Yuichi Sato

Recently, the employment rate of women in Japan has steadily increased. Approximately 80% of women experience menstrual pain and premenstrual syndrome (PMS). These symptoms decrease a woman's quality of life and her work productivity, leadi…

OBJECTIVE: To elucidate the risk factors associated with resignation from work of Japanese women undergoing infertility treatment. METHODS: A total of 1727 female patients who attended a private fertility clinic in Japan participated in th…

Objective: To evaluate the clinical practice and short-term efficacy of microwave endometrial ablation (MEA) to treat menorrhagia, and to identify prognostic factors for optimal outcomes. Methods: We performed MEA in 22 women with menorrhag…

PURPOSE: Thyroid dysfunction and autoimmune thyroiditis are associated with fertility in women of reproductive age. Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), a known biomarker of ovarian function, may be affected by impaired thyroid function; however, …

BACKGROUND: We evaluated the effectiveness of low-dose patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) in the patients undergoing laparoscopic gynecological surgery, and investigated the difference of postoperative pain between patients for la…

Obstructive Mullerian anomalies cause severe dysmenorrhea following menarche as a result of disturbed menstrual outflow. Therefore, surgical management such as extirpation of the obstructive uterine horn is required for treatment of these p…

OBJECTIVE: In order to assess the endocrinological changes associated with 2 types of low-dose GnRH agonists depot as well as their clinical efficacy, we performed a randomized prospective comparison study of patients having uterine leiomyo…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of ketamine compared with fentanyl as analgesia or sedation for microlaparoscopy. DESIGN: Prospective, randomized study (Canadian Task Force classification I). SETTING: University-affiliated …