Helena Meden Vrtovec

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2009-2018

Study types

  • article 4

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 4
  • infertility 2
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • dyspareunia 1
article 2018
·doi:10.6016/zdravvestn.2782

Background. Endometriosis is a comon, complex gynecological syndrom defined as the growth of endometrial glands and stroma in an extra-uterine location. It affects 5 – 20 % of women of reproductive age.1 Nowadays, prevailing opinion about e…

article 2018
·doi:10.6016/zdravvestn.2781

Background. Endometriosis is an estrogen dependent disease that affects 5 − 20 % of women of reproductive age. Course of the disease is progressive and leads to a variety of symptoms that range from pain complaints to infertility. Some symp…

article 2011

Background: Endometriosis is often defined as heterogeneous immune abnormality. In accordance with the data, women with endometriosis are more frequently affected by Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, r…

article 2009

Background Endometriosis is an estrogen dependent disease that affects 5-10% of women in reproductive age. Several theories tend to describe the ethiopathogenesis of the disease. One of them is based on menstrual regurgitation, the second i…