Bruno Ramalho de Carvalho

Endometriosis-related pain and morbidity are assumed to cause substantial impact on quality of life. Due to its chronicity, the disease is expected to be clinically managed in a long-term individualized plan, considering easy access, cost-e…

We report a case of ultrasound-guided ex vivo oocyte retrieval for fertility preservation in a woman with bilateral borderline ovarian tumor, for whom conventional transvaginal oocyte retrieval was deemed unsafe because of the increased ris…

PURPOSE: To correlate ovarian reserve (OR) markers with response in assisted reproduction techniques (ART) and determine their ability to predict poor response among patients with endometriosis (EDT). METHODS: We evaluated ART cycles of 27 …

Although up to 60% of women with endometriosis complain of infertility, knowledge on the etiopathogeny of such an association is still limited.Mechanical obstruction to reproductive processes is the most accepted phenomenon to explain infer…

Abstract Objective To determine whether basal levels of follicle‐stimulating hormone (FSH) and anti‐müllerian hormone (AMH), antral follicle count (AFC), and the numbers of dominant follicles, oocytes, and mature oocytes retrieved after ova…

PURPOSE: to present a series of cases of umbilical endometriosis in patients in reproductive age, with no previous pelvic surgery. METHODS: four patients aged between 33 and 43 years were included in the study. They all presented umbilical …

Introdução: A avaliação da reserva ovariana em reprodução assistida (RA) busca identificar mulheres em que a exaustão folicular determine as dificuldades reprodutivas. Além da idade, a presença de causas outras de subfertilidade, como a end…

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is a benign, estrogen-dependent, chronic gynecological disorder associated with pelvic pain and infertility. The disease most commonly affects women during the reproductive age, although postmenopausal patients d…

Introduo: A avaliao da reserva ovariana em reproduo assistida (RA) busca identificar mulheres em que a exausto folicular determine as dificuldades reprodutivas. Alm da idade, a presena de causas outras de subfertilidade, como a endometriose…

Most endometriosis patients have fertility complaints and, in spite of the improvement of assisted reproduction procedures, outcomes remain unsatisfactory. This suggests that there are unknown ethiopathogenic influences that adversely affec…