Tomoyuki Fujii

No ORCID on file · 71 papers in corpus · active 2001-2021

Study types

  • article 60
  • other 6
  • review 2
  • case-report 1
  • dataset 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 53
  • endometrioma 17
  • adenomyosis 16
  • infertility 4
  • dysmenorrhea 4
  • thoracic_endometriosis 1
  • bowel_endometriosis 1
  • disambig:endometritis 1
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 1
article 2016
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/aji.12489

PROBLEM: Resistance to apoptosis, together with inflammatory and invasive activity, contributes to the pathogenesis of endometriosis; therefore, approaches that can safely enhance apoptosis in endometriotic tissue are highly sought after as…

article 2016
·doi:10.5301/je.5000257

Endometriosis is recognized as an inflammatory disease in which inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin (IL)-1β and TNFα, play important roles. Immunological factors are also suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of endometriosis…

article 2016
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research ·doi:10.1111/jog.13056

AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hypointensity on T2 star-weighted imaging (T2*WI), which is useful for detecting hemosiderin, in endometriomas and other ovarian tumors. The efficacy of detecting adhesions aro…

article 2015
·doi:10.1016/j.jri.2015.09.015
article 2015
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.03.023
case-report 2015
Journal of minimally invasive gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2015.04.023

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the frequency of pneumothorax after laparoscopic surgery and to identify possible correlations to endometriosis. DESIGN: Retrospective review. SETTING: Tokyo University Hospital between 2006 and 2013. PATIEN…

other 2015
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology ·doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2014.11.033

OBJECTIVE: To identify the characteristics of cases and fibroids that will indicate which patients should undergo myomectomy to improve fertility. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We recruited patients (n=101) who had undergone myomectomy to improve…

article 2015
article 2015
Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics ·doi:10.1007/s10815-015-0457-7
review 2015
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.08.026
article 2015
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/aji.12426

PROBLEM: The proportion of CD4+ T lymphocytes, Th1, Th2, Th17, and regulatory T cells in endometriosis lesions and peripheral blood are not known. METHOD OF STUDY: Lymphocytes were isolated from endometriosis lesions (n = 10) and endometriu…

article 2015
·doi:10.5180/jsgoe.31.114

Objective: To evaluate the relative difficulty of laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH) for adenomyosis by categorizing them into four subtypes.Methods: We retrospectively collected 56 cases of adenomyosis treated by laparoscopy at our hospital fr…

article 2015
article 2014
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.3109/09513590.2014.911279

Dienogest is a novel progestin that is highly selective for progesterone receptors and inhibits endometriosis. However, it remains unknown how the administration of dienogest to patients with endometriosis impacts on their lesion tissues. T…

article 2014
Gynecological endocrinology : the official journal of the International Society of Gynecological Endocrinology ·doi:10.3109/09513590.2014.926882

Adenomyosis is a common disorder in premenopausal women that causes dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain and menorrhagia. Considering that adenomyosis is an estrogen-dependent disease, the medical treatment is based on this hormone. Effective and well…

article 2014
BMC women's health ·doi:10.1186/1472-6874-14-104

BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections are potential complications following open myomectomy. These infections usually develop immediately after the surgery, and are most often located in the myometrium. Pyogenic cervical cysts are rare and h…

article 2014
American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) ·doi:10.1111/aji.12282

PROBLEM: Immune tolerance to endometriotic cells is important to promote endometriosis. Tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) enhances immune tolerance by catabolizing tryptophan to kynurenine. We studied whether interleukin-1β (IL-1β), a typica…

article 2014
other 2014
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research ·doi:10.1111/jog.12252

AIM: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease. Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) plays a role in regulation of inflammation. The role of SIRT1 in endometriosis remains unknown. We here addressed the anti-inflammatory effects of SIRT1 on endometriosi…

other 2013
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073085

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) play a role in controlling pathological inflammatory reactions. Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue on the peritoneum and an exaggerated inflammatory envir…

article 2001
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research ·doi:10.1111/j.1447-0756.2001.tb01255.x

Bowel endometriosis manifesting with ileus is difficult to diagnose, often requiring laparotomy for diagnosis and treatment. We report here a case of ileo-cecal endometriosis causing bowel obstruction. A diagnosis of intestinal endometriosi…