Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological diseases and affects ~10% of women in reproductive age. The most common clinical signs of endometriosis are menstrual irregularities, chronic pelvic pain (CPP), dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia and infertility. Symptoms of endometriosis often affect psychological and social functioning of patients. For this reason, endometriosis is considered as a ...

Endometriosis is a common gynecological disorder, which affects 5-15% of women of reproductive age [1]. The prevalence of endometriosis varies depending on the population in question and the presence of infertility [2-7]. It has an unpredictable rate of progression [8]. The chronic nature and severity of endometriosis often leads to deterioration in quality of life and high psychological morbid...

conclusions some other small studies have proved that statins were effective in regression of endometriosis implants and we have also proved that the levels of serum lipid profile was higher in patients suffering from endometriosis, perhaps higher levels of lipid profile has a significant etiologic role in pathogenesis of endometriosis. results we had 25 patients in endometriosis group and 50 i...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of natural cycle (NC) endometrial preparation for frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET) in women with advanced endometriosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS This retrospective study included 179 patients with stage III-IV endometriosis who underwent 233 FET cycles at a tertiary care academic reproductive medical center between March 2011 and Au...

OBJECTIVES The aim of study was to compare the accuracy between rectal water contrast transvaginal ultrasound (RWC-TVS) and double-contrast barium enema (DCBE) in evaluating the bowel endometriosis presence as well as its extent. DESIGN AND SETTING 198 patients at reproductive age with suspicious bowel endometriosis were included. Physicians in two groups specialised at endometriosis performe...

background: symptoms of this with an overall negative impact on the psychosocial parameters in the patients,leading to a significant reduction of health-related quality of life. the aim of this study was toevaluate health-related quality of life in patients with endometriosis.endometriosis is a estrogen- depended and chronic gynecological disease. themethodshospitals affiliated tehran universit...

OBJECTIVE To examine pain and biopsychosocial correlates over time for women with persistent postsurgical pain after surgery for endometriosis. METHODS Cross-sectional study of women who underwent any endometriosis surgery between 2003 and 2006. Following surgery, patients completed validated questionnaires (Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire, 12-item Short-Form Health Survey, Beck Depressi...

Endometriosis is a chronic female disease affecting the quality of life (QoL) and sexual satisfaction (SS) approximately 176 million women reproductive age worldwide. This study analysed variables that contributed to QoL SS, whether symptom severity moderated relationship between intensity QoL/ SS. cross-sectional included 124 diagnosed with clinical endometriosis. Participants answered Health ...

Urocortin is a neuropeptide belonging to the corticotrophin-releasing hormone family and is expressed by eutopic and ectopic human endometrium and the last years is investigated in the field of endometriosis. The objective of this systematic review is to accumulate current evidence related to the expression of urocortin in tissue and blood samples of patients suffering from endometriosis. Liter...

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 immonomodela...