Pelvic Congestion Syndrome - Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women

A select reference list of the more relevant papers on the interventional radiology treatment for chronic pelvic pain in women

  1. Hyun S. Kim, Amit D. Malhotra, Peter C. Rowe, Judy M. Lee, and Anthony C. Venbrux, Embolotherapy for Pelvic Congestion Syndrome: Long-term Results, J. Vasc. Interv. Radiol. 2006 17: 289-297.
  2. Pieri S, Agresti P, Morucci M, de'Medici L. Percutaneous Treatment of Pelvic Congestion Syndrome. Radiology Med 2003:105 (1-2); 76-82
  3. Venebrux A C, et al. Pelvic Congestion Syndrome (Pelvic Venous Incompetence): Impact of Ovarian and Internal Iliac Vein Embolotherapy on Menstrual Cycle and Chronic Pelvic Pain. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2002, 13:171-178.
  4. Stones R W, Mountfield J. Interventions for Treating Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2000;(2):CD000387.
  5. Venbrux AC, Lambert DL. Ovarian and Pelvic Varices in the Female Patient. In Savader SJ, Tretotola SO, eds. Venous Interventional Radiology with Clinical Perspectives. New York: Thieme 2000; 210-216.
  6. Maleux G, Stockx L, Wilms G, Marchal G. Ovarian Vein Embolization for the Teatment of Pelvic Congestion Syndrome: Long-term Technical and Clinical Results. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2000; 11:859-864.
  7. Venbrux AC, Lambert DL. Embolization of the Ovarian Veins as a Treatment for Patients who Chronic Pelvic Pain Caused by Pelvic Venous Incompetence (Pelvic Congestion Syndrome). Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol 1999; 11: 395-399.
  8. Blackwell RE, Olive DL, eds. Chronic pelvic pain: evaluation and management. New York: Springer, 1998.
  9. Cordis PR,Eclavea A, Buckley PJ, DeMaioribus A, Cockerill ML,Yeager TD. Pelvic Congestion Syndrome: Early Clinical Results after Transcatheter Ovarian Vein Embolization. J Vasc Sug 1998; 28:862-868.
  10. Machan L, Mowatt J, Hurwitz T, Doyle L, Fry P. Clinical Outcome of Women with Chronic Pelvic Pain Treated by Ovarian Vein Embolization. J Vasc Interv Radiol 1998; 9 (suppl): 185.
  11. Capasso P, Simons C, Trotteur G, Dondelinger RF, Henroleaux D, Gaspard U. Treatment of Symptomatic Pelvic Varices by Ovarian Vein Embolization. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 1997; 20:107-111.
  12. Tarazov PC, Prozorovakji KY, Ryzhov VK. Pelvic Pain Caused by Ovarian Varices: Treatment of Transcatheter Embolization. Acta Radiol 1997; 98:1023-1025.
  13. Capasso P, Simons C, Trotteur G, Dondelinger RF, Henroleaux D, Gaspard U. Treatment of Symptomatic Pelvic Varices by Ovarian Vein Embolization. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 1997; 20:107-111.
  14. Sichlau MU, Yao JST, Vogelzang L. Transcatheter Embolotherapy for the Treatment of Pelvic Congestion Syndrome. Obstet Gynecol 1994: 83:892-896.
  15. Venbrux AC, Trerotola SO. Trancatheter Embolotherapy of Varicoceles. Semin Interv Radiol 1994; 11:305-311.
  16. Zuckerman AM, Mitchell SE, Venbrux AC, et al. Percutaneous Varicocele Occlusion: Longer-term Follow-up. J Vasc Interv Radiol 1994; 5:315-319.
  17. Reyes BL, Trerotola SO, Venbrux AC, et al. Percutaneous Embolotherapy of Adolescent Varicocele: Results and Long-term Follow-up. J Vasc Interv Radiol 1994; 5:131-134.
  18. Edwards RD, Robertson JR, MacLean AB, Hemingway AP. Case Report: Pelvic Pain Syndrome-Successful Treatment of a Case by Ovarian Vein Embolization. Clin Radiol 1993; 47:429-431.
  19. Florio F, Balzano S, Nardella M, Villani G. Ovarian Varicocele Treated with Percutaneous Scleroembolization. Description of a case (in Italian). Radiol Med (Torino) 1993; 85:295-297.
  20. Robinson JC. Chronic Pelvic Pain. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol 1993; 5:740-743.
  21. Grossman SA, Sheidler VR, McGuire DB, et al. A Comparison of the Hopkins Pain Rating Instrument with Standard Visual Analog and Verbal Descriptor Scales in Patients with Cancer Pain. J Pain Symptom Manage 1992; 7:196-203.
  22. Beard RW, Kennedy RG, Gangar KF, Stones RW, Rogers V, Reginald PW, et al. Bilateral oophorectomy and hysterectomy in the treatment of intractable pelvic pain associated with pelvic congestion. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1991, 98:988-992.
  23. Adams J, Reginald PW, Franks S, Wadsworth J, Beard RW. Uterine size and endometrial thickness and the significance of cystic ovaries in women with pelvic pain due to congestion. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 1990; 97:583-587.
  24. Hobbs JT. The pelvic congestion syndrome. British Journal of Hospital Medicine 1990; 43:2000:2006.
  25. Rundqvist E, Sandholm LE, Larsson G. Treatment of Pelvic Varicosities Causing Lower Abdominal Pain with Extraperitoneal Resolution of the Left Ovarian Vein. Ann Chir Gynaecol 1984; 73:339-341.
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