Active clinical trials for "Endometriosis"

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder leading to painful periods, pain with intercourse and infertility. The available treatment options to alleviate pain involve mainly hormonal treatments and surgery. All current hormonal treatments are effective but disrupt the normal variations in reproductive hormones which prevent ovulation, and thus pregnancy. Statins, a group of cholesterol lowering drugs, have anti-inflammatory properties which may be helpful also for the pain related to endometriosis. The investigators plan to undertake a pilot study of 10 patients with endometriosis who will take pravastatin sodium together with coQ10, which is inhibited by statins, for a period of 3 months. If this pilot study shows that the statin treatment may decrease pain symptoms in endometriosis, then the investigators plan to undertake a larger study to further investigate this matter.

The study targets to evaluate the role of estimation of plasma expression levels of gene of microRNAs 203 and 210 in helping to diagnose and grade endometriosis. The study included women with unexplained infertility and clinical picture suggestive of presence of endometriosis were divided randomly into two groups: Control and study groups. All patients underwent exploratory laparotomy for diagnosis and grading of endometriosis if present. Patients of study group gave blood samples for estimation of plasma expression levels of microRNA 203 and 210 using qRT-PCR procedure.

Endometriosis is a relatively common chronic gynecological condition that affects approximately 10% of all women of reproductive age. It is a pelvic inflammatory disease that is characterized by the presence of endometrial glands and stroma outside of the uterine cavity. Typical symptoms of endometriosis include dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain, and infertility; the severity of pain associated with this disease often leads to a considerable decrease in quality of life. The standard treatment for severe pelvic pain and infertility is to surgically remove endometriotic areas. Identifying all endometriotic lesions is paramount to "optimal endometriosis debulking." The inability to see all endometriosis lesions has been thought to be a factor for patients with little or no relief following surgery. Using the Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) method has the potential to improve visualization of endometriosis lesions, assist in debulking and thus, result in improved clinical outcomes. NBI is a technique that uses a specific narrow wavelength of light to change the normal color contrasts of the endoscopic image and improve detection of neovascularization, which is the pathological feature of endometriosis for both superficial and deeper vascularization. This type of imaging has the potential to offer improved discrimination of lesions, increasing diagnostic yield as well as resulting in more complete debulking. This study is designed to determine the degree to which NBI improves the detection and diagnosis of endometriosis lesions. Data collected during the study will be used to test the hypothesis that the use of NBI will improve the detection and diagnosis of endometriotic lesions at the time of laparoscopy compared to standard visible white light examination. Furthermore, this study will also determine the impact of the use of NBI compared to use of white light examination on reported severity of pain at 6-weeks, 3-months, and 6 months following surgery. Hypotheses: The use of NBI in addition to white light examination will improve the diagnostic yield of endometriotic lesions at the time of laparoscopy compared to only using white light examination. The use of NBI in addition to white light examination will improve the sensitivity of detecting endometriotic lesions and reduce false positives at laparoscopy compared to only using white light examination. Secondarily, the use of NBI will be associated with a greater reduction in pain at the 6-week, 3-month, and 6-month follow-up compared to the use of white light examination alone because of improved lesion identification and debulking.

this study is to determine whether the frequency and severity of pelvic pain or dysmenorrhea are reduced in women with symptomatic endometriosis in whom a Lng IUD is inserted after operative laparoscopy compare with those treated with laparoscopic surgery only

To investigate the pharmacokinetic effect of a vaginally administered antimycotic (miconazole), antibiotic (clindamycin), spermicide (nonoxynol-9) or the concomitant use of tampons during the use of an intravaginal ring releasing anastrozole and levonorgestrel

To evaluate the variation of AMH levels in women undergoing treatment with GnRHa, and to assess whether this variation correlates with changes in the antral and pre-antral follicle ultrasonographic count (AFC).

The aim of the study is to establish a new and more accurate method to visualize the peritoneal changes caused by endometriosis using Indocyanine Green mediated fluorescence imaging. The hypothesis is that Indocyanine Green, a fluorescent dye that has wide applications throughout medicine in identifying vascularity of tissues and neo-vascularization, could facilitate the localization and excision of endometriotic lesions exploiting the hypervascularization due to the chronic inflammation. The already published Pilot Study GRE-ENDO (Cosentino F, Near-Infrared Imaging with Indocyanine Green for Detection of Endometriosis Lesions (Gre-Endo Trial): A Pilot Study.), encouraged the effort of a larger prospective trial. Based on the mini-max two-stage design by Simon [Simon R. Optimal two stage design for phase II clinical trials], the investigators tested the null hypothesis that the true rate of pathologically assessed endometriosis would improve from 87% to the clinically relevant alternative of 100.0%, as assessed by NIR-ICG laparoscopy.

A Phase 2a, Single-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, in 80 subjects diagnosed with Endometriosis, stage 2-4

To evaluate the feasibility of using Indocyanine Green in the laparoscopic surgical treatment of benign organic ovarian cysts (dermoid, serous, mucinous and endometriotic) in patients with a short-term desire for pregnancy. The use of Indocyanine Green during this surgery could allow early evaluation of the absence of alteration of the underlying ovary by the cystectomy. To do so, the fluorescence scores (indocyanine green staining) need to be compared to the ovarian reserve of the patient, previously verified intraoperatively and postoperatively at M6 and M12, these scores being determined according to the vascularization visualized in laparoscopy and established both by a double visual notation (Likert scale) and by a computer software (METAMORPH) objective notation. This procedure would, in patients with fertility disorders or wishing for pregnancy in the short run, reassure them about their reproductive potential immediately after the intervention. In the event of poor staining, if correlated by a decrease in ovarian reserve, the concerned patients could be referred to a MPA treatment facility much earlier in the postoperative period or, if no desire for immediate pregnancy, towards fertility preservation methods.

78 endometriosis patients presented with infertility were clinically examined and the diagnosis was assured by US imaging. The study also included 11 control fertile women free of gynecological problems as a control for lab tests. Patients and controls gave blood samples for lab investigations. All patients underwent diagnostic abdominal laparoscopy under general anesthesia for disease staging. Quantitative determination of expression levels of genes of microRNA-125b-5p and 203a was conducted using qRT-PCR.