Acta Europaea fertilitatis

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate whether fluoxetine given to castrated and noncastrated rats caused hyperprolactinemia and its effects with respect to adenomyosis. DESIGN: Fluoxetine, a serotonin reuptake inhibitor, was g…

To evaluate the role of Chlamydial serology and hysterosalpingography (HSG) in predicting tubal disease, alone or combined with versus laparoscopy, which is known to be the gold standard but an invasive procedure. In 135 patients who suffer…

The aim of the present study is to compare the outcome of GnRH analog treatment versus expectant management in infertile patients with minimal and mild endometriosis. From January 1987 to December 1990, 14 patients with stage I and II endom…

Objectives of our work were to determine whether the presence of endometriosis, stage and the activity of the disease influence the sperm-peritoneal fluid (PF) incubation test and, possibly, whether a GnRH agonist (GnRHa) treatment in these…

CA-125, in the past considered as marker of ovarian neoplasms, has been proven to be useful successively in several obstetric-gynecologic physiopathologic conditions (Endometriosis, beginning pregnancy, PID), united by the common characteri…

Thirteen patients affected by endometriosis have been treated with GnRH analogue Buserelin. CA-125 serum levels have been monitored before, during and after treatment. Analysis of data suggests the hypothesis of an individualized follow up …

Two-hundred-and-six patients newly diagnosed to have endometriosis at laparoscopy were evaluated in order to see if endometriosis-associated symptoms are proportional to the extent of the disease, as assessed using the Revised American Fert…

Clinical and experimental evidence showed an increased concentration of prostaglandins in peritoneal fluid in cases of endometriosis. The aim of this study was to verify whether an antiprostaglandin drug can restore fertility in cases of en…

In the period 1985-1988 23 infertile patients with pelvic endometriosis underwent conservative surgery with microsurgical technique. 8.7% (only 2 women) of the patients were in 2nd stage, 43.5% in 3rd stage and 47.8% in 4th stage of the Ame…

Many experimental and clinical findings indicate a disimmune pathogenesis of infertility associated with endometriosis. The most important modifications of cell-mediated immunity in endometriosis concern macrophage activity, increased both …

Endoscopic evaluation of the tubal mucosa has been shown to be an important prognostic factor in predicting the probability of a subsequent intrauterine pregnancy. A recent classification of the tubal mucosa lesions allows uniformity of eva…

The Authors compare the efficiency of laparoscopic treatment with laparotomic surgical management of endometriosis. When the disease causes mechanical distortions and adnexal adhesions, there is an obvious explanation for infertility; in th…

Serum Ca-125 levels were measured in 154 patients undergoing laparoscopy or laparotomy for infertility and/or pelvic pain. Pelvic endometriosis at various stages was observed in 102 of the patients, and 52 had a visually normal pelvis and s…

We have used GIFT in 74 couples affected with unexplained sterility, male hypofertility, endometriosis, phymosis of the fimbria and adhesions impeding oocyte pick-up. We systematically desensitized the pituitary using a GnRH analog from the…

GnRH agonists, synthetic peptide analogs of GnRH, desensitize pituitary receptors for the native molecule, thus causing reversible hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. Numerous clinical studies have suggested that these compounds are efficacious …

Peritoneal fluid collected at celioscopy in infertile subjects was assayed for steroids and several prostanoids (PGE2, PGF2, TXB2, LTB4) as part of a study into pathophysiology of the female reproductive tract. Prostaglandins, produced mass…

In the period 1979-1983, 102 patients with endometriosis underwent conservative surgery at Ia Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica, Milan University. Treatment indications, techniques and results are presented. 34.3% of the women were in stage …

The authors have studied, in 120 women with sterility, the incidence of endometriosis in the laparoscopic diagnostics, the development of pathology after the treatment by Danazol alone (600 mg/daily/6 months) or preoperative Danazol and sub…

The advantages of microsurgical anastomosis for cornual occlusion are evaluated in a series of 82 pure cases of pathologic cornual occlusion. The term pregnancy rate was 44% and the ectopic pregnancy rate was 7%. The following factors were …

The Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer (GIFT) was carried out in 12 couples with unexplained infertility, in 2 cases with infertility associated with mild endometriosis, in 1 case of hostile mucus and 3 cases in which phymosis of the ampulla an…

From January 1985 to December 1985 we have performed 83 GIFTS for various indications such as unexplained infertility, immunological problems, endometriosis, male factor, fimbrial pathology. In 82 women out of 83, oocytes and sperm have bee…

The surprising disagreement in treatment results obtained by the various authors treating endometriosis is in large part due to differences in the severity of the disease. Only the adoption of a satisfactory staging system allows valid comp…