A Call for New Theories on the Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology of Endometriosis

doi:10.1016/j.jmig.2024.02.004

. 2024 May;31(5):371-377.

doi: 10.1016/j.jmig.2024.02.004. Epub 2024 Feb 15.

A Call for New Theories on the Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology of Endometriosis

Endometriosis Initiative Group

Collaborators, Affiliations

Collaborators

Endometriosis Initiative Group:
Michel Canis¹, Jason Abbott², Mauricio Abrao³, Moamar Al-Jefout⁴, Mohamed Bedaiwy⁵, Giuseppe Benagiano⁶, Katherine A Burns⁷, Michel Canis¹, Francisco Carmona⁸, Charles Chapron⁹, Hilary O D Critchley¹⁰, Dominique de Ziegler¹¹, Tommaso Falcone¹², Asgerally Fazleabas¹³, Simone Ferrero¹⁴, Juan A Garcia-Velasco¹⁵, Caroline Gargett¹⁶, Erin Greaves¹⁷, Linda G Griffith¹⁸, Sun-Wei Guo¹⁹, Marwan Habiba²⁰, Tasuku Harada²¹, Mary Louise Hull²², Neil P Johnson²³, Yuval Kaufman²⁴, Keith B Issacson²⁵, Khaleque N Khan²⁶, Mee-Ran Kim²⁷, Philippe A Koninckx²⁸, Bruce A Lessey²⁹, Dan Martin³⁰, Sachiko Matsuzaki³¹, Gita Mishra³², Yutaka Osuga³³, Felice Petraglia³⁴, Alexander Popov³⁵, Horace Roman³⁶, Andrea Romano³⁷, Philippa Saunders³⁸, Tamer Seckin³⁹, Edgardo Somigliana⁴⁰, Hugh S Taylor⁴¹, Robert N Taylor⁴², Paolo Vercellini⁴⁰, Paola Vigano⁴³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Dr. Canis).
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's and Children's Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Abbott).
³ Gynecologic Division, BP - A Beneficencia Portuguesa de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, BR. Disciplina de Ginecologia, Departamento de Obstetricia e Ginecologia, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil (Abrao).
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Al-Jefout).
⁵ Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Bedaiwy).
⁶ Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy (Benagiano).
⁷ Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio (Burns).
⁸ Gynecology Department, Clinic Institute of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Neonatology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (Carmona).
⁹ Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics II, and Reproductive Medicine, Faculté de Santé, Cochin, Paris, France (Chapron).
¹⁰ Centre for Reproductive Health, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Critchley).
¹¹ Hospital Foch, Universite de Paris Ouest, France (de Ziegler).
¹² Cleveland Clinic Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Health Institute, Cleveland, Ohio (Falcone).
¹³ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Fazleabas).
¹⁴ IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy (Ferrero).
¹⁵ IVI RMA, Global Research Alliance, IVI RMA, Madrid, Spain (Garcia-Velasco); Spain Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain (Garcia-Velasco).
¹⁶ The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Gargett); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Gargett).
¹⁷ Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom (Greaves).
¹⁸ Biological Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Griffith).
¹⁹ Shanghai Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Dr. Guo).
²⁰ Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom (Habiba); Women and Perinatal Services, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicestershire, United Kingdom (Habiba).
²¹ Tottori University Hospital, Tottori, Japan (Harada).
²² Endometriosis Group, Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide. Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide and Embrace Fertility, No. 1. The Parade, Norwood, Adelaide, Australia (Hull).
²³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Flinders University, Adelaide. Australia (Johnson); Auckland Gynecology Group and Repromed Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (Johnson); Flinders Fertility, Adelaide, Australia (Johnson); Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia (Johnson).
²⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Lady Davies Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel (Kaufman).
²⁵ Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA (Issacson).
²⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Clinical and Translational Research Center, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan (Khan).
²⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Kim).
²⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (Koninckx).
²⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Lessey).
³⁰ University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee (Martin).
³¹ CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Chirurgie Gynécologique, Clermont-Ferrand, France; Université Clermont Auvergne, Institut Pascal, UMR6602, CNRS/UCA/SIGMA, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Matsuzaki).
³² Australia Women and Girls' Health Research Centre, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Mishra).
³³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Osuga).
³⁴ Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Experimental, Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy (Petraglia).
³⁵ Department of Operative Gynecology with Oncology, Moscow Regional Scientific Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Moscow, Russian Federation (Popov).
³⁶ IFEMEndo, Clinique Tivoli-Ducos, Bordeaux, France (Roman).
³⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, GROW-School for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands (Romano).
³⁸ Centre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh BioQuarter, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Saunders).
³⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lenox Hill Hospital - Northwell Health/Zucker School of Medicine, New York, New York (Seckin).
⁴⁰ Academic Center for Research on Adenomyosis and Endometriosis, Department of Clinical Science and Community Health, Università degli Studi and Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy (Somigliana, Vercellini).
⁴¹ Section of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (Taylor).
⁴² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York (Taylor).
⁴³ Infertility Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy (Vigano).

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2024.02.004

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A Call for New Theories on the Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology of Endometriosis

Endometriosis Initiative Group. J Minim Invasive Gynecol. 2024 May.

