Marcos Ballester

Endometriosis is a condition where hormonal-responsive endometrial tissue grows outside the uterus usually within the pelvic cavity. Extra-abdominal endometriosis is less common and may involves the skin. Subcutaneous endometriosis is rare.…

Endometriosis is a benign pathology that affects 3% of the general population and about 10% of women of reproductive age. Three anatomoclinical entities are described: peritoneal, ovarian (endometrioma) and deep endometriosis characterized …

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this review was to assess the impact of colorectal endometriosis on spontaneous fertility and the potential benefit of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) (in vitro fertilization and intrauterine insemination) and s…

Objectif : evaluer l’impact de l’endometriose colorectal sur la fertilite spontanee et le benefice potentiel de l’assistance medicale a la procreation (AMP) (fecondation in vitro et l’insemination intra-uterine) et de la chirurgie sur les r…

Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) affects several anatomical locations including the bladder, torus uterinum, uterosacral ligament, rectovaginal septum and bowel. It is the most debilitating form of endometriosis and causes severe pain,…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate delivery and neonatal outcomes in women with resected or in situ bowel endometriosis. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: France. POPULATION AND SAMPLE: Analysis of 72 pregnancies from 67 women followed fo…

Eutopic endometrium and peritoneal, ovarian and colorectal endometriotic tissues express a different profile of Nectin-1,-3,-4 and nectin-like molecule 2

study question: What is the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of parametrial endometriosis in com-parison with surgicopathological findings? summary answer: MRI displayed an accuracy of 96.4 % in the preoperative…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic contribution of the computed tomography (CT) enema and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for multifocal (multiple lesions affecting the same segment) and multicentric (multiple lesions affecting se…

OBJECTIVE: Around 5% of women experience persistent voiding dysfunction after surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) with colorectal involvement. The gold standard to manage persistent voiding dysfunction is intermittent self-cat…

OBJECTIVE: A prospective pilot study to evaluate the potential role of osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMT) on quality of life (QOL) of patients with Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis (DIE) and colorectal involvement. STUDY DESIGN: Twenty …

Endometriosis is a benign disorder affecting 10 to 15% of women of reproductive age. It is defined by the presence of endometrium-like tissue outside the uterus. There are three different entities of endometriosis: superficial endometriosis…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate urinary dysfunction and quality of life before and after surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). METHODS: This prospective study included 50 patients with DIE who required surgery. Urinary dysfunction was …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the external validity of the validated French model of the quality-of-life questionnaire (QOL) SF-36 in predicting improvement after colorectal resection for endometriosis. DESIGN: Italian and Brazilian cohort …

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the long-term symptoms, quality of life (QOL), and fertility after colorectal resection for endometriosis. METHODS: Extended analysis of a randomized controlled trial including 52 patients with colorectal endometrio…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of protective defunctioning stoma (PDS) on the occurrence of digestive tract complications after colorectal resection to treat endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force class…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the characteristics of patients with colorectal endometriosis and extraserosal pelvic fascia (EPF) involvement and to assess the effect of EPF resection. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force cl…

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the impact of the association of endometrioma with or without deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) after a first intra cytoplasmic sperm injection- in vitro fertilization (ICSI-IVF) cycle on pregnancy rate. MATERIA…

Background: To evaluate the impact of the association of endometrioma with or without deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) after a first intra cytoplasmic sperm injection- in vitro fertilization (ICSI-IVF) cycle on pregnancy rate. Material…

Background: To evaluate the impact of the association of endometrioma with or withoutdeep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) after a first intra cytoplasmic sperm injection- invitro fertilization (ICSI-IVF) cycle on pregnancy rate.Materials a…

The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) of patients with deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) using EuroQOL (EQ-5D) and its correlation with symptoms and locations of endometriotic lesions. One hundred and fif…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis affects 10-15% of the female population in the reproductive period and is detected in up to 40% of infertile women. Surgery is indicated to improve fertility and symptoms in these women, but some patients experienc…