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Ultrasound Assessment of the Abdominal Wall Muscles in Women with and without Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is one of the most common gynecological disorders in women of reproductive age that may affect quality of life. It is believed that the underlying cause of PD may be the excessive production of prostaglandins (PGs), however, between 20%–25% of women with PD did...

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Autores principales: Romero-Morales, Carlos, de la Cueva-Reguera, Mónica, Miñambres-Vallejo, Beatriz, Ruiz-Ruiz, Beatriz, Calvo-Lobo, César, Casado-Hernández, Israel, López-López, Daniel, Abuín-Porras, Vanesa
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32197472
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10030166
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author Romero-Morales, Carlos
de la Cueva-Reguera, Mónica
Miñambres-Vallejo, Beatriz
Ruiz-Ruiz, Beatriz
Calvo-Lobo, César
Casado-Hernández, Israel
López-López, Daniel
Abuín-Porras, Vanesa
author_facet Romero-Morales, Carlos
de la Cueva-Reguera, Mónica
Miñambres-Vallejo, Beatriz
Ruiz-Ruiz, Beatriz
Calvo-Lobo, César
Casado-Hernández, Israel
López-López, Daniel
Abuín-Porras, Vanesa
author_sort Romero-Morales, Carlos
collection PubMed
description Background: Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is one of the most common gynecological disorders in women of reproductive age that may affect quality of life. It is believed that the underlying cause of PD may be the excessive production of prostaglandins (PGs), however, between 20%–25% of women with PD did not respond to pharmacological treatments, showing that nociceptive mechanisms underlying PD are still not understood. The purpose of this study was to measure and compare, through the use of ultrasound imaging, the thickness at rest of the abdominal wall, as well as the interrecti distance (IRD), in women with and without PD. Methods: A cross-sectional study has been performed using ultrasound imaging (USI) to measure the resting thickness of the external oblique (EO), internal oblique (IO), transversus abdominis (TrAb), rectus abdominis (RA), as well as the IRD in a sample of 39 women, 19 with PD and 20 without PD (median ± IR age: 20 ± 4 and 22.5 ± 7 years, respectively). Results: Findings of muscular thickness did not reveal statically significant differences (p < 0.05) in EO, IO, TrAb, RA, and the IRD between the PD group and control group. Conclusions: These findings suggest that the thickness of the abdominal wall is not associated with PD.
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spelling pubmed-71511532020-04-20 Ultrasound Assessment of the Abdominal Wall Muscles in Women with and without Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Cross-Sectional Study Romero-Morales, Carlos de la Cueva-Reguera, Mónica Miñambres-Vallejo, Beatriz Ruiz-Ruiz, Beatriz Calvo-Lobo, César Casado-Hernández, Israel López-López, Daniel Abuín-Porras, Vanesa Diagnostics (Basel) Article Background: Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is one of the most common gynecological disorders in women of reproductive age that may affect quality of life. It is believed that the underlying cause of PD may be the excessive production of prostaglandins (PGs), however, between 20%–25% of women with PD did not respond to pharmacological treatments, showing that nociceptive mechanisms underlying PD are still not understood. The purpose of this study was to measure and compare, through the use of ultrasound imaging, the thickness at rest of the abdominal wall, as well as the interrecti distance (IRD), in women with and without PD. Methods: A cross-sectional study has been performed using ultrasound imaging (USI) to measure the resting thickness of the external oblique (EO), internal oblique (IO), transversus abdominis (TrAb), rectus abdominis (RA), as well as the IRD in a sample of 39 women, 19 with PD and 20 without PD (median ± IR age: 20 ± 4 and 22.5 ± 7 years, respectively). Results: Findings of muscular thickness did not reveal statically significant differences (p < 0.05) in EO, IO, TrAb, RA, and the IRD between the PD group and control group. Conclusions: These findings suggest that the thickness of the abdominal wall is not associated with PD. MDPI 2020-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7151153/ /pubmed/32197472 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10030166 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Romero-Morales, Carlos
de la Cueva-Reguera, Mónica
Miñambres-Vallejo, Beatriz
Ruiz-Ruiz, Beatriz
Calvo-Lobo, César
Casado-Hernández, Israel
López-López, Daniel
Abuín-Porras, Vanesa
Ultrasound Assessment of the Abdominal Wall Muscles in Women with and without Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Ultrasound Assessment of the Abdominal Wall Muscles in Women with and without Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Ultrasound Assessment of the Abdominal Wall Muscles in Women with and without Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Ultrasound Assessment of the Abdominal Wall Muscles in Women with and without Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Ultrasound Assessment of the Abdominal Wall Muscles in Women with and without Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Ultrasound Assessment of the Abdominal Wall Muscles in Women with and without Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort ultrasound assessment of the abdominal wall muscles in women with and without primary dysmenorrhea: a cross-sectional study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7151153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32197472
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics10030166
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