Confino E
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· 10 papers in corpus
· active 1984-2008
Study types
- article 7
- other 2
- review 1
Condition tags
- endometriosis 9
- infertility 2
- bladder_endometriosis 1
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Frequent coauthors
- Edmond Confino 10
- Norbert Gleicher 4
- Gleicher N 4
- Lin Z 3
- Jan Friberg 3
- Bulun SE 3
- Friberg J 3
- Cheng YH 3
- Albert El-Roeiy 3
- el-Roeiy A 3
review
2008
Endometriosis is a common and chronic disease characterized by persistent pelvic pain and infertility. Estradiol is essential for growth and inflammation in endometriotic tissue. The complete cascade of steroidogenic proteins/enzymes includ…
article
2007
Steroid receptors in the stromal cells of endometrium and its disease counterpart tissue endometriosis play critical physiologic roles. We found that mRNA and protein levels of estrogen receptor 2 (ESR2) were strikingly higher, whereas leve…
article
2007
CONTEXT: Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease. Steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1), a transcriptional factor essential for activation of multiple steroidogenic genes for estrogen biosynthesis, is undetectable in normal endometrial strom…
article
1992
Proximal, distal, and peritubal damage can be caused by a number of pathologic processes such as inflammation, endometriosis, and surgical trauma. The diagnosis of tubal occlusion relies primarily on hysterosalpingography, hysteroscopy, and…
article
1990
Patients with endometriosis demonstrate autoantibody abnormalities in their peripheral blood. Whether such abnormalities can also be detected in the peritoneal cavity, has not been established. We therefore investigated autoantibodies to 6 …
article
1989
Abnormal polyclonal B cell activation has been demonstrated in patients with endometriosis. To determine whether the noted B cell abnormalities were primarily a feature of the disease endometriosis or its manifestations of infertility and p…
article
1989
Abnormal lupus anticoagulant (LA) levels, as measured with the activated partial tissue thromboplastin and tissue thromboplastin inhibition tests, are associated with a predisposition toward thromboembolic phenomena. Thromboelastogram (TEG)…
other
1987
Among 59 laparoscopically staged endometriosis patients, 28.8% tested positive for antinuclear antibody. Of 44 patients, 45.5% were lupus anticoagulant positive (greater than 1.3) and 20.5% were within a borderline range (1.2-1.3). Antinucl…
article
1985
The development of endometriosis in the area of a previous bladder wall injury is described. This represents the first documented case of endometriosis occurring after such injury.
other
1984
Fifty two consecutive women underwent microsurgical reconstruction of the tubes. Thirty one percent conceived and 19% delivered live infants. Medical history suggestive of pelvic infection was obtained in 44% of the women. Fifty four percen…