Blog Debuts for Valentine's Day with 'Can Endometriosis Travel to the Heart?' -- Yes, Says Dr. Wallace, Author, 'Living With Lung and Colon Endometriosis: Catamenial Pneumothorax'.

Question Posed on Yahoo! Answers Social Networking Site Receives Global Interest; Spurs More 'Endometriosis Migration' Concerns

LOS ANGELES -- Just in time for Valentine's Day, when everyone's focus is on the "heart," the news of the day is that "Endometriosis can travel and attach to the heart," says Glynis Wallace, DMD, on her new blog launched today. Dr. Wallace, a former USAF Major and a graduate of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, is the author of "Living With Lung and Colon Endometriosis: Catamenial Pneumothorax." The internationally acclaimed book provides hope and inspiration, based on her personal experience with endometriosis, to the countless women around the world who suffer from this often debilitating under-diagnosed and misunderstood disease.

The question posed on "Yahoo! Answers" today ignited an impassioned string of responses from women who were previously unaware of endometriosis migration. View blog at http://blog.catamenialpneumothorax.org. Dr. Wallace last month launched the website www.catamenialpneumothorax.org to spearhead quicker, easier, and more widespread global diagnosis and subsequent treatment regimes.

Says Dr. Wallace, "It is shocking that women know so very little about endometriosis and those you ask about the disease believe that endometriosis is limited to the pelvic area. The truth is that endometriosis can travel throughout your body attaching to most organs in its path - a little known fact that I am hopeful my new blog will help rectify."

She explains that the blog will help visitors better understand the complex aspects of endometriosis migration organ documentation. It is the "next generation blog" in that it provides animation and scientific documentation to help the visitor quickly understand the various body organs affected by endometriosis, and bypasses language barriers to appeal to a global community.

If you experience pain before and during your monthly cycle, consult your physician for diagnosis and treatment. Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is real. When hormones fluctuate, the endometrial cells respond.

Endometriosis is the condition in which the tissue that normally lines the uterus (endometrium) travels and grows (attaches) on other areas of the body, causing pain and irregular bleeding. It affects women in their reproductive years. Endometriosis is estimated to affect more than 6 million women in the United States. While the mean age at diagnosis is around 25-30 years, endometriosis has been reported in girls as young as 11 years of age.

"Living With Lung and Colon Endometriosis: Catamenial Pneumothorax" outlines Dr. Wallace's 13-year experience with pulmonary endometriosis through narrative summaries from the physicians who attempted to control this disease. As an active-duty military officer, she underwent extensive and extremely thorough diagnostic tests to determine fitness for duty. This led to excellent medical treatment, which allowed her to continue serving on active duty.

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About CatamenialPneumothorax.org

The tremendous worldwide interest in Dr. Wallace's book "Living With Lung and Colon Endometriosis: Catamenial Pneumothorax" demonstrated the need for a call to action. CatamenialPneumothorax.org serves to alert the global healthcare community to the prevalence, hardship, and treatment options that can make catamenial pneumothorax/lung and colon endometriosis well known and understood among a cross section of medical specialties. The goal of the website and Dr. Wallace's efforts is to spearhead quicker, easier, and more widespread global diagnosis and subsequent treatment regimes. (http://catamenialpneumothorax.org)