Ilaria Soave

Endometriosis is a chronic, inflammatory, estrogenic-dependent disease characterized by the presence of endometrial glands outside the uterine cavity, affecting approximately 2%–10% of women in reproductive age and 30%–50% of women in gener…

PURPOSE: Adenomyosis is a benign gynecological disease mostly diagnosed in the forth and fifth decades. The recent improvement of the diagnostic tools and a better understanding of the pathology allowed clinicians to postulate a possible re…

Endometriosis is a common, benign, estrogen-dependent gynecological disease that represents one of the main causes of hospitalization in industrialized countries. It is well established that a large amount of natural and man-made chemicals …

AIM: Aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of micronized palmitoylethanolamide (PEA)-transpolydatin in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain in women affected by endometriosis. METHODS: Twenty-four patients with suspected endome…

ObjectiveTo test the adjuvant use of the combination of N-palmitoylethanolamine and transpolydatin in the medical treatment of endometriotic pain.Study designWe enrolled 47 patients admitted to the Outpatient Endometriosis Care Unit of Ferr…

BackgroundEndometriotic lesions affect the fallopian tubes in 6% of patients with endometriosis and adhesions involve the salpinges in 26%. Different studies report that 45%-70% of adolescents with chronic pelvic pain have endometriosis dia…

We report a case of a rectus abdominis muscle endometriotic mass in a woman affected by multiple sclerosis. The pathogenesis of endometriosis is poorly understood but an immune system alteration could play a role in its onset and developmen…