Connie Rees

211 Table 8.4. UC features in adenomyosis patients and healthy controls during the MF phase of the menstrual cycle UC feature Direction of UC feature Adenomyosis patients (n=7) Healthy controls (n=18) P-value* CF (contractions/minute) AW in radial direction 1.54 (0.19) 1.62 (0.16) 0.2971 PW in radial direction 1.48 (0.21) 1.69 (0.16) 0.0131 Amplitude (SD) AW in radial direction 0.061 (0.050) 0.038 (0.011) 0.2042 PW in radial direction 0.050 (0.034) 0.037 (0.011) 0.4312 Velocity (mm/s) F2C propagation, AW 0.61 (0.16) 0.77 (0.22) 0.0692 C2F propagation, AW 0.75 (0.28) 0.85 (0.23) 0.1642 F2C propagation, PW 0.63 (0.12) 0.77 (0.29) 0.1832 C2F propagation, PW 0.66 (0.16) 0.84 (0.29) 0.0902 Coordination (MSE) 0.20 (0.08) 0.30 (0.09) 0.0191 All data are presented as mean (SD). *p-value was considered significant at <0.05. UC: uterine contractions; CF: contraction frequency; AW: anterior wall; PW: posterior wall; F2C; fundus-to-cervix; C2F: cervix-to-fundus 1T-test for independent samples 2Mann-Whitney test

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