Hirahara F

No ORCID on file · 14 papers in corpus · active 1993-2016

Study types

  • article 8
  • other 2
  • case-report 1
  • review 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 11
  • infertility 2
  • dysmenorrhea 1
  • adenomyosis 1
article 2016
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0165609

BACKGROUND: There is currently no reliable serum biomarker for ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC), a highly lethal histological subtype of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Previously, using a proteome-based approach, we identified tissue fa…

article 2016
International journal of clinical oncology ·doi:10.1007/s10147-016-1035-4

BackgroundWe previously developed a new plasma amino acid profile-based index (API) to detect ovarian, cervical, and endometrial cancers. Here, we compared API to serum cancer antigen 125 (CA125) for distinguishing epithelial ovarian malign…

2016
Clinical case reports ·doi:10.1002/ccr3.577

An incarcerated gravid uterus is an uncommon complication of pregnancy. On rare occasions, an incarcerated gravid uterus resolves spontaneously even in the third trimester of pregnancy. Severe abdominal pain might be caused by spontaneous r…

article 2014
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research ·doi:10.1111/jog.12604

AIM: The aim of this study was to elucidate the risk of poor pregnancy outcomes in women with adenomyosis by comparing their outcomes to those of women without uterine abnormalities. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The subjects were 36 women diagnose…

article 2014
Journal of minimally invasive gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2014.04.014

Hemorrhagic ascites caused by endometriosis is extremely rare, and its treatment is under discussion. We report a case of recurrent endometriosis-related ascites treated with dienogest (DNG). A 35-year-old nulliparous Japanese woman with a …

article 2013
Reproductive medicine and biology ·doi:10.1007/s12522-013-0146-0

) levels suggest the presence of potential follicles. The EFS is a rare condition with an incidence of 0.5-7 % of women undergoing IVF treatments. Although there are many hypotheses as to the cause of EFS, including advanced ovarian age, dr…

2013
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080359

Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCC) is the second most common subtype of ovarian cancer after high-grade serous adenocarcinomas. CCC tends to develop resistance to the standard platinum-based chemotherapy, and has a poor prognosis when …

article 2013
Journal of proteome research ·doi:10.1021/pr400282j

Of all of the epithelial ovarian cancers (EOC), clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA) has the worst clinical prognosis. Furthermore, the conventional EOC biomarker CA125 is more often negative in CCA than in other subtypes of EOC. This study soug…

article 2012
Cancer biology & therapy ·doi:10.4161/cbt.20084

Inflammatory cells play important roles in progression of solid neoplasms including ovarian cancers. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) contribute to angiogenesis and immune suppression by modulating microenvironment. Ovarian cancer develo…

other 2011
Gynecologic oncology ·doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.05.034

OBJECTIVES: Carcinogenesis of the ovary is often associated with endometriosis. We previously demonstrated that antitumor chemokine receptor CXCR3 was upregulated both in endometriosis and ovarian cancers. Currently, little is known about t…

case-report 2008
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2008.02.012

We report a rare case in which a cystic lesion in the cervix, caused by endometriosis, resulted in a massive vaginal hemorrhage. Cervical endometriosis is relatively common and is usually considered a mild condition. However, we report a ca…

other 2006
Reproductive medicine and biology ·doi:10.1111/j.1447-0578.2006.00124.x

Aim:  To determine the best treatment for unexplained infertility. Methods:  A retrospective study was used to examine Japanese women with unexplained infertility that had undergone laparoscopy. The main outcome measure of the study was the…

review 2001
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine
article 1993
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/j.1600-0897.1993.tb00575.x

PROBLEM: Our aim was to investigate endometrial antigens involved in the autoimmunity of endometriosis. METHOD: We detected endometrial antigens against which autoantibodies directed with Western blotting. RESULTS: Thirteen (72.2%), 14 (77.…