Jo Kitawaki

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is increasingly recognized as a disorder of impaired reproductive immune tolerance rather than solely an endocrine disease. Although previous studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding the number of regu…

STUDY QUESTION: Does the restoration of regulatory T cells (Tregs) suppress the progression of endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: Adoptive transfer of Tregs suppresses the progression of endometriosis and reduces the levels of helper T (Th)-ce…

OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease wherein isoflavones interact with estrogen receptors. Daidzein-rich isoflavone aglycones (DRIAs) have been shown to inhibit cell proliferation and aromatase activity in vitro and in …

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis presents as endometrial tissue growths outside the uterine cavity with its major symptoms including dysmenorrhea and infertility. Progestin preparations, such as dienogest, are the first-line therapy for endometrio…

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OBJECTIVE: We examined the prevalence and risk factors in association with neonatal uterine bleeding (NUB) by retrospective search of contemporary and historical medical records and investigated the possible association between the history …

BACKGROUND: It has been hypothesized that the origin of early-onset endometriosis could be from endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (eMSCs) in neonatal uterine blood (NUB). There is no information on the possible mechanistic basis linking an…

Objectives: The effects of laparoscopic surgical management in women with stage III/IV endometriosis remain controversial. The standard extent of resection for stage III/IV endometriosis with deep endometriosis to treat endometriosis-associ…

PROBLEM: Endometriosis is a proliferative disease characterized by cytokine-induced inflammation. The objective of this study was to assess cell growth and PGE2 production induced by TNF-α in endometriotic stromal cells (ESCs) in spheroid c…

PURPOSE: To collect real-world safety and clinical outcome data on the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) for functional/organic heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) and dysmenorrhoea in Japanese women (J-MIRAI). MATERIALS AND…

More than 10 years following the publication of "The General Rules for Clinical Management of Endometriosis: The second edition" in January 2010, the long-awaited third edition has arrived. The second edition represents the bible for endome…

CONTEXT: Progesterone resistance including progesterone receptor (PR) deficiency contributes to the pathophysiology of endometriosis; however, whether the PR expression levels in ovarian endometrioma (OE) correlate with the postoperative re…

ObjectivesWe collected real-world data on the safety and clinical outcomes of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) for heavy menstrual bleeding and dysmenorrhea.Study DesignThis was a prospective, multicenter, single-c…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of 40-mg relugolix (REL) compared with those of leuprorelin (LEU) in women with endometriosis-associated pain. DESIGN: Phase 3, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, active-cont…

PURPOSE: To assess the efficacy and safety of dydrogesterone in Japanese women with ovarian endometrioma in a real-world setting. METHODS: The post-marketing study involved 15 sites in Japan. Dydrogesterone 10 mg twice daily orally was admi…

STUDY QUESTION: Is there any change in the distribution of microvilli and microtubules in the apical endometria of women with adenomyosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: We observed microvilli damage in the apical endometria and an axonemal alteration cha…

PROBLEM: Despite abundant reports on the risk role of uterine outflow tract obstruction in endometriosis, information on the occurrence of endometriosis in women with Chlamydia trachomatis infection causing fallopian tube obstruction is unk…