Endometriosis affects 6-10% of women in reproductive age, 35-50% of whom experience pain, infertility or both. Mild cases are managed medically but surgery provides relief to women in pain. However, symptoms recur in 75% of cases within 2 y…
Endometriosis is characterized by presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus. Prevalence is estimated at 6-10% in the general female population and many patients experience pain and/or infertility. Diagnosis is achieved by laparoscop…
Objective: To evaluate the utility of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of adenomyosis and endometriosis. Methods: Medical records of 38 women who underwent laparoscopy or laparotomy less than 4 weeks after preoperative MRI …
In Europa wird die Idee der Qualitätsverbesserung auf dem Gebiet der Endometriose vertieft. Verschiedene "Task Forces" arbeiten mit zum Teil identischen Methoden am gleichen Ziel. Die Bildung spezialisierter Endometriosezentren verbunden mi…
Endometriosis is the second most frequent benign disease of the female of reproductive age. In spite of extensive research, the etiology of this disease is still largely enigmatic. A causal therapy has not been found yet. Several drug thera…
Endometriose ist eine der häufigsten gutartigen Erkrankungen der Frau und stellt oft eine Infertilitätsursache dar. Einerseits werden immunologische Faktoren, andererseits lokale mechanische Veränderungen dafür verantwortlich gemacht. Durch…
Endometriosis seems to be a common fertility barrier which is affected by immunological and local mechanical factors. The established use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) provides increasing knowledge about folliculogenesis, fert…
The ENZIAN-Score is presented as a new instrument to classify the deep infiltrating endometriosis. Especially the retroperitoneal part of the severe endometriosis is focussed on. In analogy to an oncological staging four different stages ar…
BackgroundEndometrial cancer represents a tumor entity with a great variation in its incidence throughout the world (range 1 to 25). This suggests enormous possibilities of cancer prevention due to the fact that the incidence is very much e…
Endometriosis is one of the main illnesses affecting women during their fertile age. Symptoms caused by endometriosis include dysmenorrhea, chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia, menstrual disorders and infertility. Apart from surgical and medic…
Tubal embryo transfer (TET), which involves an embryo transfer via the uterine tube, has a possible advantage over uterine embryo transfer (UET) due to more natural timing of embryo exposure to the uterine cavity. This study was carried out…