Batt Re

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess health and fertility status among women after surgical treatment of endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: Community-based gynecologic specialty practice. PATIENTS: Two hundred ninety women with new…

We summarize the epidemiologic literature on the effect of life-style factors such as cigarette smoking, alcohol and caffeine consumption, physical exercise, body mass index, and drug use on female infertility. We identified relevant papers…

In this prospective cohort study, 30 women diagnosed at laparoscopy with mild endometriosis were treated expectantly and followed for 10 years. Eleven women had primary infertility and 19 secondary infertility. Before the diagnosis of endom…

To examine the belief that women with endometriosis have "voluntarily" delayed childbirth, the authors used a case-control approach to assess the relation between sexual, contraceptive, and reproductive factors and endometriosis. A total of…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of body fat distribution with risk of endometriosis in an effort to determine whether a specific somatotype is related to the disease. METHODS: We conducted a case-control study of 88 laparoscopically …

The present study utilized a case-control design to assess the relation between menstrual cycle factors and risk of endometriosis in women age 19-45 years. From a gynecologic specialty clinic in Western New York in 1987, we identified 104 l…

We suggest that müllerianosis is a distinct form of endometriosis, separate in its pathogenesis from transplantation endometriosis of lymphatic, hematogenous, transtubal, or iatrogenic origin, and also distinct from endometriosis of coelomi…

A novel presentation of endometriosis is described in which the lesion is identified within the brim or floor of peritoneal pockets located within a crescentic band in the posterior pelvis. The predictability of these peritoneal pockets and…

Sixty-five infertile patients with moderate or severe endometriosis were treated with conservative surgery. Acosta's classification was used to demonstrate the extent of disease. In 48 women whose partners were normally fertile, 65% conceiv…

This series of studies aims to examine the ways in which young infants (14 months old) use the emotional expressions of other people to help them learn about the world around them. More specifically, we are aiming to test a new theory which…