Natalia Nowak

ORCID: 0000-0002-1019-1395 · 3 papers in corpus
other 2008
·doi:10.17169/refubium-12324

Endometriosis is a common gynaecological disease, affecting around 10 % of women in reproductive age. It is characterised by the presence of endometrial tissue fragments outside the uterine cavity, the so called endometriotic lesions, which…

article 2008
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/den189

BACKGROUND: The role of the immune system in the pathogenesis of endometriosis remains elusive. It has been shown that patients have an altered peritoneal environment with increased levels of inflammatory cytokines, activated macrophages an…

article 2007
·doi:10.1055/s-2007-972419

Endometriosis is a common, benign, estrogen-dependent gynaecological disease characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. After the Sampson theory one possible pathophysiological cause is retrograde menstr…