Francesca Caprara

ORCID: 0009-0003-7917-1629 · 6 papers in corpus · active 2023-2026

Study types

  • review 4
  • meta-analysis 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 6
  • mesh:D004715 5
  • infertility 1
  • adenomyosis 1
  • dyspareunia 1
review 2026
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.70183

INTRODUCTION: Women with endometriosis frequently experience psychological and sexual concerns. Combined oral contraceptives (COCs) and progestin-only pills (POPs) represent first-line treatments for the disease, yet their potential negativ…

meta-analysis 2025
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deaf057

STUDY QUESTION: In patients with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKHS; population), is the presence of functional endometrium (FE) in uterine remnants (URs) (exposure), compared with the absence of FE in UR/absence of UR (comparis…

review 2024
Human reproduction open ·doi:10.1093/hropen/hoae045

STUDY QUESTION: What are the quantitative, qualitative, and temporal patterns of retrograde mentruation? SUMMARY ANSWER: The extreme quantitative and qualitative heterogeneity of the available studies prevents the definitive conclusion that…

meta-analysis 2024
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deae086

STUDY QUESTION: Does endometriosis prevalence differ in patients with obstructive Müllerian anomalies (OMA) versus those with nonobstructive Müllerian anomalies (NOMA), and in patients with NOMA versus those without Müllerian anomalies? SU…

review 2024
Reproductive biomedicine online ·doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2024.104345

A century ago, Sampson identified three uterine anatomical structures that may determine the amount of retrograde menstruation and the likelihood of the development of endometriosis: the cervix, the intramural portion of the fallopian tubes…

review 2023
BMC women's health ·doi:10.1186/s12905-023-02490-1

One-fourth to one-third of women with endometriosis receiving first-line hormonal treatment lacks an adequate response in terms of resolution of painful symptoms. This phenomenon has been ascribed to "progesterone resistance", an entity tha…