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 …

The authors present a case of an interstitial extrauterine pregnancy in the intramural portion of the left oviduct after preceding ipsilateral adnectomy. Sonographic diagnosis was confirmed by the site at operation.

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…

Patients with functional amenorrhea, who did not ovulate after 3 treatment courses of clomiphene, underwent repeated LH-RH testing to evaluate the functional pituitary LH pools; pituitary PRL stores were estimated using metoclopramide (MTCL…