Cecilia Ng
ORCID: 0000-0002-8637-9861
· 41 papers in corpus
preprint
2022
article
2022
ABSTRACT: Endometriosis is a common yet under-recognised chronic disease with one in nine (more than 830,000) women and those assigned female at birth diagnosed with endometriosis by the age of 44 years in Australia. In 2018, Australia was …
preprint
2022
preprint
2021
Abstract Background Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) causes non-cyclical pelvic pain, period pain, fatigue and other painful symptoms. Current medical and surgical management strategies are often not sufficient to manage these symptoms and may lea…
article
2020
Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) affects a significant number of women worldwide. Internationally, people with endometriosis report significant negative impact across many areas of their life. We aimed to use an online survey using the EndoCost to…
preprint
2020
Abstract Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) affects a significant number of women worldwide. Internationally, people with endometriosis report significant negative impact across many areas of their life. We aimed to use an online survey using the En…
article
2015
OBJECTIVE: To study the density of nerve fibers in cases of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) of the rectovaginal septum in relation to various clinical factors. DESIGN: A research laboratory-based study. SETTING: A tertiary center toge…
article
2014
Purpose Endometriosis is a gynecological disease often characterized by severe pelvic pain, including perimenstrual and intermenstrual pain and dyspareunia. Sensory nerve fibers within peritoneal lesions have previously been shown to contri…
article
2014
BACKGROUND: Dysfunctional immune response may be implicated in endometriosis pathogenesis, and dendritic cells (DC) may play greater roles in this response than previously recognized. This study set out to evaluate peripheral blood and endo…
article
2013
Recent studies suggest that changes in certain uterine immune cell populations in endometrium of women with endometriosis are likely to precede changes at ectopic sites. This preliminary study is a first look into the function of uterine-dr…
article
2013
article
2011
Purpose While the exact pathogenesis of endometriosis remains unclear, it has been hypothesized that fragments of viable endometrial tissue shed at menstruation can transit via the lymphatic circulation and establish endometriotic lesions a…
other
2011
Endometriosis has been recognized as the principal cause of pelvic pain in most modern industrialized societies for the past 20 years, but mechanisms are remarkably poorly understood. There is great variability in the types and severity of …
article
2010
other
2010
BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is an inflammatory condition, associated with highly dysregulated immune response at both uterine and peritoneal levels. Surprisingly, Foxp3+ regulatory T-cells, which control and suppress a range of immune respons…
article
2008
Endometriosis is a disease that still presents many puzzles to clinicians and basic research scientists. Until recently, it has been regarded as a condition that arises when normal endometrium adheres to the peritoneal surface and then grow…