L Muzii

Endometriosis entails a huge burden: it is estimated that affects 10% of women in their reproductive age.Symptoms may be severe (chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, dysuria, dyschezia and fatigue) affecting women's quality of li…

Abstract Study question Do women with symptomatic endometriosis exhibit a higher risk of central sensitization compared with women without endometriosis but affected by other chronic pain syndromes? Summary answer Women with symptomatic end…

Uterine fibroids have an impact on women's lives due to their high prevalence, physical symptoms, their consequences on patients' emotional and psychological well-being and loss of work productivity. The choice of therapeutical approaches v…

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…

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…

The core definition of endometriosis is when endometrial glands and stoma are identified outside the uterine cavity. It is estimated to affect 2-10% of women in their reproductive age, and 50% of patients complain of infertility. Ovarian en…

Infertility, defined as the inability to conceive despite regular unprotected sexual intercourse over 12 years, affects approximately 10% of the fertile population. The commonest cause of tubal damage is pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), w…

ObjectiveTo investigate the activity of different forms of endometriosis implants by clinical and biochemical evaluation.DesignProspective, blinded study.SettingTertiary-care university hospital.Patient(s)Forty-seven infertile patients with…

ObjectiveWe sought to evaluate the efficacy of postoperative administration of monophasic, combined, low-dose oral contraceptives on endometrioma recurrence and on persistence-recurrence of associated pain symptoms after laparoscopic treatm…

Endometriosis is defined as the presence of the endometrium outside the endometrial cavity. If the ectopic mucosa is located within the endometrium, the disease is defined as endometriosis interna, or adenomyosis, whereas the localization o…

Operative laparoscopy has replaced the conventional approach by laparotomy to the treatment of most benign gynecological diseases (benign adnexal cysts, ectopic pregnancy, tubal infertility, polycystic ovarian disease, endometriosis, myomas…

ObjectiveOur purpose was to evaluate the recurrence rate after laparoscopic excision of ovarian endometrioma.Study designAn unrandomized prospective clinical study was performed at 2 tertiary-care centers of 366 patients who had a minimum o…

ObjectiveTo evaluate the correlation between the severity of endometriosis-associated dysmenorrhea and the extent of the disease assessed both with a current classification system and with the number and type of endometriosis lesions.Design…

From April 1, 1995, to December 31, 1995, 45 patients undergoing diagnostic or operative laparoscopy for infertility, pelvic pain, or both, were found to have endometriosis. No woman had undergone any preoperative medical or surgical treatm…

Study objectiveTo evaluate the stress hormone response after pelvic surgery performed by laparoscopy versus laparotomy.DesignProspective study.SettingA tertiary care university hospital.PatientsTen women were scheduled to undergo laparoscop…

Study objectiveTo compare the efficacy of laparoscopy versus microsurgery by laparotomy in the treatment of ovarian endometriomas.DesignRetrospective study with historical controls.SettingA tertiary university hospital.PatientsOne hundred t…

It has been suggested that atypical, nonpigmented endometriotic lesions have an increased capacity to synthesize prostaglandin (PG)F2alpha compared with typical endometriosis, and could therefore represent the more active forms of the disea…

OBJECTIVE: To compare surgical performance and recurrence rates in patients submitted to laparoscopy for endometrioma excision following GnRH agonist (GnRH-a) treatment versus no preoperative medical treatment. DESIGN: Controlled clinical …

The aim of the present study is to compare the outcome of GnRH analog treatment versus expectant management in infertile patients with minimal and mild endometriosis. From January 1987 to December 1990, 14 patients with stage I and II endom…

From 1 July 1990 to 31 January 1994, 55 patients underwent operative laparoscopy for the excision of monolateral endometriomas. None of the patients had previously undergone surgery by laparotomy or laparoscopy. At the time of laparoscopy, …

Two-hundred-and-six patients newly diagnosed to have endometriosis at laparoscopy were evaluated in order to see if endometriosis-associated symptoms are proportional to the extent of the disease, as assessed using the Revised American Fert…

Chronic pelvic pain, defined as cyclic or acyclic pain reported for a minimum of six months, is one of the most common gynecological symptoms and one of the most important in terms of social costs. From January 1987 to December 1991, 127 pa…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the outcome of ultrasound-guided aspiration of ovarian endometriotic cysts. METHOD: Thirty-four patients with ovarian endometriomas were submitted to transvaginal (28 patients) or transabdominal (6 patients) ultrasoun…

Endoscopic evaluation of the tubal mucosa has been shown to be an important prognostic factor in predicting the probability of a subsequent intrauterine pregnancy. A recent classification of the tubal mucosa lesions allows uniformity of eva…