Valerie Ratts

ORCID: 0009-0002-4083-7617 · 11 papers in corpus · active 2001-2025

Study types

  • article 10
  • preprint 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 5
  • infertility 1
article 2025
CHARACTERIZING UTERINE PERISTALSIS ACROSS THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE IN STAGE I-II VERSUS STAGE III-IV ENDOMETRIOSIS
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2025.07.916
article 2024
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL IMAGING IDENTIFIES DISRUPTED UTERINE PERISTALSIS IN WOMEN WITH ENDOMETRIOSIS
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2024.07.293
article 2024
Noninvasive imaging of 4D electrical activation patterns of uterine peristalsis during normal menstrual cycles
·doi:10.1038/s44294-023-00003-x

Abstract Uterine peristalsis, characterized by spontaneous slow-wave contractions of the subendometrial layer of the uterine myometrium, occurs throughout the menstrual cycle. Disruptions in peristalsis patterns may occur in women experienc…

article 2024
The use of transvaginal ultrasound alters physiologic uterine peristalsis in gynecologic participants
·doi:10.1016/j.xfre.2024.06.004

ObjectiveTo study whether transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) affected the uterine peristalsis (UP) patterns in nonpregnant participants.DesignInstitutional review board–approved, prospective observational cohort study. The noninvasive UP imagin…

article 2023
DIRECTION AND LATERALITY OF UTERINE PERISTALSIS WAVES DURING THE PERI-OVULATORY PHASE
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2023.08.877
preprint 2023
Noninvasive electrophysiological imaging identifies 4D uterine peristalsis patterns in subjects with normal menstrual cycles and patients with endometriosis
Research square ·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2432192/v1

Throughout the menstrual cycle, spontaneous mild contractions in the inner layer of the uterine smooth muscle cause uterine peristalsis, which plays a critical role in normal menstruation and fertility. Disruptions in peristalsis patterns m…

article 2009
Adenomyotic Cyst in an Adolescent Girl
Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.jpag.2008.05.011
article 2007
Diagnosis and management of didelphic uterus, obstructed hemivagina and ipsilateral renal agenesis (Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome): the Washington University experience
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.188
article 2007
PCOS, obesity, and IVF
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.217
article 2006
O-253
·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.07.289
article 2001
Fertility Treatment in the Forty and Older Woman
·doi:10.1023/a:1013159116180