[caption id="attachment_2758" align="alignnone" width="400"] Image courtesy of holohololand at FreeDigitalPhotos.net[/caption] By I.Soussis MD Hudson et al. from the UK, presented an interesting study at the latest ESHRE conference, held in Lisbon Portugal in June 2015. The main question was: How do partners of women with endometriosis perceive the disorder and how...
By I.Soussis MD How high is the percentage of natural conception and pregnancy in women with untreated colorectal endometriosis? Erasmo et al. from Genova, Italy attempted to answer this question. Their study was presented at the ESHRE annual conference in Lisbon in 2015. The study involved 55 patients with colorectal endometriosis,...
[caption id="attachment_2741" align="alignnone" width="400"] Image courtesy of imagerymajestic at FreeDigitalPhotos.net[/caption] By I.Soussis MD If women suffering with endometriosis have a higher risk of adverse pregnancy outcome in early pregnancy, such as spontaneous miscarriage or ectopic pregnancy, was not well documented up to now. A study from Japan compared...
By I.Soussis During the early days of IVF treatment, patients were placed into two groups; one which dealt with tubal factors and which was considered to have a better outcome and a second one, which encompassed all other causes of infertility. Patients with endometriosis were placed into...
[caption id="attachment_2726" align="alignnone" width="412"] Image courtesy of pat138241 at FreeDigitalPhotos.net[/caption] By I.Soussis The relationship between smoking and endometriosis is not very clear. The conclusions of many studies are rather conflicting and opposing. In a study from Portugal, women who smoked or had stopped smoking, had a smaller chance of...
