Endometriosis is a common disease in women of childbearing age and is defined as the presence of endometrial glands and stroma in organs outside of the uterine cavity. Appendiceal endometriosis is very uncommon and accounts for a small fraction of all cases of extrapelvic endometriosis. Cases of that which occur during pregnancy are extremely rare with an incidence that ranges between 3 and 8 d...

Objective: To compare the clinical efficacy of Cassia Twig Tuckahoe capsule (Chinese Medicine) and Mifepristone combined with laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of endometriosis. Designs: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Gynecology and Obstetrics Department, Jingzhou Central Hospital, affiliated to Yangtze University. Methods: We selected 67 patients suspected with endometriosis and divid...

Passos EP. Prolactin and growth hormone secretion alter thyrotrophin-releasing hormona infusion and dopaminergic (DA2) blockade in infertile patients with minimal/mild endometriosis. Hum Reprod 2002;17:960–965. Gómez R, Gonzalez-Izquierdo M, Zimmermann RC, Novella-Maestre E, Alonso-Muriel I, Sanchez-Criado J, Remohi J, Simon C, Pellicer A. Low dose dopamine agonist administration blocks VEGF me...

Abstract Background Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition with varied presentation, which ultimately leads to pelvic pain and infertility. It psychological economic burden the women their families. Main body of abstract The literature search was performed on following databases: MEDLINE, Google Scholar, Scopus, EMBASE, Global health, COCHRANE library, Web Science. We searched entire...

Endometriosis affects >10% of women during their reproductive years, many of whom report high rates of spontaneous pregnancy loss (SPL). We examined whether gene polymorphisms in apolipoprotein E (APOE), which is involved in lipoprotein metabolism, are associated with endometriosis and/or endometriosis-associated infertility. We conducted a cross-sectional genetic association study of women sur...

The main female anatomical causes of infertility include post-infectious tubal damage, endometriosis, and congenital/acquired uterine anomalies. Congenital (septate uterus) and acquired (myomas and synechiae) diseases of the uterus may lead to infertility, pregnancy loss, and other obstetric complications. Pelvic inflammatory disease represents the most common cause of tubal damage. Surgery sti...

By asking the question 'What is the optimal medical management of infertility and minor endometriosis?', it is assumed that endometriosis has a detrimental effect on fertility. The published data suggest that oocyte dysfunction may contribute to infertility associated with endometriosis. This is expressed as a reduction in fertilization and implantation rates; implantation rates to a lesser ext...

The present study is the first prospective randomized controlled trial of the effect of pentoxifylline on future fertility in infertile women with asymptomatic minimal or mild endometriosis. After completion of a basic infertility workup and laparoscopy, patients were entered into the study and randomly allocated to receive either a 12 month course of oral pentoxifylline (800 mg/day) (n = 30) o...

BACKGROUND There is currently no consensus about indications for surgery for infertility associated with colorectal endometriosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate cumulative pregnancy rates (CPRs) after ICSI-IVF cycles in patients with colorectal endometriosis and to identify determinant factors of fertility outcome. METHODS Prospective longitudinal multicentre study from January 2005 t...

Unicornuate uterus accounts for 2.4–13 % of all mullerian anomalies [1]. An estimated 75–90 % of unicornuate uteri with rudimentary horns are non-communicating. Pregnancy in rudimentary horn is rare, i.e., 1:76,000 and 1:1,40,000 pregnancies [2], and is associated with 70 % risk of uterine rupture occurring before 20 weeks of gestation leading to life-threatening intraperitoneal hemorrhage [3]....