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REVIEW
Rebeka Podgrajsek, Helena Ban Frangez, Martin Stimpfel
Resveratrol is a polyphenol present in various plant sources. Studies have reported numerous potential health benefits of resveratrol, exhibiting anti-aging, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, and anti-carcinogenic activity. Due to the reported effects, resveratrol is also being tested in reproductive disorders, including female infertility. Numerous cellular, animal, and even human studies were performed with a focus on the effect of resveratrol on female infertility. In this review, we reviewed some of its molecular mechanisms of action and summarized animal and human studies regarding resveratrol and female infertility, with a focus on age-related infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome, and endometriosis...
March 23, 2024: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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REVIEW
Gabriele Centini, Giorgia Schettini, Emilio Pieri, Matteo Giorgi, Lucia Lazzeri, Francesco Giuseppe Martire, Virginia Mancini, Diego Raimondo, Renato Seracchioli, Nassir Habib, Francesco Fedele, Errico Zupi
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis affects more than 10% of reproductive-aged women, causing pelvic pain and infertility. Despite the benign nature of endometriosis, ovarian endometriomas carry a higher risk of developing endometrioid carcinomas (EnOCs) and clear cell ovarian carcinomas (CCCs). Atypical endometriosis, defined as cytological atypia resembling intraepithelial cancer, is considered the precursor of endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer (EAOC). This narrative review aims to provide an overview of EAOC, proposing a practical approach to clinical and therapeutic decision making...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yijiao Qu, Ming Chen, Yiran Wang, Liangliang Qu, Ruiyue Wang, Huihui Liu, Liping Wang, Zongxiu Nie
Infertility presents a widespread challenge for many families worldwide, often arising from various gynecological diseases (GDs) that hinder successful pregnancies. Current diagnostic methods for GDs have disadvantages such as low efficiency, high cost, misdiagnose, invasive injury and etc. This paper introduces a rapid, non-invasive, efficient, and straightforward analytical method that utilizes desorption, separation, and ionization mass spectrometry (DSI-MS) platform in conjunction with machine learning (ML) to detect urine metabolite fingerprints in patients with different GDs...
April 8, 2024: Talanta
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Abdelhamid Benlghazi, Saad Benali, Moad Belouad, Yassine Bouhtouri, Ait Bouhou Rachid, Fatima El Mangoub, Moulay Mehdi Elhassani, Jaouad Kouach
Endometriosis is a disease characterized by the implantation of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterine cavity. Common symptoms include cyclical pain, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, and infertility. Although endometriosis can spread to various extrauterine locations including the ovaries, fallopian tubes, and peritoneal surfaces, umbilical endometriosis is a rare manifestation of the disease. We report an intriguing clinical case of primary umbilical endometriosis in a 36-year-old female patient admitted to our department due to the notable manifestation of a painful swelling at the umbilicus, accompanied by cyclic episodes of bleeding...
2024: SAGE Open Medical Case Reports
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Renato Seracchioli, Manuela Maletta, Enrico Pazzaglia, Antonio Raffone, Rossella Vicenti, Stefano Scarperi, Valentino Bergamini, Diego Raimondo
OBJECTIVE: Vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES) is an emerging surgical procedure that combines the advantages of the vaginal approach with laparoscopic vision and instrumentation [1]. Shorter hospitalization and lower postoperative pain associated to vNOTES [2] may be explained by the advantages of this innovative surgical approach (such as absence of abdominal incisions, shorter operating time, lower insufflation pressure) [2;3]. Ovarian tissue cryopreservation allows to preserve reproductive and endocrine functions in young women with oncological disease at risk of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) caused by gonadotoxic treatments [4]...
