Jo Kitawaki
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· 109 papers in corpus
· active 1989-2026
Study types
- article 80
- other 13
- review 7
- book-chapter 3
- preprint 2
Condition tags
- endometriosis 98
- adenomyosis 24
- endometrioma 19
- infertility 9
- dysmenorrhea 9
- chronic_pelvic_pain 8
- die_deep_infiltrating 3
- dyspareunia 3
- bladder_endometriosis 1
- bowel_endometriosis 1
Top journals
Frequent coauthors
- Takahide Mori 53
- Izumi Kusuki 39
- Akemi Koshiba 39
- Fumitake Ito 32
- Khaleque Newaz Khan 30
- Yukiko Tanaka 24
- Akira Fujishita 22
- Hideo Honjo 22
- Hiroyuki Okimura 17
- Hisato Koshiba 15
other
2021
OBJECTIVE: We examined the hypothesis that antibiotic treatment with or without gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) may decrease intrauterine infection with consequent decrease in tissue inflammation, cell proliferation and angio…
other
2021
AIM: We aimed to describe the clinical presentation, operative or medical management, and postoperative recurrence of bladder endometriosis (BE). METHODS: We conducted a national survey to investigate BE cases from 2006 to 2016 in Japan. H…
article
2021
Abstract Purpose Human adenomyosis has an adverse effect on female fertility. Exact mechanistic basis is still unclear. We investigated the occurrence of chronic endometritis (CE) in different types of human adenomyosis. Methods This is a p…
article
2021
PROBLEM: Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs), a recently discovered family of innate immune cells, are responsible for the early immune response, and control both innate and adapted immune system via cytokine secretion. The role of ILCs in endomet…
book-chapter
2021
book-chapter
2021
article
2020
Chronic inflammation in endometriosis is associated with increased risk of future cardiovascular disease; however, no studies have investigated the cardiovascular risk of women who have undergone hormonal therapy for endometriosis. We inves…
article
2020
The aim of this publication is to disseminate the clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of intestinal, bladder/ureteral, thoracic and umbilical endometriosis, already published in Japanese, to non-Japanese speakers. For developing …
article
2020
PROBLEM: Inflammation and immune responses play crucial roles in the development of endometriosis. Although interleukin-9 (IL-9) has a pro-inflammatory function in chronic inflammatory diseases, its function in endometriosis remains unknown…
letter
2020
article
2020
BACKGROUND: The Vagi-Pipe® is a useful device for performing a total laparoscopic hysterectomy. The conventional model of the Vagi-Pipe® is unable to grasp the uterus during colpotomy for recovery of the resected uterus. However, the modifi…
article
2020
Laparoscopic surgery has become the gold standard treatment for endometriosis. Surgical treatment of deep endometriosis with colorectal involvement is challenging. It requires complete surgical excision of lesions despite a high risk of com…
article
2019
article
2019
article
2019
article
2019
CONTEXT: Regulatory T (Treg) cells and T-helper-17 (Th17) cells may be involved in endometriosis. Information on the pattern of change in the percentages of Treg and Th17 cells in the peripheral blood (PB) and peritoneal fluid (PF) of women…
review
2019
BACKGROUND: It has been well established that endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease. Although the exact pathogenesis of the disease is still unclear, it is known to be characterized by estrogen-dependent growth and maintenance of t…
article
2019
PROBLEM: Intrauterine microbial colonization and its association with the pathogenesis of endometriosis via an innate immune cascade have been reported. As a potential source of microbial transmission, information on microbial colonization …
article
2019
STUDY QUESTION: Is a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α)-mediated pathway involved in the development of endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: PGC-1α plays critical roles in inflammation and cell proliferation of e…
case-report
2019
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a life-threatening clinical syndrome of hypermetabolism involving skeletal muscle. Susceptibility to MH is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. Its common trigger is exposure to volatile anesthetic agent…
review
2018
Endometriosis is a common gynecological disease that causes various clinical symptoms, such as chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea and infertility, seriously affecting women's health and their quality of life. The symptoms and endometriotic l…
review
2018
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a multifactorial disease that mainly affects women of reproductive age. The exact pathogenesis of this disease is still debatable. The role of bacterial endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) and Toll-like receptor…
article
2018
article
2018
article
2018
AIM: We aimed to evaluate whether hormonal therapy immediately after postsurgical recurrence of ovarian endometrioma controls disease progression and can be an alternative therapeutic option to avoid multiple repeat surgeries. METHODS: We e…