BACKGROUND The incidence of chronic pain after hysterectomy is reported to be up to 30%, but the relative role of different pathogenic factors has not been defined. This study aimed to assess the predictive value of preoperative abdominal and vaginal mechanosensitivity for the subsequent development of acute and chronic pain after hysterectomy. METHODS Ninety women undergoing hysterectomy for...

Chronic pelvic pain is a debilitating, life-altering syndrome that negatively affects a woman's quality of life and personal relationships. Many women continue to suffer with pelvic pain despite having undergone multiple medical and surgical treatments. Unfortunately, some women are incorrectly labeled as having psychological illness when organic disease may be present. I report a case of a wom...

Pelvic pain is a common condition which significantly deteriorates health-related quality of life. The most commonly identified causes of pain in the pelvic region are gynaecologic, urologic, gastrointestinal, neurological, and musculoskeletal. However, in up to 33% of patients the source of this symptom is not identified, frustrating both patients and health-care professionals. Pelvic pain may...

Background Endometriosis is a complex disease with a spectrum of pain symptoms from mild dysmenorrhea to debilitating pelvic pain. There is no concrete evidence in the literature whether endometriotic cyst per se, causes pain spectrum related to the disease. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of surgical removal of endometriomas on pain symptoms. MaterialsAndMethods In this...

Acute pelvic pain, defined as the sudden onset of lower abdominal or pelvic pain lasting less than 3 months [1], is a common urgent clinical presentation. Women frequently present to the emergency department after hours. More than one third of women of reproductive age experience nonmenstrual pelvic pain [2]. Acute pelvic pain can pose a diagnostic challenge because the clinical history, sympto...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to describe, on the basis of specific classification criteria and for a period of two years after delivery, the prognosis for women suffering from pregnancy-related pelvic joint pain, and to describe the characteristics influencing the prognosis. METHODS One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine pregnant women who were booked for delivery at Odense...

Pelvic pain is a debilitating disorder that can drastically affect the quality of life and often hinder with normal daily activities. The many facets of pelvic pain include prostatitis, bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis, irritable bowel syndrome, endometriosis, and so on. However, more than often either the diagnosis is difficult or the pelvic pain does not completely resolve by treat...

OBJECTIVES Pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) is associated with pelvic vein reflux (PVR), occasionally secondary to venous compression. Its symptoms, usually intra-pelvic, are alleviated following the abolition of this reflux by pelvic vein embolisation (PVE). The objective of this report is to present two cases of left hip pain, erroneously diagnosed as osteoarthritis, which disappeared after s...

Chronic pelvic pain is a common problem with variable etiology. The sympathetic nervous system plays an important role in the transmission of visceral pain regardless of its etiology. Sympathetic nerve block is effective and safe for treatment of pelvic visceral pain. One of them, the inferior hypogastric plexus, is not easily assessable to blockade by local anesthetics and neurolytic agents. I...