OBJECTIVE To describe the new surgical technique and report the safety and feasibility of vaginally-assisted laparoscopic sacrohysteropexy (VALSH). MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-three women with stage 3 or more uterine prolapse underwent VALSH operation. Patients were followed up for 12 months for mesh-related complications and improvements of symptoms. The operation had three sections; 1st la...

In this paper, we present a method to optimise rough set partition sizes, to which rule extraction is performed on HIV data. The genetic algorithm optimisation technique is used to determine the partition sizes of a rough set in order to maximise the rough sets prediction accuracy. The proposed method is tested on a set of demographic properties of individuals obtained from the South African an...

It is unknown if high prolactin levels during pregnancy contribute to the development of gestational diabetes. We hypothesized that higher prolactin levels are associated with reduced glucose tolerance, as determined by higher 2-h glucose level from an oral glucose tolerance test in pregnancy. The 75-g oral glucose tolerance test was carried out at 28 weeks of gestation in 69 participants. A mu...

Anemia is the most common hematologic abnormality in pregnancy. Maternal anemia associated with adverse fetal, neonatal, and childhood outcomes. This study aims to determine prevalence of anemia, iron deficiency (IDA), severity condition, effect some socio-demographic factors on pregnant women Garmian province. The was conducted among 157 province between 17 49 years old. Participants completed...

Choriocarcinoma is a curable malignancy that occurred approximately 50% after term pregnancies, and prognosis in this form of gestational trophoblastic Disease (GTD) is Poor. The earliest onset choriocarcinoma after term pregnancy in one study was reported 3 weeks after delivery, but in current study, choriocarcinoma was diagnosed 2 weeks after delivery. 28 years-old women gravidity 2, parity 2...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the postoperative pain and satisfaction of patients who underwent total laparoscopic or abdominal hysterectomy for benign gynecologic conditions. Materials and Methods: This study was a prospective, randomized trial. A visual analogue scale and patient satisfaction score scale were used to evaluate the patients’ postoperative satisfaction rates. S...

Conjoined twins are rare variants of monozygotic twins, which result from an incomplete late division of the embryonic disk. Here we report the rarest case of conjoined twins - the male cephalothoracopagus janiceps disymmetros - born in prenatal week 30, from the archive of the Department of Teratology of the Institute of Experimental Medicine AS CR in Prague. The crown-rump length of each twin...

Latent toxoplasmosis is the most widespread parasite infection in developed and developing countries. The prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection varies mostly between 20 to 80% in different territories. This form of toxoplasmosis is generally considered to be asymptomatic. Recently published results, however, suggest that the personality profiles of infected subjects differ from those of uni...

Background The purpose of the present study was to evaluate relationship between chronic endometritis and epithelial-mesenchymal transition in endometrium infertile patients implantation phase. Methods Endometrial biopsy specimens from 66 infertility were analyzed. presence investigated by immunostaining for CD138. Immunohistochemical staining E-cadherin, N-cadherin, Slug, Snail performed, expr...

BACKGROUND Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a deadly disease with a 5-year survival of less than 5%. Worldwide PC incidence rates are lower among women than men. While this suggests a protective role for steroid hormones in PC risk, results from epidemiological studies are not consistent. METHODS 153 new incident PC cases and 202 controls were recruited from a prospective case-control study, running i...