Stephen Kennedy
ORCID: 0000-0002-7106-2458
· 157 papers in corpus
review
1999
Peritoneal fluid is a specific microenvironment. It originates mainly as an ovarian exudation product due to increased vascular permeability, and contains large amounts of macrophages and their secretion products, which include growth facto…
observational
1999
OBJECTIVES: To describe duration of symptoms and patterns of diagnosis and referral in women with chronic pelvic pain. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort analysis of the MediPlus UK Primary Care Database. SETTING: One hundred and thirty-six gen…
observational
1999
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the prevalence and incidence in primary care of chronic pelvic pain in women in the UK. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of MediPlus UK Primary Care Database. SETTING: One hundred and thirty-six general practices i…
observational
1999
MediPlus UK Primary Care Database. Setting One hundred and thirty-six general practices in the UK. Population From 284,162 women aged 12-70 who were registered on the database and who had a general practice contact in 1991,24,053 chronic pe…
other
1999
Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity, most commonly on the ovary and peritoneum. The aetiology of endometriosis is not understood, although the adhesion of endometrial ce…
review
1999
There is mounting evidence that endometriosis is inherited as a complex trait, like diabetes or asthma. This implies there are environmental factors, such as dioxin, that are interacting with multiple genetic susceptibility loci to produce …
meta-analysis
1998
This systematic review presents both the physiological and symptom-based studies which have explored gastrointestinal variation across the menstrual cycle. Understanding this variation may be helpful in identifying the origin of pelvic pain…
other
1998
review
1998
Endometriosis is probably a complex trait, like diabetes, hypertension or asthma, which implies that the disease is caused by an interaction between multiple genes and the environment. This paper reviews the evidence, in both human and nonh…
meta-analysis
1998
OBJECTIVE: To obtain a prevalence estimate for chronic pelvic pain in women in the United Kingdom by analysing published data. DESIGN: Systematic review of published papers. SETTING: The general population or hospitals in the United Kingd…
observational
1997
OBJECTIVE: To describe the occurrence of endometriosis in monozygotic twins. DESIGN: Postal questionnaire plus confirmation of disease status. SETTING: Twins were recruited via the American Endometriosis Association and the National Endom…
diagnostic-accuracy
1997
We assessed the value of hysterosalpingo-contrast sonography (HyCoSy) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as alternatives to laparoscopy and dye insufflation with or without hysteroscopy in the investigation of infertility. A total of 19 w…
review
1997
It is likely that endometriosis is a common multifactorial disease, like diabetes and asthma, caused by an interaction between multiple gene loci and the environment. Such conditions do not have a clear Mendelian pattern of inheritance. Thi…
meta-analysis
1997
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a major women's health-care problem. It causes pain and/or infertility, and affects millions of women worldwide. Endometriosis is defined according to histological criteria by the presence of tissue resembling e…
other
1997
other
1997
1997
observational
1996
We investigated the length of time between the onset of pain symptoms and the surgical diagnosis of endometriosis in women from the UK and the USA. A total of 218 women with surgically confirmed disease, recruited through endometriosis self…
other
1996
This study describes the introduction of hysterosalpingo-contrast sonography (HyCoSy) as a first line outpatient investigation of uterine and tubal factors in two fertility units. 136 infertile women had transvaginal scanning before and dur…
other
1995
PURPOSE: The study aimed to identify families with endometriosis and to document disease severity within the families and the clinical characteristics of the affected women. RESULTS: Two hundred and thirty women with surgically confirmed e…
other
1994
Journal Article Dioxin pollution and endometriosis in Belgium Get access P.R. Koninckx, P.R. Koninckx 3 1Division of Gynaecologic Endoscopic Surgery, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, K.U.LeuvenB–30…
observational
1993
The present study investigates the specificity of anti-endometrial antibodies present in serum of women with endometriosis. A two colour indirect immuno-histochemical method was used, so that the antigenic reactivity of endogenous immunoglo…
1992
1992
case-report
1991