BACKGROUND Women with endometriosis often need IVF to conceive-most women need several cycles of treatment. METHODS To evaluate the impact of moderate to severe endometriosis on cumulative IVF outcome, we carried out an observational study on 98 consecutive women who underwent IVF or ICSI treatment and had endometriosis diagnosed by laparoscopy or laparotomy and classified as minimal to mild ...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Diagnoses of endometriosis are based on observation of endometriotic lesions by means of laparoscopy, along with the pathological findings. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the macroscopic findings in relation to the histopathological findings. More specifically, we aimed to test the efficacy of laparoscopy alone for diagnosing endom...

conclusions to find a more precise data about the role of vitamin d in pathogenesis and treatment of endometriosis, clinical trials are needed to find if the prescription of vitamin d is effective in treatment of endometriosis. results after laparoscopy, we had 40 cases of endometriosis and 105 cases without endometriosis. mean serum level of vitamin d was 19.38 ± 1.65 ng/ml in endometriosis gr...

Objective: To clarify if endometriosis, especially deep infiltrating endometriosis (DE), in our cohort is associated with increased risk of obstetric complications.

PURPOSE to compare serum markers of oxidative stress between infertile patients with and without endometriosis and to assess the association of these markers with disease staging. METHODS this was a prospective study conducted on 112 consecutive infertile, non-obese patients younger than 39 years, divided into two groups: Endometriosis (n=48, 26 with minimal and mild endometriosis - Stage I/I...

background:  about 75% of the symptomatic patients who involved with endometriosis have pelvic pain and dysmenorrhea. pentoxifyllin is one of the drugs that according to its mechanism could be effective for pain relief of endometriosis which has been used for endometriosis treatment recently   objective: we conducted a comparative study for detecting the effect of pentoxifylin (as an immonomode...

Accumulating evidence suggests that advanced (moderate/severe) endometriosis negatively affects female fecundity, whereas the influence of early (minimal/mild) endometriosis on human reproduction remains unclear. Recent studies showed that the presence of the early pelvic endometriosis lesions deteriorates the ovarian reserve, luteal function, and fertilization rate in infertile women undergoin...

Endometriosis is a common entity affecting females of reproductive age. Clinical manifestations are not specific, making the preoperative diagnosis difficult to establish. Intestinal endometriosis is common, but ethiology is unknown. The complications of intestinal endometriosis include intestinal obstruction, perforation, hemorrhagic ascites, protein-losing enteropathy, anasarca, and intussusc...

BACKGROUND Traditionally, pregnancy was considered to have a positive effect on endometriosis and its painful symptoms due not only to blockage of ovulation preventing bleeding of endometriotic tissue but also to different metabolic, hormonal, immune and angiogenesis changes related to pregnancy. However, a growing literature is emerging on the role of endometriosis in affecting the development...

INTRODUCTION Cancer antigen 125 (CA-125), known as a biomarker for women genital tract malignancies, could be also useful in detecting and monitoring endometriosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate CA-125 in serum and peritoneal fluid (PF) as an indicator of endometriosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty-six patients admitted to the First Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for diagnosti...