Luteal function in infertile patients with endometriosis.
OBJECTIVE
Our purpose was to determine whether infertile patients who have endometriosis show luteal phase defects.


METHODS
The luteal function in 24 infertile patients who had endometriosis was compared with the luteal function in 20 patients who had unexplained infertility and did not have endometriosis (control). In both groups serum luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, progesterone, and estradiol were assayed every day throughout the menstrual cycle. Endometrial biopsy specimens were obtained from eight patients of the endometriosis group for histologic dating of the endometrium.


RESULTS
No significant differences in progesterone levels were observed between these two groups during the mid and late luteal phase. Seven of the eight patients who underwent histologic dating showed a luteal phase pattern, whereas only one patient was out of phase.


CONCLUSIONS
Infertile patients who have endometriosis do not always have luteal phase defects.
Kusuhara
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
D000328:Adult; D003338:Corpus Luteum / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008183:Luteal Phase / Q000502:physiology; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000097:blood; D011374:Progesterone / Q000097:blood
D011374:Progesterone; D004958:Estradiol; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone