C. Exacoustós
ORCID: 0000-0003-3821-201X
· 141 papers in corpus
observational
2023
Abstract Background Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and endometriosis are chronic inflammatory diseases occurring in young women, sharing some clinical manifestations. We aimed to investigate, in a multidisciplinary approach, symptoms, typ…
2023
observational
2022
PURPOSE: The aim of the study was to assess the length of diagnostic delay of symptomatic endometriosis in Italy and analyse the presence of correlations between the socio-demographic status of patients and the clinical characteristics/type…
guideline
2022
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether the Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) features of adenomyosis need to be better defined and, if deemed necessary, to reach consensus on the updated definitions. METHODS: A modified Delphi pr…
observational
2022
OBJECTIVES: To diagnose endometriosis in young patients ≤25y with severe dysmenorrhea through specific ultrasonographic examination findings and to correlate the symptoms to its different forms: ovarian, deep infiltrating endometriosis, and…
2022
2022
The main diagnostic problems for endometriosis are firstly, the detection of the disease, especially in the absence of ovarian endometriotic cyst; and secondly, the evaluation of the extent of the disease in the pelvis. Transvaginal ultraso…
review
2022
Endometriosis is a chronic systemic disease that can cause pain, infertility and reduced quality of life. Diagnosing endometriosis remains challenging, which yields diagnostic delays for patients. Research on diagnostic test accuracy in end…
observational
2022
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate transvaginal sonography (TVS) findings after laparoscopic partial cystectomy for bladder endometriosis and to correlate postsurgical ultrasound findings with symptoms. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A retrospective study incl…
review
2022
Insertion of a LNG-Intra-uterine System (LNG-IUS) has many gynecological indications. The approved indications worldwide are contraception, treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding depending on not organic disease, and endometrial protection …
observational
2021
Abstract Study question The aim was to evaluate in patients who underwent embryo transfer (ET) in an oocyte donation cycle, the impact of adenomyosis, diagnosed by transvaginal sonographic (TVS), on the implantation rate. Summary answer We …
other
2021
Advances in preoperative diagnostics as well as in surgical techniques for the treatment of endometriosis, especially for deep endometriosis, call for a classification system, that includes all aspects of the disease such as peritoneal endo…
observational
2021
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the ultrasound features, types, and degrees of adenomyosis among adolescents and to correlate these findings with clinical symptoms DESIGN: A retrospective observational study. SETTING: Gynecological ultrasound…
observational
2020
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the ultrasonographic presence of different forms of endometriosis and the associated clinical symptoms in adolescent women. DESIGN: Retrospective observational study. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT(S): Two h…
2020
2020
To assess the inter-observer agreement on the Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) features among experts and provide improved definitions of the features to facilitate diagnosing adenomyosis. A modified Delphi procedure among…
other
2020
Adenomyosis is characterized by the presence of ectopic endometrium within the myometrium. This features lead to structural changes in the surrounding myometrium and endometrium resulting also in functional changes. Alterations in the myome…
2020
review
2019
The incidence of endometriosis in middle-aged women is not minimal compared to that in the reproductive age group. The treatment of affected women after childbearing age to the natural transition toward menopause has received considerably p…
observational
2019
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To correlate the type and degree of adenomyosis, scored through a new system based on the features of transvaginal sonography, to patients' symptoms and fertility. DESIGN: This is a multicenter, observational, prospective …
nonrandomized-trial
2019
To evaluate the effects of medical treatment with norethisterone acetate (NETA) on ultrasound signs of adenomyosis, pain symptoms and abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB). 40 women in fertile age with an ultrasound diagnosis of adenomyosis were …
observational
2019
To correlate type and degree of adenomyosis, scored through a new system based on transvaginal sonographic (TVS) features, to patient's symptoms and fertility. This is a multicentre, prospective study performed in two Endometriosis tertiary…
observational
2019
To assess the prevalence and ultrasound features of pelvic endometriosis in adolescents. This retrospective observational study included 238 adolescents (mean age 17.7 ±1.9 yrs.) referred to our Gynecological Clinic from January 2010 to Dec…
diagnostic-accuracy
2019
The objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of MRI-TVUS fusion imaging in patients with deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). This prospective study included 20 patients with deep endometriosis referred to our Gynecology Uni…
diagnostic-accuracy
2019
To determine the ultrasound feasibility and the interobserver reproducibility of a new classification of pelvic endometriosis based on an integration of the Enzian classification. 52 women with ultrasound features of endometriosis were enro…