J. P. Hanker

Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) is a frequent and often unexplained gynecological complaint. We attempted to evaluate stress history, psychological features and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis function in a group of patients suffering f…

OBJECTIVE: Although numerous organic conditions may cause chronic pelvic pain (CPP), diagnostic laparoscopy reveals a normal pelvis in many patients with CPP. However, psychological studies yield a high frequency of psychopathology and incr…

To investigate the effects of the LH-RH agonist Buserelin [D-Ser (But)6 des-Gly10-LHRH ethylamide] on endometriosis, 64 patients were treated with 900 micrograms/d Buserelin intranasally over 6 months after histological verification of the …

Danazol has been extensively utilized in the treatment of endometriosis. The therapeutic effect of this ethisterone derivative is partly attributed to a suppression of gonadotropin secretion. It was the aim of this study to examine whether …

Patients (n = 10) with endometriosis or fibrocystic mammary disease were treated with an oral dose of 4 x 200 mg danazol for 6 months. Prolactin and gonadotropin secretion was evaluated before, and in some of them during 1, 3, and 6 months …

Seventeen infertile normoprolactinemic women with luteal phase defects were treated with epimestrol. In ten patients, normalization of the impaired luteal phase was achieved. Under epimestrol treatment, periovulatory estradiol concentration…