Fertility and sterility

OBJECTIVE: To report a rare presentation of bilateral endometriomas in an adolescent and describe characteristics of endometriomas. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: Major academic medical center. PATIENT(S): An 18-year-old G0 presented with…

This study investigates the association of rheumatoid arthritis-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms in endometriosis. We found an association of CCL21 (rs2812378) and HLA-DRB1 (rs660895) with moderate to severe endometriosis.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of peritoneal fluid (PF) of patients with endometriosis on the cytoskeleton of metaphase II oocytes and correlate the results with the stage of endometriosis and the duration of infertility. DESIGN: Prospec…

OBJECTIVE: To compare endometrial stromal cell invasion from women with and without adenomyosis and the effect of myometrial cells using a three-dimensional coculture. DESIGN: Case-controlled blinded comparison. SETTING: University depart…

To test the hypothesis that bacterial contamination of menstrual blood could be a local biologic event in the development of endometriosis, menstrual blood was cultured and bacterial endotoxin was measured in menstrual blood and peritoneal …

OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that specific proteins and peptides are expressed differentially in eutopic endometrium of women with and without endometriosis and at specific stages of the disease (minimal, mild, moderate, or severe) dur…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the biochemical parameters of the erythrocyte response to diamide-induced oxidative stress, alone or as adjuncts to serum values of CA-125 and human epididymal secretory protein E4 (HE4), in the diagnosis and study…

OBJECTIVE: To compare high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) with CRP as a soluble serum marker for the diagnosis of women with endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective nonrandomized controlled trial (Canadian Task Force classification II-…

ObjectiveTo demonstrate expression and regulation of prokineticins (PROKs) and their receptors (PROKRs) in fallopian tube (FT) from women who are not pregnant and women with ectopic pregnancy (EP).DesignTissue analysis.SettingLarge United K…

OBJECTIVE: To report a case of endometriosis degenerated into clear cell carcinoma with positron-emission tomography (PET) scan staging. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT(S): A 43-year-old woman diagnosed with en…

OBJECTIVE: To develop a chimeric human/mouse model of experimental endometriosis for the examination of the role of human immune cells in this disease. DESIGN: Laboratory-based study. SETTING: University-affiliated medical center. PATIEN…

The effects of water collected from an industrially polluted river in a rat model with surgically induced endometriosis were investigated in this preliminary study. Exposure to industrially polluted water resulted in regressed endometriotic…

OBJECTIVE: To correlate angiotensin II (AngII) receptor expression by granulosa-lutein (GL) cells from gonadotropin-stimulated follicles with infertility diagnosis and IVF parameters. DESIGN: The mRNA of angiotensin receptors type 1 (AT1) …

OBJECTIVE: To report a case of florid endometriosis. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT(S): A 53-year-old postmenopausal woman with a 10-cm retroperitoneal mass comprised of endometriosis causing hydroureteronephr…

OBJECTIVE: To study the expression of mRNA for Kit ligand 1 (KL1), KL2, FSH receptor (FSHR), pregnancy-associated plasma protein (PAPP) and P450 in granulosa-lutein cells from IVF patients and its relationship with the infertility diagnosis…

This study evaluated for the first time the relationship between interleukin-18 (IL-18) C607A genotypes and endometriosis in 135 women with endometriosis and 84 controls. In the study population, IL-18 -607∗A homozygote and A allele were po…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the human endometrial transcriptome during embryonic implantation. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: Tertiary fertility center. PATIENT(S): A 24-year-old woman who inadvertently became pregnant during an endometrial b…

OBJECTIVE: To report a case of hematometra following laparoscopic resection of rectovaginal endometriosis extending to the cervix. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT(S): A 31-year-old woman with endometriosis and …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, the associated causes of subfertility, and the outcomes of the first IVF and embryo transfer treatment cycles in these infertile couples. DESIGN: A retrospective co…

HOXA10 gene expression is decreased in the secretory phase endometrium of women with adenomyosis. Diminished expression of HOXA10 is a potential mechanism explaining decreased implantation observed in women with adenomyosis.

In an animal endometriosis model, the administration of hyaluronic acid (HA) reagent significantly suppressed the formation of endometriotic lesions in both number and weight. This effect was found when HA treatment was conducted at the tim…

Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) protein chip array technology was used to detect biomarkers of eutopic endometrium in endometriosis patients. Five potential biomarkers (6,898 m/z,…

We demonstrate the use of computerized tomography colonography for the imaging of intestinal endometriosis to facilitate preoperative management in our hospital setting.

OBJECTIVE: To characterize imatinib's effect on endometrial stromal cell (ESC) attachment, proliferation, and invasion in modeled peritoneum. DESIGN: In vitro study. SETTING: Academic medical center. PATIENT(S): Twelve normally cycling w…