BACKGROUND Endometriosis is a complex disease that can result in substantial morbidity, including chronic pain, dysmenorrhea and dyspareunia. There are contradictory reports regarding the connection between acute and chronic stress and magnesium levels in body fluids. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A prospective study included 87 patients undergoing laparoscopy. The study group included 40 women with e...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between preceding endometriosis and gestational hypertension-preeclampsia (GH-PE). METHODS In this nationwide population-based longitudinal study, data from 1998-2012 Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database were used. We used ICD9-CM codes 617.X and 642.X respectively for the diagnoses of endometriosis and GH-PE, which were further confirmed...

BACKGROUND The suitable parameter in PF as well as in serum that may predict the activity of endometriosis is not well described. Therefore, we tried to examine the peritoneal fluid (PF) and serum concentrations of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) in different revised American Society of Reproductive Medicine (r-ASRM) staging and morphologic appearances of endometriosis in an attempt to determine...

Background: Endometriosis is a chronic condition commonly presenting with pain symptoms and infertility. Endometriosis can only be diagnosed definitively at laparocopy. In view of the absence of reliable tools that can establish the diagnosis in a non-invasive way, there is a strong need for clinical prediction. Objective: To investigate the value of pain symptoms in prediction and staging of e...

endometriosis is defined as the presence of functioning endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity. endometriosis can sometimes occur in a previous surgical scar. scar endometriosis is rare and difficult to diagnose. it mostly follows obstetrical and gynecological surgeries. this condition is often confused with other surgical conditions. we are reporting one case of scar endometriosis invol...

Endometriosis is a common gynecological entity that usually occurs in the pelvic organs. Umbilical endometriosis rare condition accounts for 0.5-1% of all extragenital endometriosis. It arises secondary to prior surgery but may arise de novo as well. We report case this with spontaneous occurrence, which was diagnosed preoperatively umbilical granuloma. should be kept differential diagnoses wom...

endometriosis is the presence of benign endometrial glands and stroma outside the uterus. urinary system involvement by endometriosis is a rare occurrence accounting for only 1.5 % of all endometriosis cases. case 1. the patient was a 41 years old woman admitted for right flank pain. the physical and gynaecologic examination was unyielding. intravenous urography (ivu) revealed stenosis in dista...

objective: this study aimed to evaluate the levels of two oxidative stress (os) markers including lipid peroxide (lpo) and total antioxidant capacity (tac) in both serum and follicular fluid (ff) of women with endometriosis after puncture. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a total number of sixty-three women younger than 40 years old with laparoscopy (gold standard for endom...

Endometriosis is a benign disease and an estrogen-dependent disease. Postmenopausal endometriosis is rare, because the absence of estrogenic hormone production. We report a case of endometriosis presenting in a postmenopausal woman with no history of endometriosis before hormone replacement therapy.

Endometriosis is a common gynecologic disorder wherein ectopic endometrial glands and stroma are found at extrauterine sites. Extrapelvic endometriosis is a well-documented, yet rare, disease entity that can affect almost any organ system. Inguinal endometriosis is an extremely rare disease entity characterized by tender inguinal swelling. Here we report a case of a sudden-onset and acutely pai...