Phillips K

No ORCID on file · 11 papers in corpus · active 2009-2025

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  • article 3

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
  • infertility 1
  • endometrioma 1
article 2025
·doi:10.22541/au.176603595.53494581/v1

Objective: Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women of reproductive age worldwide, yet there is no accurate non-invasive diagnostic test that would help triage patients into the best practice treatment pathway. We aimed to identify a diagnostic …

2025
BMC pregnancy and childbirth ·doi:10.1186/s12884-025-07771-1

BackgroundMultimorbidity in pregnancy increases health risks to women and babies, and creates challenges for services. The aim of this study was to explore the prevalence and patterns of maternal multimorbidity in a UK population.MethodsThi…

2024
Wellcome Open Research ·doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20992.2

BackgroundBorn in Bradford (BiB) is a family cohort study with linked routine health records. We calculated the rates of common health conditions and explored differences between White European and South Asian participants.Methods21 health …

2024
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry ·doi:10.1136/jnnp-2024-333530

BackgroundMigraine is common in women of reproductive age. This study aimed to (1) describe the prevalence of migraine in pregnant women in the UK, (2) identify drugs commonly prescribed for migraine during pregnancy and (3) identify charac…

article 2023
American family physician

Infertility is the inability to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse. Evaluation and treatment are recommended earlier than 12 months when risk factors for infertility exist, if the female partner i…

2023
BMJ open ·doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068718

IntroductionOne in five pregnant women has multiple pre-existing long-term conditions in the UK. Studies have shown that maternal multiple long-term conditions are associated with adverse outcomes. This observational study aims to compare m…

article 2021
Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology ·doi:10.1080/01443615.2020.1846167

"A case of spontaneous bowel perforation in labour secondary to endometriosis." Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 41(6), pp. 988–989

2020
Facts, views & vision in ObGyn

BackgroundLaparoscopic surgery is the cornerstone of modern gynaecological surgery, with shorter hospital stays and a quicker return to normal activities. However postoperative pain remains problematic. No strategy to reduce phrenic nerve i…

2019
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews ·doi:10.1002/14651858.cd006583.pub5

BackgroundLaparoscopy is a common procedure in many surgical specialties. Complications arising from laparoscopy are often related to initial entry into the abdomen. Life-threatening complications include injury to viscera (e.g. bowel, blad…

2011
Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology ·doi:10.1016/j.berh.2011.02.005

Mechanisms underlying chronic pain differ from those underlying acute pain. In chronic pain states, central nervous system (CNS) factors appear to play particularly prominent roles. In the absence of anatomical causes of persistent pain, me…

2009
Journal of medical case reports ·doi:10.1186/1752-1947-3-9301

IntroductionThe Mirena intrauterine system has been licensed as a contraceptive in the United Kingdom since May 1995. The use of an intrauterine system as a primary method of contraception among women has been slowly increasing over the las…