Carlos Augusto Bastos de Souza

In the present study, interleukin (IL)-10, IL-12, IL-17, and IL-23 levels were measured in serum and peritoneal fluid of women with minimal or mild endometriosis and compared with levels in controls without endometriosis. Higher IL-23 level…

This cross-sectional prospective study assessed follicular-fluid anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) concentrations in infertile patients with mild/minimal endometriosis during natural IVF. Thirty-two women participated in the study. Patients were…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the clinical history, particularly of the adolescence period, contains markers of deeply infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Universitary tertiary referral center. P…

Smoking habits did not influence either the risk of any form of endometriosis (superficial peritoneal endometriosis, ovarian endometriomas, and deep infiltrating endometriosis) and did not correlate with the revised American Fertility Socie…

Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a cytokine that belongs to the IL-1 family. Endometriosis is strongly associated with sub-fertility, and affects about 15% of women of reproductive age. IL-18 may favor the progression of endometriosis. The objecti…

Objective: Endometriosis affects between 10 and 15% of women of reproductive age. These patients have a 20 greater chance of being infertile and 30-60% of these patients are actually infertile. In this study, the prevalence of the foliculle…

PURPOSE: We describe a physiopathological model to the luteal insufficiency of infertile patients with mild/minimal endometriosis with normal hormone measurements in the early follicular phase. METHODS: We designed a case-control study wit…

Objetivos: dosar as imunoglobinas IgG, IgM e IgA no lquido peritoneal e no soro de mulheres frteis e infrteis com e sem endometriose; analisar comparativamente ambos os grupos correlacionando com os achados laparoscpicos de endometriose.Mat…