April 9, 2024: Fertility and Sterility
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A Vallée, E Saridogan, F Petraglia, J Keckstein, N Polyzos, C Wyns, L Gianaroli, B Tarlatzis, J M Ayoubi, A Feki
Endometriosis is a complex and chronic gynaecological disorder that affects millions of women worldwide, leading to significant morbidity and impacting reproductive health. This condition affects up to 10% of women of reproductive age and is characterised by the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, potentially leading to symptoms such as chronic pelvic pain, dysmenorrhoea, dyspareunia, and infertility. The Montreux summit brought a number of experts in this field together to provide a platform for discussion and exchange of ideas...
April 11, 2024: Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn
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Kyle N LE, Camran Nezhat, Ceana Nezhat, Ariel Benor, Alan Decherney
Endometriosis is a debilitating gynecologic disorder characterized by chronic pelvic pain, pelvic adhesions and infertility. The gold standard diagnostic modality is histologically by tissue biopsy, although it can be diagnosed empirically if symptoms improve with medical treatment. A delayed diagnosis of endometriosis often leads to a significant impairment in quality of life and work productivity; hence, significant morbidity has been shown to bear a detrimental impact on society and the economy. The ongoing novel investigation into biomarkers for diagnostic or prognostic evaluation of endometriosis may aid in earlier detection, and thereby, improve patient quality-of-life as well as minimize morbidity...
April 10, 2024: Minerva obstetrics and gynecology
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Inmaculada Pérez-Prieto, Aida Rodríguez-Santisteban, Signe Altmäe
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The analysis of microbiome in association with female health is today a "hot topic" with the main focus on microbes in the female reproductive tract. Nevertheless, recent studies are providing novel information of the possible influence of the gut microbiome on gynecological health outcomes, especially as we start to understand that the gut microbiome is an extended endocrine organ influencing female hormonal levels. This review summarizes the current knowledge of the gut microbes in association with gynecological health...
April 9, 2024: Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
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Adrien Crestani, Benjamin Merlot, Paul-Henri Goualard, Georgios Grigoriadis, Isabelle Chanavaz Lacheray, Thomas Dennis, Horace Roman
Bowel endometriosis is the most common form of severe deep endometriosis. Surgery is an option in case of infertility and/or chronic pain or in the presence of a stenotic lesion. Clinical examination and preoperative imaging must provide an identity card of the lesion so that customized surgery can be proposed. The primary objective of this tailor-made surgery will always be to preserve the organ. The surgeon then has three options: shaving, discoid resection and segmental resection. The more extensive the resection, the greater the risk of severe short- and long-term complications...
March 31, 2024: Best Practice & Research. Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
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Matteo Marchetti, Marco Noventa, Eleonora Panizzolo, Valentina Pianon, Matteo Tamagnini, Sofia Bigardi, Carlo Saccardi, Roberto Tozzi, Giulia Spagnol
Background : The Endometriosis Fertility Index (EFI), is a crucial validated surgical tool used for predicting fertility outcomes in women with endometriosis. This study aims to assess the concordance between a preoperative clinical and instrumental EFI evaluation (uEFI) and the EFI score obtained during an exploratory laparoscopy prior to surgery (sEFI). Methods : This study presents preliminary data from a broader observational cohort study. The Least Function score for the uEFI was calculated using a modified version of the original surgical EFI by incorporating a clinical examination, advanced ultrasound, and hysterosalpingo-foam sonography (HyFoSy)...
March 5, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Scott W Young, Priyanka Jha, Luciana Chamié, Shuchi Rodgers, Rosanne M Kho, Mindy M Horrow, Phyllis Glanc, Myra Feldman, Yvette Groszmann, Zaraq Khan, Steven L Young, Liina Poder, Tatnai L Burnett, Eric M Hu, Susan Egan, Wendaline VanBuren
Endometriosis is a prevalent and potentially debilitating condition that mostly affects individuals of reproductive age, and often has a substantial diagnostic delay. US is usually the first-line imaging modality used when patients report chronic pelvic pain or have issues of infertility, both common symptoms of endometriosis. Other than the visualization of an endometrioma, sonologists frequently do not appreciate endometriosis on routine transvaginal US images. Given a substantial body of literature describing techniques to depict endometriosis at US, the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound convened a multidisciplinary panel of experts to make recommendations aimed at improving the screening process for endometriosis...
