Antonio Farina
ORCID: 0000-0002-6862-1810
· 11 papers in corpus
observational
2024
Objective: To evaluate if moderate-severe endometriosis impairs uterine arteries pulsatility index (UtA-PI) during pregnancy when compared to unaffected controls. Design: Observational prospective cohort study. Setting: University-affiliate…
observational
2022
The aim of this study was to evaluate if moderate-severe endometriosis impairs uterine arteries pulsatility index (UtA-PI) during pregnancy when compared to unaffected controls. In this prospective cohort study, pregnant women with stage II…
observational
2021
The correlation between endometriosis and adverse obstetric outcomes is still under debate. A defective deep placentation has been proposed as potential pathogenic mechanisms. The present study aimed to investigate the impact of endometrios…
other
2016
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to compare the circulating placental growth factor (PlGF) concentration in women with and without endometrioma to verify the performance of this marker to diagnose the disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In…
2012
we describe sonographic findings suggestive of severe post-caesarean endometritis, a potentially life-threatening complication. vaginal sonography was performed in five patients with severe post-caesarean endometritis (study group) and in 3…
other
2012
PURPOSE: To quantify the mRNA levels of MMP-3, MMP-9, VEGF and Survivin in peripheral blood and the serum levels of CA-125 and Ca19-9 in women with and without endometriosis and to investigate the performance of these markers to differentia…
other
2011
other
2010
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Endometriosis is an invasive disease. Its diagnosis depends on laparoscopy, which is traumatic and associated with potential complications. The aim of this study was to develop a rapid, reliable, and less invasive diagnosti…
review
2004
Endometriosis is considered to be a possible precancerous disease. Pathologically, we observed malignant transformation of endometriosis to clear cell carcinoma or endometriotic carcinoma of the ovary, via the step of atypical endometriosis…
observational
2003
OBJECTIVE: Although ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (OCCA) and ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma (EC) are considered to be closely related to endometriosis, the mechanisms of carcinogenesis of these two malignancies and malignant transf…
observational
2001
OBJECTIVE: Steroid sulfatase (STS) is an important enzyme that converts biological inactive steroid sulfate to active free steroid. As estrogen is thought to play an important role in cell proliferation in gynecological cancer, the existenc…