European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology

Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol · ISSN (e) 1872-7654 · 880 papers in corpus
observational 2018
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.08.576 ·PMID:30308401

OBJECTIVE: To explore the potential benefits of pregnancy on endometriosis symptoms. This is a retrospective study that has been conducted at Academic department and referral center for endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: We included all conserva…

observational 2018
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.01.025 ·PMID:29408742

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect of N312S polymorphism in the LHCGR gene as a predictive pharmacogenetic marker on clinical and embryological parameters and determining the need of r-hLH supplementation combine with r-hFSH in pat…

review 2018
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.08.577 ·PMID:30199816

Endometriosis, a hormone-dependant condition affecting around 10% of women in their reproductive years, has frequent consequences on fertility. Indeed, a proportion of women will require assisted reproductive techniques or surgery in order …

other 2018
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.04.004 ·PMID:29636244
meta-analysis 2018
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.04.019 ·PMID:29702449

The reported frequency of malignant diseases in unilocular cysts varies in different studies, giving conflicting results. To quantify the risk of malignancies among echoic and anechoic unilocular adnexal cysts, in premenopausal and postmeno…

other 2018
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.04.021 ·PMID:29704815

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the clinical features of thoracic endometriosis syndrome (TES) represented by catamenial pneumothorax (CP), endometriosis-related pneumothorax (ERP), and catamenial hemoptysis (CH). STUDY DESIGN: In this retrospecti…

other 2018
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.10.050 ·PMID:30449593

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other 2018
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.06.020 ·PMID:29945042

OBJECTIVES: Women's preferences for treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) are important in clinical decision-making. Our aim was to investigate whether women with HMB have a preference for treatment characteristics of the levonorgestr…

other 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.03.035 ·PMID:28376433

OBJECTIVE: To study the relation between junctional zone thickness (JZ) and success of implantation in IVF/ICSI cycles. STUDY DESIGN: A prospective study included 100 infertility patients undergoing ICSI. The long protocol was used in all …

lab-animal 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.05.018 ·PMID:28651148

OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is a multifactorial gynaecological disease in reproductive-age women. Endometriotic tissue is characterized by high prostaglandin levels and progesterone resistance. Human aldo-keto reductases (AKRs) convert progest…

observational 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.09.005 ·PMID:28915409

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between the androgen receptor (AR) cytosine, adenine, and guanine (CAG) repeat polymorphisms and endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: A prospective case-control, genetic association study was perform…

case-report 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.04.026 ·PMID:28455157
meta-analysis 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.09.011 ·PMID:28926725

OBJECTIVE(S): X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1(XRCC1) gene is one of the DNA repair pathway genes playing a vital role in endometriosis risk. Various studies have explored the association between them, however, the results remained …

review 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2016.01.032 ·PMID:26895700

The study of follicular fluid (FF) content nearby endometriomas may assist in elucidating pathophysiology, possible biomarkers related to this disease and the effect of endometriomas on ovarian physiology. As the question "how endometrioma …

observational 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2016.10.046 ·PMID:27836223

OBJECTIVE: Endometriosis is a multifactorial gynecological disease, whose pathogenesis is crucially dependent on angiogenesis, which is signaled via vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptor (VEGFR2). We hypothesize that si…

other 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.04.046 ·PMID:28495187
lab-animal 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.02.004 ·PMID:28242472

OBJECTIVE(S): To compare the most used types of surgical techniques, for peritoneal lesions management, to Plasmajet® (PJ), in term of healing and post-operative adhesion. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective, experimental animal study. Female pigs (…

other 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.11.024 ·PMID:29310043

OBJECTIVE: Cutaneous endometriosis is a rare condition that usually affects the abdominal wall in women with a history of open abdominal surgery. It has a characteristic clinical picture of a mass and pain associated with menstruation. The …

other 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.02.015 ·PMID:28231497

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of dienogest in controlling pain caused by deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE), its influence on the quality of live (QoL) of women affected by the disease, and the effect of the drug on the volume…

lab-animal 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.04.048 ·PMID:28482330

OBJECTIVE: C-C motif chemokine ligand 20 is thought to contribute to the development of endometriosis by recruiting Th17 lymphocytes into endometriotic foci. The present study investigated the effects of dienogest, a progesterone receptor a…

observational 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.04.027 ·PMID:28482242

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the role of telomerase activity in the development of endometriosis-related infertility by evaluation of the serum telomerase in eutopic and ectopic endometrial tissue. STUDY DESIGN: Eutopic endom…

other 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.07.006 ·PMID:28734640
other 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.07.014 ·PMID:28728071

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of dienogest (DNG) in preventing the occurrence of pain and endometriomas after laparoscopic resection of uterosacral ligaments (USLs) with deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). STUDY DESIGN: This retrosp…

other 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.03.011 ·PMID:28314166

OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of long-term postoperative dienogest (DNG) use for the treatment of endometriosis on bone mineral density (BMD). STUDY DESIGN: Sixty reproductive-aged women who underwent conserva…

other 2017
doi:10.1016/j.ejogrb.2017.03.033 ·PMID:28384540

OBJECTIVE: To study the efficacy of long-term treatment with norethindrone acetate (NETA) in patients with rectovaginal endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: This retrospective cohort study included 103 women with pain symptoms caused by rectovagin…