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. 2024 May;31(5):371-377.

doi: 10.1016/j.jmig.2024.02.004. Epub 2024 Feb 15.

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Endometriosis Initiative Group

Collaborators

Endometriosis Initiative Group:
Michel Canis¹, Jason Abbott², Mauricio Abrao³, Moamar Al-Jefout⁴, Mohamed Bedaiwy⁵, Giuseppe Benagiano⁶, Katherine A Burns⁷, Michel Canis¹, Francisco Carmona⁸, Charles Chapron⁹, Hilary O D Critchley¹⁰, Dominique de Ziegler¹¹, Tommaso Falcone¹², Asgerally Fazleabas¹³, Simone Ferrero¹⁴, Juan A Garcia-Velasco¹⁵, Caroline Gargett¹⁶, Erin Greaves¹⁷, Linda G Griffith¹⁸, Sun-Wei Guo¹⁹, Marwan Habiba²⁰, Tasuku Harada²¹, Mary Louise Hull²², Neil P Johnson²³, Yuval Kaufman²⁴, Keith B Issacson²⁵, Khaleque N Khan²⁶, Mee-Ran Kim²⁷, Philippe A Koninckx²⁸, Bruce A Lessey²⁹, Dan Martin³⁰, Sachiko Matsuzaki³¹, Gita Mishra³², Yutaka Osuga³³, Felice Petraglia³⁴, Alexander Popov³⁵, Horace Roman³⁶, Andrea Romano³⁷, Philippa Saunders³⁸, Tamer Seckin³⁹, Edgardo Somigliana⁴⁰, Hugh S Taylor⁴¹, Robert N Taylor⁴², Paolo Vercellini⁴⁰, Paola Vigano⁴³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Dr. Canis).
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's and Children's Health, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Abbott).
³ Gynecologic Division, BP - A Beneficencia Portuguesa de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, BR. Disciplina de Ginecologia, Departamento de Obstetricia e Ginecologia, Faculdade de Medicina FMUSP, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil (Abrao).
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Al-Jefout).
⁵ Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Bedaiwy).
⁶ Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy (Benagiano).
⁷ Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio (Burns).
⁸ Gynecology Department, Clinic Institute of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Neonatology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (Carmona).
⁹ Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics II, and Reproductive Medicine, Faculté de Santé, Cochin, Paris, France (Chapron).
¹⁰ Centre for Reproductive Health, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Critchley).
¹¹ Hospital Foch, Universite de Paris Ouest, France (de Ziegler).
¹² Cleveland Clinic Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Health Institute, Cleveland, Ohio (Falcone).
¹³ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Fazleabas).
¹⁴ IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy (Ferrero).
¹⁵ IVI RMA, Global Research Alliance, IVI RMA, Madrid, Spain (Garcia-Velasco); Spain Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain (Garcia-Velasco).
¹⁶ The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Gargett); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Gargett).
¹⁷ Division of Biomedical Sciences, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom (Greaves).
¹⁸ Biological Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Griffith).
¹⁹ Shanghai Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (Dr. Guo).
²⁰ Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom (Habiba); Women and Perinatal Services, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicestershire, United Kingdom (Habiba).
²¹ Tottori University Hospital, Tottori, Japan (Harada).
²² Endometriosis Group, Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide. Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide and Embrace Fertility, No. 1. The Parade, Norwood, Adelaide, Australia (Hull).
²³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Flinders University, Adelaide. Australia (Johnson); Auckland Gynecology Group and Repromed Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (Johnson); Flinders Fertility, Adelaide, Australia (Johnson); Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia (Johnson).
²⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Lady Davies Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel (Kaufman).
²⁵ Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA (Issacson).
²⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Clinical and Translational Research Center, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan (Khan).
²⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea (Kim).
²⁸ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (Koninckx).
²⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Lessey).
³⁰ University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee (Martin).
³¹ CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Chirurgie Gynécologique, Clermont-Ferrand, France; Université Clermont Auvergne, Institut Pascal, UMR6602, CNRS/UCA/SIGMA, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Matsuzaki).
³² Australia Women and Girls' Health Research Centre, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Mishra).
³³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (Osuga).
³⁴ Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Experimental, Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy (Petraglia).
³⁵ Department of Operative Gynecology with Oncology, Moscow Regional Scientific Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Moscow, Russian Federation (Popov).
³⁶ IFEMEndo, Clinique Tivoli-Ducos, Bordeaux, France (Roman).
³⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, GROW-School for Oncology and Reproduction, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands (Romano).
³⁸ Centre for Inflammation Research, Institute for Regeneration and Repair, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh BioQuarter, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Saunders).
³⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lenox Hill Hospital - Northwell Health/Zucker School of Medicine, New York, New York (Seckin).
⁴⁰ Academic Center for Research on Adenomyosis and Endometriosis, Department of Clinical Science and Community Health, Università degli Studi and Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy (Somigliana, Vercellini).
⁴¹ Section of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (Taylor).
⁴² Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York (Taylor).
⁴³ Infertility Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy (Vigano).

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