Fertility and sterility

OBJECTIVE: To present a case of successful laparoscopic resection of adrenal endometriosis. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University Hospital. PATIENT(S): Forty-eight-year-old woman with left-sided abdominal and flank pain. INTERVENTION…

Recent studies suggest that acid phosphatase locus 1 (ACP1) could be involved in T-cell antigen receptor signaling and in immune disorders. The present study shows that the ACP1( *)C allele, which is associated with elevated enzymatic activ…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the involvement of inflammation in the development of endometriosis. DESIGN: Case-control study to investigate the association between endometriosis and four inflammation-related genes: interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, …

A prospective comparative clinical trial was done in a tertiary referral center for the treatment of endometriosis in 10 patients with bladder detrusor endometriosis: five were treated with a continuous oral contraceptive (OC) and another f…

OBJECTIVE: To develop a model that uses individual and lesion characteristics to help surgeons choose lesions that have a high probability of containing histologically confirmed endometriosis. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of prospectively co…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether focal adhesion kinase (FAK) expression is altered in eutopic endometrium of women with endometriosis. DESIGN: Experimental study using human endometrial tissue. SETTING: Academic research center. PATIENT…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the expression of claudin-3 and claudin-4 in the eutopic and ectopic endometrium of women with endometriosis and to evaluate the role of claudin-3 and claudin-4 in the pathogenesis of endometriosis. DESIGN: Cross-…

OBJECTIVE: To explore diaphragmatic lesions that are potentially associated with catamenial pneumothorax by using an advanced flexible laparoscope with wide optic angle. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT(S): A 30…

OBJECTIVE: To present our experience with a new technique for laparoscopic rectosigmoid resection in patients with endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective collaborative cohort study. SETTING: Gynecologic departments of two university hospitals…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical relevance of endometriosis-associated nerve fibers in the development of endometriosis-associated symptoms. DESIGN: Prospective nonrandomized study. SETTING: University hospital endometriosis center.…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role(s) of colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF-1) on the development of early endometriosis in a murine model by comparing rate of lesion formation in mice [1] homozygous for a CSF-1 mutation versus syngeneic cont…

OBJECTIVE: To compare three types of equipment during hysteroscopic resection. DESIGN: A randomized study. SETTING: Women's clinic at Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. PATIENT(S): Two hundred premenopausal women with menorrhagi…

OBJECTIVE: To describe a case of vulvar endometriosis in a teenager after a history of vulvar ulcers in the same location. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University medical center. PATIENT(S): A 13-year-old girl with a history of vulvar u…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze a hypothesis regarding the pathogenesis of endometriosis. DESIGN: Retrospective study. SETTING: Two academic endometriosis referral centers. PATIENT(S): We evaluated operative and pathologic reports of 251 women who…

This was a preliminary study to determine the effect of aromatase inhibitors in preventing the flare induced by GnRH agonist (GnRH-a) in women with endometriosis (n = 9) or leiomyomata (n = 4) who were given letrozole on the first 5 days of…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether an associated ovarian endometrioma is a marker for severity of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). DESIGN: Observational study between June 1992 and December 2005. SETTING: University tertiary referral…

PTPN22 is currently one of the few known shared-autoimmunity genes and is therefore a candidate marker for endometriosis. Our data show that female carriers of the PTPN22( *)T variant are significantly more susceptible to endometriosis than…

We investigated whether three polymorphisms in the matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2; -1306C-->T and -735C-->T) and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2; -418G-->C) genes were related to the risk of endometriosis in reproductive-…

OBJECTIVE: To assess cycle outcome among day 5 and day 6 cryopreserved frozen-thawed blastocyst embryo transfers (FBET). DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Military-based assisted reproduction technology (ART) center. PATIENT(S…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the type and etiopathogenic role of infectious agents detected in endometrial cultures obtained from women with chronic endometritis (CE). DESIGN: Prospective controlled study. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT…

OBJECTIVE: To provide a summary of the actual knowledge about the clinical factors affecting the oocyte recipient (other than those associated with uterine cavity abnormalities) on the outcome of oocyte donation cycles. DESIGN: Review of t…

Cyclooxegenase-2 expression was evaluated by immunohistochemistry in endometrioma tissue samples taken from 109 patients, of whom 53 had recurrence by 30 months after surgery and 56 did not. Cyclooxegenase-2 overexpression, along with previ…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether CYP17 T>C polymorphism and polymorphisms C1558T and Val80 of CYP19 are related to endometriosis. DESIGN: Clinical study. PATIENT(S): Women affected with endometriosis (n = 104) and control group (n = 86).…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the ovarian reserve and follicular cohort of infertile patients with minimal/mild endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT(S): Patients were divided into two groups: group I, …

OBJECTIVE: To compare the value of physical examination, transvaginal sonography (TVS), rectal endoscopic sonography (RES), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the assessment of different locations of deep infiltrating endometriosis (D…