Mee‐Ran Kim

ORCID: 0000-0003-4492-0768 · 63 papers in corpus · active 2001-2025

Study types

  • article 54
  • review 6
  • letter 2
  • other 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 41
  • adenomyosis 13
  • mesh:D004715 13
  • infertility 7
  • chronic_pelvic_pain 4
  • dysmenorrhea 4
  • die_deep_infiltrating 4
  • endometrioma 3
  • mesh:D017699 2
  • mesh:D004412 1
article 2025
·doi:10.1016/j.jvir.2024.12.440
article 2025
·doi:10.1002/ijgo.71107

OBJECTIVE: The prevalence of steatotic liver disease (SLD) is increasing globally. Endometriosis, affecting up to 10% of women, is a major cause of infertility. While associations between endometriosis and metabolic syndrome have been repor…

article 2024
Journal of minimally invasive gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2024.02.004

This group was formed out of the conviction that endometriosis research has not progressed at a pace in proportion to disease severity and the negative impact on women's quality of life. Furthermore, advancement in our understanding of this…

article 2024
·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2024.02.008
letter 2024
Journal of minimally invasive gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2024.04.008
article 2024
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics ·doi:10.1002/ijgo.15550

OBJECTIVE: Adenomyosis is associated with female infertility worldwide. With improvements in imaging methods, such as pelvic magnetic resonance imaging, the diagnosis and treatment of adenomyosis have changed. This study aimed to evaluate t…

article 2023
Diagnostics ·doi:10.3390/diagnostics13172749

This study aimed to explore the correlation between MRI features, clinical risk factors, and symptoms associated with adenomyosis. Overall, 112 patients with pathologically confirmed adenomyosis were included in this retrospective study. MR…

review 2023
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics ·doi:10.1002/ijgo.15142

Endometriosis should be diagnosed as early as possible in the continuum of care; but substantial delays of approximately 6-8 years between symptom onset and endometriosis diagnosis have been widely reported. With the purpose of improving th…

other 2023
The Journal of Pathology ·doi:10.1002/path.6178

Endometriosis consists of ectopic endometrial epithelial cells (EEECs) and ectopic endometrial stromal cells (EESCs) mixed with heterogeneous stromal cells. To address how endometriosis-constituting cells are different from normal endometri…

review 2022
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) ·doi:10.3390/healthcare10122515

This work provides consensus guidance regarding clinical diagnosis and early medical management of endometriosis within Asia. Clinicians with expertise in endometriosis critically evaluated available evidence on clinical diagnosis and early…

article 2022
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1007/s43032-021-00787-w

Several clinical trials in women with endometriosis demonstrated that dienogest reduces endometrial lesions and improves health-related quality of life (HRQoL). To assess HRQoL in dienogest-treated patients in real-world setting, we conduct…

article 2022
·doi:10.60692/z8whg-3sb76

Several clinical trials in women with endometriosis demonstrated that dienogest reduces endometrial lesions and improves health-related quality of life (HRQoL). To assess HRQoL in dienogest-treated patients in real-world setting, we conduct…

article 2022
·doi:10.60692/gqf23-1bp94

Several clinical trials in women with endometriosis demonstrated that dienogest reduces endometrial lesions and improves health-related quality of life (HRQoL). To assess HRQoL in dienogest-treated patients in real-world setting, we conduct…

article 2022
·doi:10.7150/ijms.75203

Background: Uterine leiomyoma is the most common benign tumor in women of reproductive age, and it can cause infertility. The growth of uterine leiomyoma is mediated by various steroids and growth factors. The purpose of this study was to e…

article 2021
Obstetrics & gynecology science ·doi:10.5468/ogs.21025

OBJECTIVE: In this video, we present our novel technique for myometrial defect closure following robot-assisted laparoscopic adenomyomectomy. METHODS: A narrated video demonstration of our technique. Our patient was a 47-year-old single wom…

article 2020
BMC health services research ·doi:10.1186/s12913-020-5016-y

BACKGROUND: The look-back period is needed to define baseline population for estimating incidence. However, short look-back period is known to overestimate incidence of diseases misclassifying prevalent cases to incident cases. The purpose …

article 2020
Journal of epidemiology ·doi:10.2188/jea.je20200002

BACKGROUND: The incidence and prevalence of endometriosis remain unclear due to diagnostic difficulties. Especially, there has been little information regarding the population-based epidemiology of endometriosis. The purpose of this study i…

article 2019
·doi:10.60692/v9r87-9ce55

Dienogest has been shown to substantially improve endometriosis-associated symptoms such as debilitating chronic pelvic pain, and in turn, health-related quality of life (HRQoL). To date, there is no data on patient-reported outcomes reflec…

article 2019
·doi:10.60692/41gzg-zzt23

Dienogest has been shown to substantially improve endometriosis-associated symptoms such as debilitating chronic pelvic pain, and in turn, health-related quality of life (HRQoL). To date, there is no data on patient-reported outcomes reflec…

review 2019
Gynecology and minimally invasive therapy ·doi:10.4103/gmit.gmit_83_18

AIM: With a perplexing pathogenesis and an incidence rate of approximately 10% among women of reproductive age, endometriosis affects more women in Asia than in any other continent in the world. This paper reviews the available data on the …

article 2019
·doi:10.5124/jkma.2019.62.4.209

The development of robotic technology has facilitated the application of minimally invasive techniques for complex gynecologic surgery. Robot-assisted gynecologic surgery has grown exponentially since receiving Food and Drug Administration …

letter 2018
Histopathology ·doi:10.1111/his.13524

The authors state that there is no conflict of interest.

review 2018
Obstetrics & gynecology science ·doi:10.5468/ogs.2018.61.5.553

Endometriosis is one of the most common diseases in reproductive ages, and it affects patients' quality of life and fertility. However, few Korean guidelines are available for the evaluation and management of endometriosis. Korean Society o…

article 2018
International journal of medical sciences ·doi:10.7150/ijms.28470

Research Question: To evaluate the effect of mistletoe on the cell viability of patients with endometriosis, the expression levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) were measured, and the change in the expression level of VEGF fo…

article 2018
·doi:10.3892/ol.2018.9565

. The objective of the present study was to analyze MIS/AMH type II receptor (MIS/AMHRII) protein and mRNA expression in healthy human endometria compared with patients with endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancer, providing a founda…