Most women experiencing endometriosis-associated pain have chronic pelvic pain. Pain symptoms ascribed to endometriosis and their severity correlate poorly with lesion characteristics and occur in women without endometriosis. Both endometri…
OBJECTIVE: To study whether pain location is related to lesion location in women with chronic pelvic pain and biopsy-proven endometriosis. METHODS: A secondary analysis was performed to compare self-reported pain location with recorded lap…
OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of patient-reported, physician-diagnosed comorbid conditions in women with endometriosis. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of self-reported survey data. SETTING: Academic research. PATIENT(S): Four thousa…
BACKGROUND: Many clinicians and patients believe that endometriosis-associated pain is due to the lesions. Yet causality remains an enigma, because pain symptoms attributed to endometriosis occur in women without endometriosis and because p…
OBJECTIVE: To test potential contraceptive mechanisms of the selective P receptor modulator CDB-2914 in the early luteal phase. DESIGN: Prospective randomized clinical trial. SETTING: Clinical research center. PATIENT(S): Fifty-six women…
Endometriosis has been associated with pain and infertility. The gold standard for the diagnosis of endometriosis has been visual inspection by laparoscopy, preferably with histologic confirmation. Because there is no good noninvasive test …
OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of migraine in women with chronic pelvic pain with and without endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospective study of headache, pelvic pain, and quality of life before laparoscopic surgery for pelvic pain. Endomet…
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether first physician seen and symptoms beginning in adolescence have an impact on the diagnostic experience of endometriosis. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of self-reported survey data. SETTING: Academic researc…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the expression of biomarkers of implantation, glycodelin A (GdA), osteopontin (OPN), lysophosphatidic acid receptor 3 (LPA3), and HOXA10, in eutopic endometrium of women with and without endometriosis. DESIGN: Prospe…
OBJECTIVE: To develop a model that uses individual and lesion characteristics to help surgeons choose lesions that have a high probability of containing histologically confirmed endometriosis. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of prospectively co…
Standardized entry criteria and outcome measures for clinical trials in endometriosis-related pain would facilitate the comparison of trial results and the production of systematic reviews, improving evidence-based practice in this area. Th…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether 6 months of raloxifene was effective in treatment of chronic pelvic pain in women with endometriosis. METHODS: Women with chronic pelvic pain and no endometriosis treatment for 6 months underwent laparoscopy …
BACKGROUND: Aplastic anemia (AA) complicated by menorrhagia is treated with transfusion and hormonal therapy. When bleeding is life-threatening, balloon endometrial ablation can safely be used to treat menorrhagia in selected patients. CAS…
OBJECTIVE: To correlate histology with endometriosis characteristics. DESIGN: Secondary data analysis. SETTING: Government research hospital. PATIENT(S): One hundred thirty-three women with chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis who under…
OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between disease severity and patient characteristics in endometriosis. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of self-reported survey data. SETTING: Academic research setting. PATIENT(S): One thousand wome…
Recurrent chronic pelvic pain should prompt physicians to reassess the patient. The threshold to perform laparoscopy, and to consider and surgically treat all potential disease associated with pain, even non-gynecologic etiologies, should b…
OBJECTIVE: To report the identification of struma ovarii in a patient with a history of struma ovarii and new hyperthyroidism. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: Academic research hospital. PATIENT(S): A woman with hyperthyroidism who has str…
OBJECTIVE: To examine the lifetime utilization and perceived benefit of medical treatments and surgical procedures for endometriosis-related symptoms. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of self-reported survey data. SETTING: Academic research …