April 2024: Radiology
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Ashmita Saha, Nilanchali Singh, Deepika Kashyap, Anshul Kulshrestha, Avir Sarkar, Jai B Sharma, Kallol Kumar Roy
BACKGROUND: Incidence of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in India reported in 2019 is 193 per 1 lakh population [National Tuberculosis Elimination Plan (NTEP)]. In India, annual extra pulmonary TB burden is 20-25%, of which 4% of cases are of urogenital origin (Revised National TB Control Programme, 2019; World Health Organization, 2019). The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has made a target of eliminating tuberculosis by 2025 under the NTEP by the process of identification, notification and treatment of cases...
April 2024: Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Diana Encalada Soto
INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is a chronic disease that affects millions of women worldwide, causing dysmenorrhea, chronic pain, and infertility, and has a significant impact on the healthcare system. Despite efforts to understand its pathogenesis, endometriosis is a disease with heterogeneous presentations and phenotypes which is manifested in part by the lack of a non-invasive biomarker available for its diagnosis. This review aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice by summarizing the most promising areas of study for developing a reliable biomarker or combination of biomarkers for the non-invasive diagnosis of endometriosis...
April 4, 2024: Minerva obstetrics and gynecology
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Xuemei Qing, Lele He, Ying Ma, Yong Zhang, Wenxin Zheng
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis frequently results in pain and infertility. While conservative surgery offers some relief, it often falls short of ensuring satisfactory pregnancy outcomes. Adjuvant GnRH-a is administered post-surgery to mitigate recurrence; however, its impact on pregnancy outcomes remains debated. This study endeavors to assess the efficacy of adjuvant GnRH-a in enhancing pregnancy outcomes post-conservative surgery in endometriosis patients. METHODS: Databases including PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, Medline (Ovid), Web of Science, and Scopus were rigorously searched up to 02 August 2023, without linguistic constraints...
April 4, 2024: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Nanda Yuli Rahmawati, Fadhil Ahsan, Budi Santoso, Alfin Firasy Mufid, Ashon Sa'adi, Sri Ratna Dwiningsih, Arif Tunjungseto, M Y Ardianta Widyanugraha
OBJECTIVES: Myeloid cell-derived factors contribute to the immunopathology of endometriosis. Soluble CD14 (sCD14), CD163 (sCD163), and MIF serves as in vivo markers of myeloid function. However, these soluble molecules are largely unexplored in women with endometriosis-related infertility cases. We investigated three soluble markers, namely sCD14, sCD163, and MIF, in cases of infertility associated with endometriosis and correlated its level to the stage of endometriosis. DESIGN: Eighty-seven women newly diagnosed with endometriosis or other benign gynecologic control cases linked to infertility were prospectively recruited and underwent diagnostic laparoscopy...
April 3, 2024: Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation
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Aleksandra Zyguła, Anna Sankiewicz, Agata Sakowicz, Ewa Dobrzyńska, Agnieszka Dakowicz, Grzegorz Mańka, Mariusz Kiecka, Robert Spaczynski, Piotr Piekarski, Beata Banaszewska, Artur Jakimiuk, Tadeusz Issat, Wojciech Rokita, Jakub Młodawski, Maria Szubert, Piotr Sieroszewski, Grzegorz Raba, Kamil Szczupak, Tomasz Kluza, Marek Kluza, Piotr Pierzyński, Cezary Wojtyla, Michal Lipa, Damian Warzecha, Miroslaw Wielgos, Krzysztof Cendrowski, Ewa Gorodkiewicz, Piotr Laudanski
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to analyze the concentration of leptin in peritoneal fluid and plasma and to assess their role as potential biomarkers in the diagnosis of endometriosis. MATERIALS & METHODS: Leptin adjusted for BMI (leptin/BMI ratio) was measured using surface plasmon resonance imaging (SPRI) biosensors. Patients with suspected endometriosis were included in the study. Plasma was collected from 70 cases, and peritoneal fluid from 67 cases...
