Steven E. Harte

BackgroundChronic ocular surface pain (COSP), occurring either in isolation or as part of numerous ocular conditions, such as dry eye syndrome, is a leading cause of eye care visits in the United States. Conventional treatments directed at …

PURPOSE: We used prospective data from a well-characterized urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS) cohort (including interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome) to identify transi…

OBJECTIVES: An emerging concept in the chronic pain literature, high-impact chronic pain (HICP), refers to pain that occurs very frequently and results in major disruption of daily life. Previous epidemiologic investigations have noted that…

Cover: The cover image is from the Clinical Article Validation of a simple body map to measure widespread pain in urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome: A MAPP Research Network study by Clemens JQ, Locke K, Landis JR, et al. Neurourol Urody…

PURPOSE: In patients with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS), the presence of widespread pain appears to identify a distinct phenotype, with a different symptom trajectory and potentially different response to treatment than pati…

Exploring the relationship between nociplastic pain and the severity and impact of pelvic pain symptoms could lend insight into the heterogeneous symptom presentation and treatment response that complicates management of chronic pelvic pain…

AbstractFibromyalgia has been characterized by augmented cross-network functional communication between the brain's sensorimotor, default mode, and attentional (salience/ventral and dorsal) networks. However, the underlying mechanisms of th…

You have accessJournal of UrologyOriginal Research Articles1 Jan 2024Reply By Authorsis a reply to letterEditorial Comment Ishtiaq Mawla, Andrew Schrepf, Jason J. Kutch, Margaret E. Helmuth, Abigail R. Smith, Eric Ichesco, Claire C. Yang, V…

ObjectiveTo examine how often urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS) patients progressed from Pelvic Pain Only at baseline to Widespread Pain, or vice versa, during 1-year longitudinal follow-up.MethodsMen and women with UCPPS enroll…

ObjectivePelvic floor pain, abdominal wall pain, and central nervous system pain amplification can be contributing factors in chronic pelvic pain (CPP), however; limited research has investigated the association of pelvic floor, abdominal, …

Until recently, the predominant pathology of chronic pelvic pain conditions was thought to reside in the peripheral tissues. However, mounting evidence from neuroimaging studies suggests an important role of the central nervous system in th…

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether women with chronic pelvic pain and variable degrees of endometriosis demonstrate altered pain sensitivity relative to pain-free healthy women in a control group and whether such differences are related to the…