Jean Calleja‐Agius

ORCID: 0000-0001-6369-0297 · 6 papers in corpus · active 2011-2024

Study types

  • review 4
  • article 1
  • dataset 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • infertility 2
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
review 2024
Discovery medicine ·doi:10.24976/discov.med.202436182.44

Endometriosis is a medical condition affecting at least up to 10% of women of reproductive age. This condition occurs when ectopic endometrial glands and stroma implant outside the uterus and there are several theories regarding the underly…

review 2023
Prostaglandins & other lipid mediators ·doi:10.1016/j.prostaglandins.2023.106734

This literature review compared the efficacy in of NSAIDs with a placebo in pain relief and disease regression of endometriosis. Despite the poor evidence found, the results showed that NSAIDs were more effective in pain relief with regress…

dataset 2014
·doi:10.3410/f.718490063.793497214
review 2012
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.3109/09513590.2011.650761

Endometriosis is the leading cause of morbidity among premenopausal women affecting about 1 in 10 females. The features shared by endometriosis and cancer include the ability to evade apoptosis, the stem cell-like ability and angiogenic pot…

article 2011
Minerva ginecologica

Endometriosis occurs when ectopic cells from the endometrium implant within the peritoneum. It is considered as a disease of multifactorial aetiology and affects 7-10% of women of reproductive age worldwide. In endometriosis, the immune sys…

review 2011
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.3109/09513590.2011.588753

Endometriosis is a leading cause of infertility in women of reproductive age. It involves the occurrence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine endometrium, mainly in the peritoneal cavity. Prostaglandin E(2) is up regulated in the perit…