Lone Hummelshøj

The association of pain and endometriosis was recognized with the first definitive published reports of this disorder. Unfortunately, the precise etiologies and pathways leading to nociception and pain symptoms in endometriosis remain poorl…

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to calculate costs and health-related quality of life of women with endometriosis-associated symptoms treated in referral centres. METHODS: A prospective, multi-centre, questionnaire-based survey measured costs…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of endometriosis on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and work productivity. DESIGN: Multicenter cross-sectional study with prospective recruitment. SETTING: Sixteen clinical centers in ten countries. …

Introduction: Endometriosis (the presence of endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus) affects 10% of women of reproductive age and is associated with dysmenorrhoea, pain at ovulation, dyspareunia, abnormal bleeding, chronic pelvic pain, …

The role of sex steroid hormones in reproductive function in women is well established. However, in the last two decades it has been shown that receptors for estrogens, progesterone and androgens are expressed in non reproductive tissue /or…

Endometriosis affects an estimated 176 million women worldwide during the prime years of their lives. Yet many clinical questions remain unanswered, treatment failures are common, and there is little investment in investigating disease mech…

Endometriosis affects an estimated 176 million women worldwide during the prime years of their lives. Yet many clinical questions remain unanswered, treatment failures are common, and there is litt...

AIMS: The EndoCost study aims to calculate the costs of endometriosis from a societal perspective. METHODS: This multicentre, prevalence-based cost-of-illness analysis aggregates data on endometriosis costs and quality of life from a prosp…

Endometriosis can be difficult to diagnose clinically and models that use symptoms to predict whether the disease is present or not are based on limited patient populations. Endometriosis also influences health-related quality of life, but …

Women with endometriosis have a substantial increase in risk of deep dyspareunia with respect to the general female population of corresponding age. This symptom has personal and intimate implications, including unfavorable emotional impact…

With the steadily increasing volume of endometriosis articles, and titles and abstracts readily available online, there is a growing risk that references are cited without the full articles having been read by the author(s) or by referees. …

In response to the pressing need for more efficacious and safer therapeutics for endometriosis, there have been numerous reports in the last decade of positive results from animal and in vitro studies of various compounds as potential thera…

Read the full review for this Faculty Opinions recommended article: Ectopic endometrium in human foetuses is a common event and sustains the theory of müllerianosis in the pathogenesis of endometriosis, a disease that predisposes to cancer.