Ballesteros A

No ORCID on file · 8 papers in corpus · active 2007-2025

Study types

  • article 6

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • infertility 1
  • thoracic_endometriosis 1
  • die_deep_infiltrating 1
2025
Reducing Storage-Related Bias in Reproductive Vitamin D Research: Towards a Stable and Reliable Biomarker of Ovarian Vitamin D Status.
Nutrients ·doi:10.3390/nu17233783

Background/Objectives: One of the main reasons for discrepancies in the role of vitamin D in ART could be the measurement of the conventional biomarker 25(OH)D3. It is known that this value is affected by multiple factors, such as tissue or…

2024
An Analysis of the Digestive and Reproductive Tract Microbiota in Infertile Women with Obesity.
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms252312600

Previous studies have linked the microbiome of distinct body habitats to obesity and infertility; however, the often-divergent results observed have left the role of the so-called "second genome" in obese infertile patients incompletely exp…

article 2020
External validation of putative biomarkers in eutopic endometrium of women with endometriosis using NanoString technology
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics ·doi:10.1007/s10815-020-01965-6

PurposeTo combine different independent endometrial markers to classify the presence of endometriosis.MethodsEndometrial biopsies were obtained from 109 women with endometriosis as well as 110 control women. Nine candidate biomarkers indepe…

article 2019
Endometrial Stromal Cells Circulate in the Bloodstream of Women with Endometriosis: A Pilot Study
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms20153740

Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus. While endometriotic tissue is commonly localized in the pelvic cavity, it can also be found in distant sites, including the brain. The origin and patho…

article 2018
Lgr5 Does Not Vary Throughout the Menstrual Cycle in Endometriotic Human Eutopic Endometrium
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms20010022

Endometriosis is characterized by the abnormal presence of endometrium outside of the uterus, resulting in pelvic pain and infertility. The leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 (LGR5) has been postulated to be a marke…

article 2017
Aberrant expression of epithelial leucine-rich repeat containing G protein–coupled receptor 5–positive cells in the eutopic endometrium in endometriosis and implications in deep-infiltrating endometriosis
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.08.018

ObjectiveTo characterize leucine-rich repeat containing G protein-coupled receptor 5-positive (LGR5+) cells from the endometrium of women with endometriosis.DesignProspective experimental study.SettingUniversity hospital/fertility clinic.Pa…

article 2012
Efficacy of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device in the treatment of recurrent pelvic pain in multitreated endometriosis.
The Journal of reproductive medicine

OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device (LNG-IUD) in the treatment of pelvic pain in patients with endometriosis in which previous medical and surgical treatments have failed. STUDY DESIGN: This pr…

article 2007
[Catamenial pneumothorax secondary to thoracic endometriosis].
Ginecologia y obstetricia de Mexico

It is a 27 years old patient, childbirths three, menarche 13 years, regular cycles, with dismenorrea incapacitante twice a year, referring light dispareunia, which was refered a our hospital. She had been hospitalized three days ago present…