By Özge ÖzkayaSerologic Signals of Nerve Injury in Endometriosis
By Özge Özkaya
Patients with fibromyalgia demonstrated serologic evidence of ongoing neuronal injury comparable to small fibre neuropathy, according to a new study published in Pain Reports. The study also showed that patients with endometriosis exhibited an intermediate neurofilament light chain (NfL) profile,…
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By Ayse AyhanThe Endometriosis–Brain Connection
By Ayse Ayhan
A study published in Communications Biology (Nature Portfolio), the teaam led by Dr. Scott Holmes at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, explored whether long-standing endometriosis-associated pain is linked to differences in brain structure, and whether these patterns vary with age. The researchers…
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Rethinking Pain in Deep Endometriosis
By Özge Özkaya
A new study published in Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics reports that more than one-third of women with deep endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain exhibit neuropathic-like pain, a pain phenotype associated with greater symptom severity and poorer quality of life.…
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By Nasuhi Engin AydinA revolutionary view on endometriosis related pain
By Nasuhi Engin Aydin
Dr. Lydia Coxon and colleagues from Oxford University, UK, have recently published their cross-sectional study on the categorization of endometriosis-related pain in the journal "Frontiers in Pain Research". As a chronic inflammatory condition, endometriosis results in pelvic pain, dysmenorrhea, and…
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