Akiko Enatsu
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· 4 papers in corpus
· active 1999-2017
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder associated with pelvic pain and infertility. Because surgical and medical therapies control symptoms, but it is hard to cure completely endometriosis, long term of pharmacologic management is…
OBJECTIVES: Low dose oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) that contain synthetic estrogen and progestin are often used to relieve chronic pelvic pain associated with endometriosis. We sought to evaluate the efficacy of drospirenone/ethinylestrad…
Peritoneal fluid in women with endometriosis contains an increased number of activated macrophages that secrete a variety of cytokines, including interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, vascular endothelial growth factor, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha …