Tao Xu
ORCID: 0000-0002-0799-8630
· 12 papers in corpus
observational
2026
PURPOSE: Preclinical evidence suggests that metformin may mitigate pelvic organ prolapse (POP) by altering the gene expression of human vaginal fibroblasts in a beneficial direction, but clinical validation is lacking. This study aimed to e…
2025
review
2024
Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent form of non-apoptotic cell programmed death, characterized by the disturbance of iron metabolism, accumulation of lipid peroxides and disruption of cellular antioxidant system. Ferroptosis induces oxidative …
case-report
2023
On October 23, 2020, a 69-year-old Chinese female patient was admitted to Yuncheng Hospital due to a history of postmenopausal bleeding and lower abdominal pain for 5 months. The HPV test and pathology results indicated the presence of inde…
observational
2021
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to investigate the clinical and pathological characteristics, and the recurrence and prognostic factors of borderline ovarian tumors (BOTs). METHODS: The data of 286 patients admitted to hospital and followed u…
observational
2020
BACKGROUND: Fecal incontinence (FI) has been shown to be a common symptom in Western countries; however, there is few researches focusing on its epidemic condition in Chinese women. We conducted this national population-based epidemiology s…
observational
2018
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse in obese Chinese women. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis of 3,105 obese women from an observat…
observational
2017
BACKGROUND: Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is a highly prevalent and often underestimated problem. However, large-scale, population-based epidemiological surveys of FSD are scarce in China. The present study was conducted to evaluate the p…
observational
2016
OBJECTIVE: To describe the anatomic variety of congenital cervical atresia and to explore the relationship between this disorder and pelvic endometriosis. METHODS: In a retrospective study, records were reviewed for 96 patients with a conf…
observational
2016
BACKGROUND: Female genital malformations represent miscellaneous deviations from normal anatomy. This study aimed to explore the clinical characteristics of patients who underwent surgery for genital tract malformations at Peking Union Medi…
other
2013
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the combined value of the platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and serum cancer antigen 125 (CA 125) can be used in diagnosing moderate to severe endometriosis. DESIGN: A retrospective study (Canadian Tas…
lab-animal
2007
Schistosomiasis remains a largely neglected, global health problem. The morbid pathology of the disease stems from the host's inflammatory response to parasite eggs trapped in host tissues. Long term host/parasite survival is dependent upon…