Andrew D Schrepf

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus
article 2023
Neurotrophins and Their Receptors, Novel Therapeutic Targets for Pelvic Pain in Endometriosis, Are Coordinately Regulated by IL-1β via the JNK Signaling Pathway
The American journal of pathology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajpath.2023.04.007

Pelvic pain in women with endometriosis is attributed to neuroinflammation and afferent nociceptor nerves in ectopic and eutopic endometrium. The hypothesis that uterine nociception is activated by IL-1β, a prominent cytokine in endometrios…

article 2022
Reliability and Validity of Pain and Urinary Symptom Severity Assessment in Urological Chronic Pelvic Pain: A MAPP Network Analysis
·doi:10.1097/ju.0000000000002438

PURPOSE: We assessed the reliability and validity of an efficient severity assessment for pelvic pain and urinary symptoms in urological chronic pelvic pain syndrome, which consists of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and chronic…

article 2021
Incidence and predictors of persistent pelvic pain following hysterectomy in women with chronic pelvic pain
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2021.08.038

BackgroundChronic pelvic pain is a debilitating problem that afflicts 15% to 20% of women in the United States. Although more than 200,000 hysterectomies are performed annually for the treatment of chronic pelvic pain, previous studies indi…