Study types
- article 36
- other 4
- case-report 1
- review 1
Condition tags
- endometriosis 38
- mesh:D004715 26
- endometrioma 8
- adenomyosis 5
- die_deep_infiltrating 2
- infertility 2
- dysmenorrhea 1
- mesh:D004412 1
- chronic_pelvic_pain 1
- mesh:D004414 1
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Frequent coauthors
- Jo Kitawaki 39
- Takahide Mori 29
- Fumitake Ito 27
- Akemi Koshiba 20
- Yukiko Tanaka 15
- Hisashi Kataoka 12
- Hiroyuki Okimura 11
- Yosuke Tarumi 10
- Osamu Takaoka 10
- Hiroshi Matsushima 9
other
2025
OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease wherein isoflavones interact with estrogen receptors. Daidzein-rich isoflavone aglycones (DRIAs) have been shown to inhibit cell proliferation and aromatase activity in vitro and in …
article
2024
Partial cystectomy is often performed to treat bladder endometriosis. However, there are no reports of bladder rupture more than 10 years after cystectomy. A 55-year-old woman with a history of laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy a…
article
2023
Menstrual blood, containing high iron levels, can undergo retrograde transport into the abdominal cavity. Excess iron causes oxidative stress and inflammation. Iron metabolism is regulated by hepcidin, and serum hepcidin levels are increase…
article
2023
Objectives: The effects of laparoscopic surgical management in women with stage III/IV endometriosis remain controversial. The standard extent of resection for stage III/IV endometriosis with deep endometriosis to treat endometriosis-associ…
article
2022
article
2022
article
2022
CONTEXT: Progesterone resistance including progesterone receptor (PR) deficiency contributes to the pathophysiology of endometriosis; however, whether the PR expression levels in ovarian endometrioma (OE) correlate with the postoperative re…
article
2021
PROBLEM: Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs), a recently discovered family of innate immune cells, are responsible for the early immune response, and control both innate and adapted immune system via cytokine secretion. The role of ILCs in endomet…
article
2020
Chronic inflammation in endometriosis is associated with increased risk of future cardiovascular disease; however, no studies have investigated the cardiovascular risk of women who have undergone hormonal therapy for endometriosis. We inves…
article
2020
PROBLEM: Inflammation and immune responses play crucial roles in the development of endometriosis. Although interleukin-9 (IL-9) has a pro-inflammatory function in chronic inflammatory diseases, its function in endometriosis remains unknown…
article
2020
BACKGROUND: The Vagi-Pipe® is a useful device for performing a total laparoscopic hysterectomy. The conventional model of the Vagi-Pipe® is unable to grasp the uterus during colpotomy for recovery of the resected uterus. However, the modifi…
article
2020
Laparoscopic surgery has become the gold standard treatment for endometriosis. Surgical treatment of deep endometriosis with colorectal involvement is challenging. It requires complete surgical excision of lesions despite a high risk of com…
article
2019
STUDY QUESTION: Is a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α)-mediated pathway involved in the development of endometriosis? SUMMARY ANSWER: PGC-1α plays critical roles in inflammation and cell proliferation of e…
case-report
2019
Malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a life-threatening clinical syndrome of hypermetabolism involving skeletal muscle. Susceptibility to MH is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner. Its common trigger is exposure to volatile anesthetic agent…
article
2018
article
2018
AIM: We aimed to evaluate whether hormonal therapy immediately after postsurgical recurrence of ovarian endometrioma controls disease progression and can be an alternative therapeutic option to avoid multiple repeat surgeries. METHODS: We e…
article
2017
article
2016
Copyright © 2014 Sakura Ijichi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is pro…
other
2016
OBJECTIVE: To determine the effectiveness of a 24/4-day regimen of a low-dose combination drospirenone-ethinylestradiol oral contraceptive in alleviating perimenstrual symptoms among Japanese women with endometriosis. METHODS: The present …
article
2016
article
2016
article
2016
article
2016
article
2015
Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease. Abnormally biosynthesized estrogens in endometriotic tissues induce the growth of the lesion and worsen endometriosis-associated pelvic pain. Dienogest (DNG), a selective progesterone receptor…
article
2015
•Malignant transformation of deep infiltrating endometriosis involving the bladder is quite rare.•We review eight relevant cases which have been reported.•This is the second case fulfilling Sampson and Scott criteria.