Drakakis P
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· 38 papers in corpus
· active 1998-2025
Study types
- article 7
- review 6
- other 2
Condition tags
- endometriosis 11
- infertility 8
- chronic_pelvic_pain 3
- dysmenorrhea 2
- endometrioma 2
- dyspareunia 2
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Frequent coauthors
- Stavros S 24
- Anastasios Potiris 20
- Athanasios Zikopoulos 15
- Petros Drakakis 15
- Ekaterini Domali 13
- Mavrogianni D 13
- Dimitroulia E 13
- Efthalia Moustakli 12
- Loutradis D 11
- Papakonstantinou A 10
article
2021
An extremely rare extrapelvic position of endometriosis with a precise incidence of 0.07%-0.47%, leading usually to delayed and false diagnosis. Differential diagnosis should include that rare condition while ultrasonography remains a pivot…
2021
A variety of protocols have evaluated the use of several forms of gonadotropins in controlled ovarian stimulation (COS). We aim to review the evolving trends on the use of gonadotropins human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), follicle-stimulati…
article
2019
Background Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine which plays an important role in the pathogenesis of many diseases. Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological diseases. The purpose of this study was …
article
2018
Since the introduction of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists, an extensive amount of literature investigating the role of the downregulation protocols on pregnancy outcomes has been published. However, these studies were main…
article
2017
INTRODUCTION: Ovarian vein thrombosis is a rare but potentially serious complication after surgical and gynecologic procedures such as oophorectomy and hysterectomy. The association of this event with laparoscopic hysterectomy in particular…
2013
PurposeTo investigate two of the most studied estrogen receptor alpha polymorphisms (PvuII and XbaI) in combination, in order to evaluate their impact on an ART program outcome.Methods203 normally ovulating women who underwent IVF or ICSI t…
2009
A simple, safe and cost-effective treatment protocol in ovarian stimulation is of great importance in IVF practice, especially in the case of previous unsuccessful attempts. hCG has been used as a substitute of LH because of the degree of h…
2009
BackgroundRecently, it has been demonstrated that, in patients down-regulated by GnRH analogues (GnRHa), a short-term pre-treatment with recombinant LH (rLH), prior to recombinant FSH (rFSH) administration, increases the number of small ant…
2007
PurposeTo review the available treatments for women with significantly diminished ovarian reserve and assess the efficacy of different ovarian stimulation protocols.MethodsLiterature research performed among studies that have been published…
article
2006
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Endometriosis is considered an important cause of chronic pelvic pain. Despite its high prevalence, controversy still exists regarding the true association between the extent of endometriosis and the severity of symptoms. W…
article
2006
In this study over a 10-year period, 1584 patients complaining of infertility of more than 1 year duration were evaluated for their laparoscopic findings in relation to the presence or not of chronic pelvic pain (CPP). Infertility was the o…
review
2003
Endometriosis has been traditionally included among the most important causes of chronic pelvic pain (CPP) in women of reproductive age. The main clinical manifestations of endometriosis are dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, and chronic nonmenstru…
article
1998
OBJECTIVE: To identify factors influencing postoperative pregnancy rate in women with extensive endometriosis and large endometriomata as the only identified cause of infertility that were treated by laparoscopy. METHOD: Sixty-four infertil…