Chung MK

BACKGROUND: Chronic pelvic pain remains challenging for physicians to manage due to central and peripheral sensitization and multiple pain generators including the bladder, pelvic floor, and pudendal nerve. Pain management providers have us…

A 50-year-old woman with a five-and-a-half-year history of dyspareunia was successfully treated with an integrative medicine approach, including Neural Therapy, osteopathic therapy, acupuncture, and trigger point therapy, resulting in compl…

Despite enthusiastic efforts directed at elucidating critical underlying mechanisms towards the identification of novel therapeutic targets for severe acute pancreatitis (SAP), the disease remains without a specific therapy to be executed w…

PURPOSE: To review the feasibility of laparoscopic ureteroneocystostomy with extracorporeal eversion of the ureteral end in various distal ureteral lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective review of 5 laparoscopic proce…

ObjectiveWe evaluated the prevalence of positive potassium sensitivity and cystoscopy with hydrodistention findings in patients with overactive bladder.MethodThis was a prospective cohort study of 98 patients who presented with overactive b…

BACKGROUND: Interstitial cystitis is a clinical syndrome characterized by symptoms of pelvic pain, urinary urgency and frequency, and nocturia. It can be difficult to accurately identify interstitial cystitis because the symptoms overlap ma…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of interstitial cystitis and endometriosis in patients with chronic pelvic pain. METHODS: A prospective analysis was conducted in 178 women with CPP who presented with bladder base/anterior vaginal wal…

OBJECTIVES: Hysterectomies may be performed unnecessarily in women with chronic pelvic pain if the diagnosis of interstitial cystitis is not considered. The objectives of this study were to investigate the prevalence of interstitial cystiti…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the value in the initial laparoscopic and cystoscopic evaluation of avoiding the unnecessary delay in diagnosing the "evil twins" of chronic pelvic pain syndrome, endometriosis and interstitial cystitis. METHODS: We …

ObjectivesTo determine whether a modified technique for laparoscopic extracorporal oophorectomy is less complicated and safer than traditional laparoscopic oophorectomy.MethodsFour obese patients in their second trimester underwent open lap…