OBJECTIVE: A long-term, follow-up study comparing mild and severe forms of endometriosis and their fecundability, on 28 women diagnosed with endometriosis in adolescence. METHODOLOGY: Twenty-eight patients were identified from a prospectiv…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of endometriotic haptoglobin on peritoneal macrophage function. DESIGN: Prospective laboratory study. SETTING: School of medicine. PATIENT(S): Twenty-three women with and without endometriosis. INTERVE…
Based on our previous observation that peritoneal endometriotic (PE) lesions synthesize in vivo substantially more haptoglobin (Hp) than related eutopic tissues, we hypothesized that this increase in Hp production was due to endometrial-per…
Endometriosis protein-I (ENDO-I) mRNA expression and protein localization were evaluated using in-situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry in endometriotic lesions and eutopic endometrium from women with endometriosis, and in eutopic end…