It is a 27 years old patient, childbirths three, menarche 13 years, regular cycles, with dismenorrea incapacitante twice a year, referring light dispareunia, which was refered a our hospital. She had been hospitalized three days ago present…
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a clinical disease that is associated with poor outcomes in in vitro fertilization (IVF) programs with a decrease in oocyte retrieval, oocyte quality, implantation and pregnancy rates. When an endometrioma is di…
Until today endometriosis continues to be a diagnostic challenge since the only way to confirm a diagnosis, based on clinical criteria, is through direct visualization of the endometriosis lesions. This has a direct impact in the developmen…
BACKGROUND: Currently, the most precise way of predicting uterine receptivity is the histopathological study through endometrial biopsy. Endometrial morphology and thickness are the factors most strongly associated with better pregnancy rat…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the antioxidant intake and the lipoperoxidation status in plasma and peritoneal fluid of women with endometriosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study was carried out in 48 women with endometriosis obtained at the Sterili…
OBJECTIVE: To compare double homologous versus only one intrauterine insemination (IUI) by stimulated cycle. PATIENTS AND METHOD: In a prospective, comparative study 138 patients were included, who underwent to intrauterine insemination; n…
Endometriosis syndrome affects 5% to 35% of women in reproductive age. Many theories have been suggested, but the true importance is the survival mechanism of endometriotic tissue, which seems to be related to a defect of the immunological …
BACKGROUND: The incidence and symptomatology of endometriosis vary according to the different populations. OBJECTIVES: To determine the incidence of endometriosis as well as the clinical and laparoscopic characteristics in infertile women w…
Although classically the antiprogestins have been used for the control of pregnancy diseases and adrenal function, in the medical literature are a plenty of papers about the treatment with progesterone antagonists of leiomyoma, breast cance…
Initially described by Buchbinder and Lipkoff in 1929, esplenosis is the transplant of the splenic heterotopy weave in the abdominal cavity. It is observed after the splenic traumatic rupture and appendectomy. It occurs also during the embr…
OBJECTIVE: To determine the immunology kind of response Th1 (cytotoxic) or Th2 (humoral) prevailing at peripheral and peritoneal environment at endometriosis women (ENW). STUDY DESIGN: Observational, transverse, analytical, retrospective, c…
OBJECTIVE: To determine the influence of sperm morphology, according to WHO criteria, on pregnancy rates of couples who were submitted to intra-uterine insemination (IUI). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective study that included 787 IUI cyc…
Chronic pelvic pain is a difficult handling medical and surgical condition and of transcendent importance to women who suffer from it. This condition has been associated to different diseases as endometriosis, adenomiosis, adnexal mass, pel…
Endometriosis, is a disorder affecting as many as 15% of women of childbearing age, is defined as the aberrant or heterotopic growth of glands and stroma identical to the lining uterus. Endometriosis, can be macroscopically identified gener…
INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis constitutes the growth of endometrial tissue in a place other than the uterine cavity. Its etiopathogenesis is unknown, although there is some evidence associating it with the decrease of cytotoxic activity in th…
A case report of external endometriosis (quite rare), pelvi-genital (vagina) and extrapelvic (on episiotomy scar) presentation. The profile of the patient was: 44 years old with residual right ovary after surgical procedure. The first sympt…
UNLABELLED: Even though endometriosis represents a reproductive health problem of the greatest importance due to the fact that it is one of the most common benign gynecological conditions, its aetiology is still unknown. The most accepted h…