2024: Frontiers in Endocrinology
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Ning Huang, Lixue Chen, Zhiqiang Yan, Hongbin Chi, Jie Qiao
BACKGROUND: Cumulative live birth rate (CLBR) is considered as the most important endpoint for assessing the probability of having a baby in a complete in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF/ICSI) treatment cycle. Many previous studies have focused on the association between thyroid autoimmunity (TAI) and live birth rate after first embryo transfer cycle, however, evidence on whether the presence of TAI affects the CLBR is lacking. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of TAI on the CLBR in a complete IVF/ICSI cycle...
April 2, 2024: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Fabia Pigatti Silva, Daniela Angerame Yela, Melissa de Barros Meneguetti, Flavia Torelli, Luciano Gibran, Cristina Laguna Benetti-Pinto
PURPOSE: To evaluate the quality of life, sexual function, anxiety, and depression of women with endometriosis according to pain symptoms and infertility. METHODS: This cross-sectional multicenter study included 229 women with endometriosis followed up at a tertiary hospital in Campinas, a tertiary hospital in São Paulo, and a reproductive medicine clinic in Campinas from 2018 to 2021. The women were divided into four groups according to the presence of pain symptoms and infertility...
April 2, 2024: Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
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Yanlin Su, Wencai Tian, Li Cheng, Ling Yin, Xiaoxia He, Xin Wei
INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis (EMs), manifested by pain and infertility, is a chronic inflammatory disease. The precise pathophysiology of this disease remains uncertain. Insulin-like growth factor-2 mRNA-binding protein 1 (IGF2BP1) and polypyrimidine tract-binding protein 1 (PTBP1) have both been found to regulate proliferation, apoptosis, and invasion. This study aimed to investigate the effects of IGF2BP1/PTBP1 in treating EMs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: qRT-PCR and western blotting were employed to quantify IGF2BP1 and PTBP1 expression in six patients with EMs (mean age 33...
April 2, 2024: Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica
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Samvida S Venkatesh, Laura B L Wittemans, Duncan S Palmer, Nikolas A Baya, Teresa Ferreira, Barney Hill, Frederik Heymann Lassen, Melody J Parker, Saskia Reibe, Ahmed Elhakeem, Karina Banasik, Mie T Bruun, Christian Erikstrup, Bitten A Jensen, Anders Juul, Christina Mikkelsen, Henriette S Nielsen, Sisse R Ostrowski, Ole B Pedersen, Palle D Rohde, Erik Sorensen, Henrik Ullum, David Westergaard, Asgeir Haraldsson, Hilma Holm, Ingileif Jonsdottir, Isleifur Olafsson, Thora Steingrimsdottir, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Jessica Figueredo, Minna K Karjalainen, Anu Pasanen, Benjamin M Jacobs, Nikki Hubers, Margaret Lippincott, Abigail Fraser, Deborah A Lawlor, Nicholas J Timpson, Mette Nyegaard, Kari Stefansson, Reedik Magi, Hannele Laivuori, David A van Heel, Dorret I Boomsma, Ravikumar Balasubramanian, Stephanie B Seminara, Yee-Ming Chan, Triin Laisk, Cecilia M Lindgren
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) may help inform treatments for infertility, whose causes remain unknown in many cases. Here we present GWAS meta-analyses across six cohorts for male and female infertility in up to 41,200 cases and 687,005 controls. We identified 21 genetic risk loci for infertility ( P ≤5E-08), of which 12 have not been reported for any reproductive condition. We found positive genetic correlations between endometriosis and all-cause female infertility ( r g =0.585, P =8.98E-14), and between polycystic ovary syndrome and anovulatory infertility ( r g =0...
March 20, 2024: medRxiv
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