Tommaso Falcone
ORCID: 0000-0001-6857-1780
· 205 papers in corpus
review
2009
Endometriosis is an enigmatic disorder with obscure pathogenesis. The objective of this review was to critically appraise the recent advances in the etiopathogenesis, diagnosis and clinical management of endometriosis. Several studies suppo…
review
2009
Endometriosis is a leading cause of pelvic pain and infertility in women. Laparoscopy can both diagnose and treat this disease. The aim of this review was to examine current literature on treatments for endometriosis for both pain and infer…
observational
2009
by endometriosis. In order to determine whether the extent of the decrease in AMH associated with endometriosis parallels the magnitude of the reduced responsiveness to COH previously reported, we will present COH and IVF/ ICSI outcomes in …
other
2009
OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of peritoneal fluid (PF) from healthy women and from women with endometriosis on sperm DNA and its relationship to sperm morphology as assessed by the sperm deformity index (SDI). DESIGN: Experimental study. …
observational
2008
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of time from surgery on the outcome of subsequent in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles in endometriosis patients. STUDY DESIGN: One hundred five women treated surgically for endometriosis and who underwent …
2008
2008
2008
lab-animal
2008
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the protective effect of L-carnitine (LC) against deleterious substances present in the peritoneal fluid (PF) of patients with endometriosis, which may affect the oocyte cytoskeleton and embryogenesis. DESIGN: Exp…
other
2008
Endometriotic foci, especially ovarian ones, with epithelial cytologic atypia may be precursors of cancer. This study presents an overview of the atypical cytological and histopathological findings associated with endometriosis. Six cases o…
case-report
2008
OBJECTIVE: To present a case demonstrating lack of efficacy of an aromatase inhibitor in treating ureteral endometriosis. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: A tertiary-care hospital. PATIENT(S): A 47-year-old woman with severe ureteral endome…
2008
2008
observational
2008
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the need for further surgery after laparoscopic excision of endometriosis or hysterectomy. METHODS: In this retrospective study, women who had surgery for endometriosis-associated pain at the Cleveland Clinic were…
review
2008
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a common chronic disease that causes symptoms of pain and infertility. The pain syndrome can be quite incapacitating. The pain symptoms usually originate in the reproductive organs but can also involve the urina…
2007
observational
2007
The objective of this study was to investigate the role of cytokines in the peri-ovulatory follicular fluid (FF) during IVF cycles. FF from 112 women was obtained during oocyte retrieval for IVF. The concentrations of five cytokines [interl…
2007
2007
observational
2007
Peritoneal fl uid cytokines are important for initiation and progression of endometriosis. The objective of this study was to compare a group of fi ve cytokines (interleukins IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-13 and tumour necrosis factor α; TNFα) in p…
observational
2007
Peritoneal fluid cytokines are important for initiation and progression of endometriosis. The objective of this study was to compare a group of five cytokines (interleukins IL-1 beta, IL-6, IL-8, IL-13 and tumour necrosis factor alpha; TNFa…
2007
2007
2007
observational
2007
OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence of and risk factors for injury to the lower urinary tract during total laparoscopic hysterectomy. METHODS: All patients who underwent total laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign disease from January 1,…