Marc R Laufer

Endometriosis may exert a profound negative influence on the lives of individuals with the disorder, adversely affecting quality of life, participation in daily and social activities, physical and sexual functioning, relationships, educatio…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the efficacy and safety of a novel nonhormonal therapeutic agent, cabergoline, compared with that of the standard clinical therapy, norethindrone acetate (NETA), for the treatment of endometriosis-associated pain in y…

Endometriosis is generally histopathologically defined as the presence of at least 2 of the following: endometrial stroma, Müllerian epithelium, and/or hemosiderin-laden macrophages (HLM). Despite clinically evident endometriotic lesions, b…

PROBLEM: To compare inflammatory- and immune-associated peritoneal cytokines of adolescents and adults with and without endometriosis. METHODS OF STUDY: In a nested case-control study in multiple university-affiliated scientific centers, te…

Tricky to diagnose and treat in younger women, the painful condition is the leading cause of secondary dysmenorrhea.

Endometriosis is a painful gynecologic disease affecting one in ten reproductive aged women worldwide. Few studies have correlated this symptomatology with biomarker levels among women with and without endometriosis, and no studies correlat…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis symptoms often start at a young age, and the time between symptom onset and endometriosis diagnosis can be several years. It is not clear whether the symptoms that are experienced by adolescents differ from adults.…