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PURPOSE: To determine if severe periovulatory diarrhea in a woman with Crohn's disease for just one day may be related to increased permeability of the large bowel related to hormonal changes that occur at this time of menstrual cycle. MATE…

PURPOSE: To determine if treatment with dextroamphetamine sulfate can reduce pelvic pain that was attributed to adenomyosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Dextroamphetamine sulfate was given to a 32-year-old woman who suffered on a daily basis fro…

PURPOSE: To describe the role of various surgical therapies for the relief of pelvic pain. METHODS: The latest studies involving surgical therapies for relief of pelvic pain are reviewed and the pros and cons are discussed. RESULTS: Laparos…

PURPOSE: To describe medical therapeutic options for chronic pelvic pain. Furthermore to describe some new concepts in the etiology of chronic pelvic pain leading to some novel therapies. METHODS: The benefits and risks of various medical …

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of endometriosis on the proliferation of the endometrium as determined by sonographic measurements of endometrial thickness and echo pattern at peak follicular maturation. A prospect…

PURPOSE: To determine the effect of the presence of endometriosis on the delivered pregnancy rate following in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer. METHODS: A retrospective cohort analysis of fresh or frozen embryo transfer in women with di…

PURPOSE: To determine whether endometriosis has an effect on the uterine environment vs the oocyte itself. METHODS: A retrospective study comparing pregnancy outcome of infertile donors sharing oocytes with donor egg recipients according to…

PURPOSE: To corroborate or refute a previous case report from 20 years ago whether treatment with sympathomimetic amines is effective in controlling chronic urticaria. METHODS: All cases of chronic urticaria in our reproductive endocrinolog…

INTRODUCTION: Mild endometriosis may be present in fertile or infertile women. When present in infertile women it could be merely an innocent bystander, and some other problem is causing the difficulty in conceiving, or it may in some way b…

INTRODUCTION: Mild endometriosis may be present in fertile or infertile women. When present in infertile women it could be merely an innocent bystander, and some other problem is causing the difficulty in conceiving, or it may in some way b…

PURPOSE: Follow-up of a woman with a serum CA-125 level > 1000 U/mL where laparoscopy only found endometriosis. METHODS: Case report-- re-evaluation several years later. RESULTS: Extensive clear-cell carcinoma of ovary with metastases leadi…

A case is presented of a young adult male diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia who was treated with busulphan and cyclophosphamide, but not total body irradiation, with subsequent bone marrow transplantation. After surviving for 5 years, …

PROBLEM: The objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation of menstrual CA-125 levels with pregnancy rates (PRs) after 6 months of treatment for infertility. METHOD: The sample consisted of a heterogenous group of 160 women who so…

The objective of this prospective comparative study was to investigate the relationship of endometriosis to endometrial thickness and sonographic echo pattern prior to the administration of human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG). Patients were…

Serum CA 125 concentrations are elevated in some women with endometriosis; however, the low sensitivity and specificity of the assay have made it impractical to use it as a diagnostic test for endometriosis. Recently a second-generation CA …

OBJECTIVE: To examine variations in CA 125 levels during the three phases of the menstrual cycle in women with and without endometriosis. METHODS: One hundred infertile women were studied prospectively. CA 125 levels were measured during me…

Two women with elevated preoperative serum CA-125 levels were found to have extensive endometriosis - one, the highest level related to endometriosis ever reported in the English literature. Endometriosis was found to be etiologic as seen b…

Several reports suggest that women with endometriosis have a higher risk of spontaneous abortions when left untreated; however, these studies did not control for the presence of possible luteal phase defects. This study was designed to docu…

To evaluate the effect of fulguration of endometriotic implants in patients with mild endometriosis, we divided 123 patients into two groups: (A) patients whose endometriotic implants were coagulated, and (B) patients whose implants were le…