J S Sanfilippo

Endometriosis continues to plague women of reproductive age. It is a chronic disease leading to a decreased quality of life, infertility, and increased societal costs. The gold standard for diagnosis remains visualization and or biopsy of l…

Dysmenorrhea and pelvic pain are common complaints in the adolescent population. Although most cases are primary dysmenorrhea and easily treated with NSAIDs or OCPs, pathologic causes should be considered, especially in cases not responding…

The realm of laparoscopic surgery has extended to include the neonate as well as the pediatric patient. The advent of new and smaller instrumentation has facilitated this goal. Previous procedures exclusively relegated to laparotomy can now…

OBJECTIVE: To determine if red-haired infertile women have an increased prevalence of endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective, nonblinded. SETTING: Large, metropolitan, private hospital, associated with a university. Subspeciality care provide…

A patient seen for infertility developed severe endometriosis within 2 years of neosalpingostomy for bilateral fallopian tube obstruction. A retrospective review of infertility surgeries revealed none of 20 patients with obstructed tubes to…

Substance P is a neuropeptide that has been identified in the ovary, fallopian tube, uterus, and vagina and in the hypothalamic-pituitary axis in both an animal model and human ovaries. We sought to determine if substance P is present in pe…

Endometriosis is frequently a chronic process, which may begin soon after menarche. The process may be enhanced by mechanical obstruction. Theories of retrograde menstruation and metaplasia still remain in vogue. Endometriosis is a cause of…

Estrogen receptor (ER) and progestin receptor (PR) levels and their respective dissociation constants (Kd) were determined by titration assay and Scatchard analyses in 319 human uteri. Levels of receptors were neither age nor uterine weight…