Liisu Saavalainen

No ORCID on file · 30 papers in corpus · active 2016-2026

Study types

  • article 19
  • other 7
  • dataset 2
  • letter 1
  • meta-analysis 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 29
  • mesh:D004715 17
  • die_deep_infiltrating 6
  • infertility 5
  • dyspareunia 1
  • bowel_endometriosis 1
  • adenomyosis 1
  • dysmenorrhea 1
other 2026
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2026.01.027

BACKGROUND: Understanding of the impact of endometriosis on adverse early pregnancy outcomes has evolved in recent decades and has been partly attributed to endocrine dysfunction and chronic inflammation. However, data from population-based…

other 2026
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2025.10.025

OBJECTIVE: To study first birth rates according to endometriosis subtype after surgical diagnosis among nulliparous women. DESIGN: Retrospective population-based cohort study using Finnish national registers, linking women with first surgi…

dataset 2026
·doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.31914953

This study aimed to examine the frequency and type of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) use after hysterectomy among women with surgically diagnosed endometriosis. A retrospective register-based cohort study identified women with a first sur…

dataset 2026
·doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.31914953.v1

This study aimed to examine the frequency and type of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) use after hysterectomy among women with surgically diagnosed endometriosis. A retrospective register-based cohort study identified women with a first sur…

other 2026
Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society ·doi:10.1080/13697137.2026.2639979

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine the frequency and type of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) use after hysterectomy among women with surgically diagnosed endometriosis. METHOD: A retrospective register-based cohort study identified wo…

other 2025
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deaf032

STUDY QUESTION: How does the burden of somatic disorders compare between women with surgically verified endometriosis diagnosed in adolescence or early adulthood, and matched women without a history of endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: Women …

other 2025
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.70022

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is associated with educational and occupational challenges, including absenteeism and reduced capacity to study and work. We aimed to investigate long-term educational and occupational outcomes among women diagno…

other 2025
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.70001

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is associated with pain and infertility. However, little is known about birth rate among women with endometriosis on population level. We studied whether women with endometriosis have lower birth rate than women …

other 2024
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2024.02.011

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis diagnosed in adults is associated with increased risk of various psychiatric disorders. However, little is known concerning psychiatric comorbidity and mortality due to external causes associated with endometriosis…

article 2023
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/dead120

STUDY QUESTION: Do women with endometriosis have lower first live birth rate before surgical diagnosis than women without verified endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: Compared to reference women, the incidence of first live birth was lower in wo…

meta-analysis 2023
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-023-01323-z

Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility. A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 controls of European and East Asian descent, identified 42 genom…

letter 2022
JAMA network open ·doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.47794

Louis Marcellin, MD, PhD; Francois Goffinet, MD, PhD; Elie Azria, MD, PhD; Anne Thomin, MD; Charles Garabedian, MD, PhD; Jeanne Sibiude, MD, PhD; Eric Verspyck, MD, PhD; Martin Koskas, MD, PhD; Pietro Santulli, MD, PhD; Jessica Rousseau, Ph…

article 2022
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.14419

INTRODUCTION: Increasing awareness of endometriosis in adolescents requires data on the nature of the disease and its management. Our objective was to investigate the subtypes of surgically confirmed endometriosis in adolescents (aged <20 y…

article 2021

Peer reviewed

article 2021
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0253270

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is associated with increased risk of clear cell ovarian cancer and has even suggested being an etiological factor for this cancer. Association between endometriosis and extraovarian clear cell cancers is unclear. T…

article 2021

Background Endometriosis is associated with increased risk of clear cell ovarian cancer and has even suggested being an etiological factor for this cancer. Association between endometriosis and extraovarian clear cell cancers is unclear. Th…

article 2020
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2020.07.051

ObjectiveTo study reproductive outcomes, and pregnancy and delivery complications after conservative or operative treatment of rectovaginal endometriosis during long-term follow-up.DesignRetrospective cohort study.SettingUniversity hospital…

article 2019
article 2019
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.13609

INTRODUCTION: The association between endometriosis and breast cancer is unclear. We assessed the risk of breast cancer in women with surgically verified endometriosis, with special focus on the age at cancer diagnosis, time from endometrio…

article 2019

STUDY QUESTION Is all-cause and cause-specific mortality increased among women with surgically verified endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER The all-cause and cause-specific mortality in midlife was lower throughout the follow-up among women with …

article 2019
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/dez074

STUDY QUESTION: Is all-cause and cause-specific mortality increased among women with surgically verified endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: The all-cause and cause-specific mortality in midlife was lower throughout the follow-up among women wit…

article 2019

The aim of this thesis was to assess the risk of cancer according to the types of endometriosis and the risk of death among women with surgically verified endometriosis.\n\nIn first register-based cohort study, all women with an initial end…

article 2018

We assessed the association of surgically verified endometriosis and risk of non-gynecological cancers according to the type of endometriosis (i.e., ovarian, peritoneal and deep infiltrating endometriosis). All diagnoses of endometriosis co…

article 2018
International journal of cancer ·doi:10.1002/ijc.31721

We assessed the association of surgically verified endometriosis and risk of non-gynecological cancers according to the type of endometriosis (i.e., ovarian, peritoneal and deep infiltrating endometriosis). All diagnoses of endometriosis co…

article 2018
Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/aog.0000000000002624

OBJECTIVE: To assess the risks of gynecologic cancer according to the type of endometriosis in women with surgically verified endometriosis. METHODS: This is a population-based study of women with surgically verified endometriosis retrieved…