literature on the genetic characterization of women affected by endometriosis and to eva…

article 2020
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.1080/09513590.2020.1766440

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease of women of reproductive age. Small bowel (SB) permeability and lipopolysaccharides (LPS) could play a role in the perduration of low grade inflammation status and the pathogenesis of endometr…

book-chapter 2020
·doi:10.1007/978-3-030-57866-4_8
article 2020
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-020-00370-9

Abstract Endometriosis is a common disease affecting women in reproductive age. There are several hypotheses on the pathogenesis of this disease. Often, its lesions and symptoms overlap with those of many other medical and surgical conditio…

book-chapter 2020
·doi:10.1007/978-3-030-57866-4_2
article 2020
·doi:10.1016/s1590-8658(20)30698-8
review 2019
Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society ·doi:10.1080/13697137.2018.1549213

The incidence of endometriosis in middle-aged women is not minimal compared to that in the reproductive age group. The treatment of affected women after childbearing age to the natural transition toward menopause has received considerably p…

review 2019
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.1080/09513590.2019.1588244

This review aimed to critically evaluate the review, observational, cohort, and case-control studies performed so far in order to assess the association between endometriosis and genetics. The search strategies used included an online searc…

article 2019
Human reproduction open ·doi:10.1093/hropen/hoz009

A network of endometriosis experts from 16 Italian academic departments and teaching hospitals distributed all over the country made a critical appraisal of the available evidence and definition of 10 suggestions regarding measures to be de…

review 2016
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.1080/09513590.2016.1197200

Adenomyosis is a heterogeneous gynaecologic condition with a range of clinical presentations, the most common being heavy menstrual bleeding and dysmenorrhoea; however, patients can also be asymptomatic. Several studies support the theory t…

review 2016
Expert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology ·doi:10.1517/17425255.2016.1171316

INTRODUCTION: Suppression of sex-steroid secretion is required in a variety of gynecological conditions. This can be achieved using gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists that bind pituitary gonadotropin receptors and antagonize the…

article 2015
·doi:10.3109/09513590.2015.1079175

In the menopausal transition (MT), combined oral contraceptive (COC) should be chosen accordingly to its neutrality on liver metabolism and to its ability to counter the increase of fat mass (FM) that occurs in this reproductive period of l…