Donna J. Carrico
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· 3 papers in corpus
· active 2007-2012
SUMMARY Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) affects 15% of women in the USA. These women typically have complex medical and psychosocial histories. They often have other comorbidid conditions, making diagnosis and treatment a challenge. In the urolog…
Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a chronic pelvic pain syndrome. The key symptoms are urinary urgency, frequency, pelvic pain, bowel dysfunction, and vaginal pain in the abscence of other identifiable causes such as urinary tract infection, bl…
We determined the prevalence of pelvic surgeries in women with interstitial cystitis (IC) compared to community-based controls through responses to a survey from 215 women with IC and 823 controls. Women with IC had a statistically higher p…