Cecilia Ng

ORCID: 0000-0002-8637-9861 · 41 papers in corpus
preprint 2022
·doi:10.64628/aa.dv7nwxhrm
article 2022
Reproduction & fertility ·doi:10.1530/raf-22-0003

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
·doi:10.64628/aa.76urrsds9
preprint 2021
·doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1164738/v1

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
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-020-73389-2

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
·doi:10.1101/2020.06.16.20133231

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
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica ·doi:10.1111/aogs.12652

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
·doi:10.5301/je.5000185

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
Journal of Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Disorders ·doi:10.5301/je.5000180

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
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ·doi:10.1177/1933719113485298

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
·doi:10.5301/je.2011.8522

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
·doi:10.1002/9781444398519.ch21

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
·doi:10.1016/j.jri.2010.06.070
other 2010
Human Reproduction ·doi:10.1093/humrep/deq020

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
·doi:10.1586/17474108.4.1.61

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…