Chang CH

No ORCID on file · 17 papers in corpus · active 2006-2025

Study types

  • article 3
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
  • adenomyosis 2
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
  • infertility 1
  • endometrioma 1
2025
Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) ·doi:10.3390/medicina61091571

Background and Objectives: Live birth rates in women with diminished ovarian reserve (AMH < 2.0 ng/mL) undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) remain under 20%. While Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) is often used to treat infertility and supp…

2025
BMC public health ·doi:10.1186/s12889-025-24213-x

INTRODUCTION: Infertility affects over 186 million people globally, with about 1 in 7 couples in developed nations experiencing it. Causes include age-related fertility decline and environmental factors. Air pollution is a potential factor,…

2025
In vivo (Athens, Greece) ·doi:10.21873/invivo.13963

Background/aimWhile in vitro fertilization (IVF) is an effective treatment for infertility, the live birth rate remains suboptimal. This study aimed to evaluate the factors influencing live birth rates in infertile women undergoing a second…

2024
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-024-56092-4

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is the most effective procedure to resolve male infertility, enhancing overall fertilization and pregnancy outcomes. However, it is important to note that fertilization failure (FF) can still occur in…

article 2024
Taiwanese journal of obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.tjog.2024.04.009

OBJECTIVE: To assess the treatment efficacy of dienogest specifically in the Taiwanese population with endometriosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eighty-eight patients diagnosed with endometriosis receiving at least 3 months of dienogest 2 mg o…

2024
Intestinal research ·doi:10.5217/ir.2023.00050

Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract and is characterized by alternating periods of inflammation and remission. Although UC incidence is lower in Taiwan than in Western countries, its impact remain…

2023
Cureus ·doi:10.7759/cureus.37469

Invasive lobular cancer (ILC) of the breast is the second most common type of invasive breast cancer. Clinical determination of the growth pattern of ILC of the breast is difficult. Furthermore, the ILC of the breast has a unique metastatic…

2023
Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA ·doi:10.1097/jcma.0000000000000933

BackgroundWe aimed to compare the outcomes of ovarian cystectomy (OC) performed by vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES) vs transumbilical laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS).MethodsWe retrospectively anal…

2023
Tzu chi medical journal ·doi:10.4103/tcmj.tcmj_95_23

ObjectivesAlopecia is a soft but meaningful complaint affecting women's physical and psychological health. Female alopecia (FA) has diverse etiologies. Nonetheless, FA is stereotyped as female pattern hair loss, also known as female androge…

2023
World journal of clinical cases ·doi:10.12998/wjcc.v11.i6.1410

BackgroundAcute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) is inflammation of the gallbladder without evidence of calculi. Although rarely reported, its etiologies include hepatitis virus infection (e.g., hepatitis A virus, HAV) and adult-onset Still's…

2019
Medicine ·doi:10.1097/md.0000000000014616

Hysterectomy is a potential risk factor for subsequent surgery for pelvic organ prolapse, especially when the prolapse exists before hysterectomy. Women without prolapse before hysterectomy may also experience prolapse after hysterectomy. T…

2019
Therapeutic advances in chronic disease ·doi:10.1177/2040622319875305

Dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-4), an incretin glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) degrading enzyme, contains two forms and it can exert various physiological functions particular in controlling blood glucose through the action of GLP-1. In diabe…

2018
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0201824

Previous studies indicated that progesterone can be withdrawn at the time of the first positive β-hCG test without compromising the clinical pregnancy outcome in normal ovarian responder. However, the effect of early stop of progesterone su…

article 2015
Medicine ·doi:10.1097/md.0000000000001278

To investigate the association between pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and endometrial cancer (EC).We conducted a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study, and data were obtained from the National Health Insurance Research D…

2014
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0104968

BackgroundInterindividual genetic variations of human DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs), which involve the methyl donor from the folate-related one-carbon metabolism pathway, are hypothesized as a risk factor for urothelial carcinoma (UC). The…

article 2014
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine ·doi:10.1111/jcmm.12300

Adenomyosis is an oestrogen-dependent disease characterized by the invasion of endometrial epithelial cells into the myometrium of uterus, and angiogenesis is thought to be required for the implantation of endometrial glandular tissues duri…

other 2006
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.2005.00363.x

PROBLEM: To determine the effects of macrophage on endometrial stromal cells (ESCs) in women with adenomyosis. METHOD OF STUDY: Eutopic endometrium was obtained and separated into single ESC in 10 women with adenomyosis (study group) and 1…