DooSeok Choi

STUDY SUBJECT: To investigate the impact of preoperative hormonal medication, including combined oral contraceptives or dienogest, on operative findings in ovarian endometrioma surgery. DESIGN: A single-center, retrospective study. SETTIN…

OBJECTIVE: Clinical characteristics of patients with endometrioma without dysmenorrhea have not been well delineated; our goal was to remedy this issue by performing a retrospective cohort study. METHODS: A total of 379 patients who underwe…

OBJECTIVE: Recent studies have suggested that endometriosis could be the result of excessive activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), which is associated with the regulation of essential cellular mechanisms …

BACKGROUND: There are several medical treatment options for endometrioma. Progestin, especially dienogest, is an effective drug for preventing recurrence of endometrioma after surgery. Additionally, oral contraceptive (OC) use after conserv…

The NOD-like receptor pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome is a cytosolic multi-protein complex that induces inflammation and is known to be regulated negatively by autophagy. Previous studies reported an abnormal induction of aut…

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress serves as a key modulator of the inflammatory response by controlling nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-κB) signaling. Previous studies from our laboratory have reported an abnormal induction of ER stress linked to…

Dienogest, a specific progesterone receptor agonist, is used in the treatment of endometriosis. However, it is still unclear as to the mechanisms of therapeutic effects on endometriosis. Our recent study showed that endometriosis may be the…

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is known to reduce invasiveness in some cancer cells by inhibiting the AKT/mTOR pathway. A previous study from our laboratory suggested that ER stress is promoted by progesterone in human endometrial cells,…

In some human cancer cells, PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10) is known to regulate autophagy induction positively through the inhibition of PI3K/AKT pathway, leading to the activation of mTOR, a major negative r…

OBJECTIVE: To compare the efficacy of different add-back regimens on hypoestrogenic symptoms during postoperative gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist treatment in endometriosis patients. METHODS: This prospective cohort study incl…

Post-operative cyclic oral contraceptive use after gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonist treatment effectively prevents endometrioma recurrence

Concerns for negative effects of oral contraceptives (OCs) on bone mineral density (BMD) in long-term users have been raised, since OCs suppress the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis. However, there have been still limited data regarding …

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Mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) is known to be a major negative regulator of autophagy. Recent studies have shown that mTOR activity is abnormally increased in endometriotic lesions. In endometriosis, abnormal mTOR activity may contrib…

We evaluated the laterality of primary endometrioma and characteristics of patients according to the laterality of recurrent endometrioma in 140 women with recurrent endometrioma after conservative surgery. Histologically confirmed recurren…