Endometriosis is a chronic systemic disease: clinical challenges and novel innovations

HS Taylor, AM Kotlyar, VA Flores - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Endometriosis is a common disease affecting 5–10% of women of reproductive age globally.
However, despite its prevalence, diagnosis is typically delayed by years, misdiagnosis is …

Systematic review of endometriosis pain assessment: how to choose a scale?

N Bourdel, J Alves, G Pickering, I Ramilo… - Human reproduction …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Numerous studies concerning endometriosis and pain have been reported.
However, there is no consensus on the best method to evaluate pain in endometriosis and …

The impact of endometriosis on the quality of life and the incidence of depression—a cohort study

D Warzecha, I Szymusik, M Wielgos… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The objective was to evaluate the quality of life and the incidence of depression among
women suffering from endometriosis. Afterwards, the dependency between pelvic pain, its …

Chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis: translational evidence of the relationship and implications

P Stratton, KJ Berkley - Human reproduction update, 2011 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND Many clinicians and patients believe that endometriosis-associated pain is
due to the lesions. Yet causality remains an enigma, because pain symptoms attributed to …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of pelvic pain associated with endometriosis: a committee opinion

Practice Committee of the American Society for … - Fertility and sterility, 2014 - Elsevier
Pain associated with endometriosis may involve many mechanisms and requires careful
evaluation to confirm the diagnosis and exclude other potential causes. Both medical and …

Association between endometriosis stage, lesion type, patient characteristics and severity of pelvic pain symptoms: a multivariate analysis of over 1000 patients

P Vercellini, L Fedele, G Aimi, G Pietropaolo… - Human …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND: The association between lesion type, disease stage and severity of pain
was studied in a large group of women with endometriosis to verify whether endometrial …

The pains of endometriosis

KJ Berkley, AJ Rapkin, RE Papka - Science, 2005 - science.org
Endometriosis is a disease defined by the presence of endometrial tissue outside of the
uterus. Severe pelvic pain is often associated with endometriosis, and this pain can be …

[HTML][HTML] Differences in characteristics among 1,000 women with endometriosis based on extent of disease

N Sinaii, K Plumb, L Cotton, A Lambert, S Kennedy… - Fertility and sterility, 2008 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between disease severity and patient
characteristics in endometriosis. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of self-reported survey data …

Pain typology and incident endometriosis

KC Schliep, SL Mumford, CM Peterson… - Human …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION What are the pain characteristics among women, with no prior
endometriosis diagnosis, undergoing laparoscopy or laparotomy regardless of clinical …

Deep infiltrating endometriosis: relation between severity of dysmenorrhoea and extent of disease

C Chapron, A Fauconnier, JB Dubuisson… - Human …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the precise nature of the relationship between
dysmenorrhoea (DM) and endometriosis. Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between …