STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess feasibility, and collect preliminary data for a subsequent randomized, sham-controlled trial to evaluate Japanese-style acupuncture for reducing chronic pelvic pain and improving health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adolescents with endometriosis. DESIGN Randomized, sham-controlled trial. SETTINGS Tertiary-referral hospital. PARTICIPANTS Eighteen young women...

BACKGROUND Endometriosis is considered an estrogen-dependent disease. Persistent environmental chemicals that exhibit hormonal properties, such as organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), may affect endometriosis risk. OBJECTIVE We investigated endometriosis risk in relation to environmental exposure to OCPs. METHODS We conducted the present analyses using data from the Women's Risk of Endometrios...

background: the association of endometriosis with hyperprolactinemia is controversial. objective: the present study aimed to determine the frequency of endometriosis and association of prolactin with endometriosis in infertile women. materials and methods: 256 infertile women who underwent diagnostic laparoscopy for the evaluation of infertility, referred to fatemezahra infertility and reproduc...

PURPOSE Mechanisms of immune dysregulation associated with advanced tumors are relatively well understood. Much less is known about the role of immune effectors against cancer precursor lesions. Endometrioid and clear-cell ovarian tumors partly derive from endometriosis, a commonly diagnosed chronic inflammatory disease. We performed here a comprehensive immune gene expression analysis of pelvi...

Endometriosis is a chronic disease primarily affecting women of childbearing age, in which endometriotic lesions form outside the uterus, typically leading to painful symptoms, fatigue, and infertility. The symptoms of endometriosis may cause significant impairment in quality of life and represent a substantial economic burden to patients, families, and society. There is no cure for endometrios...

Radiating leg pain is a common symptom presenting in manual therapy practices. Although this symptom has been reported as a complication of endometriosis, its prevalence and characteristics have not been studied. We surveyed members of a national endometriosis support group with endometriosis using a self-administered, mailed questionnaire. The main outcome measures were the prevalence and char...

Here we provide the recent information on molecular profile of endometrium and highlight pathogenesis infertility occurring during endometriosis. Because individual features each woman’s organism, there are no versatile diagnostic criteria for determining endometrial receptivity which plays one leading roles in implantation disorders. Although a lot studies gene expression endometriosis have be...

BACKGROUND In severe forms of endometriosis, the colon or rectum may be involved. This study evaluated the functional results and long-term outcome after laparoscopic colonic resection for endometriosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Questionnaire survey with 24 women who had experienced typical symptoms, including pelvic pain, infertility, and endometriotic lesions in the bowel and undergone laparosc...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate, in an ordinary primary healthcare setting, the effects of a screening questionnaire and a self-administered health profile dealing with special reference to the involvement of motivated individuals in need of lifestyle changes. DESIGN Intervention study in a naturalistic context, using a screening questionnaire offered to consecutive patients, followed by a self-adminis...

An altered hormonal or chronic systemic inflammatory milieu characterizing endometriosis may result in a higher risk of hypercholesterolemia and hypertension. Conversely, elevated low-density lipoprotein in hypercholesterolemia and chronic systemic inflammation resulting from hypertension may increase the risk of endometriosis. We assessed the association of laparoscopically confirmed endometri...