OBJECTIVE To examine the associations between mode of delivery and public versus privately funded obstetric care within the same hospital setting. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Urban maternity hospital in Ireland. POPULATION A total of 30 053 women with singleton pregnancies who delivered between 2008 and 2011. METHODS The study population was divided into those who booked ...

Background: Cervix is vulnerable to many pathological changes ranging from inflammation malignancy. Cervical polyp one of the commonest cervical lesion seen in about 2-5% women. They are more frequent parous women and mostly asymptomatic. Symptomatic polyps premenopausal with most common clinical presentation AUB(abnormal uterine bleed). Usually they benign but there chances malignant transform...

OBJECTIVE To investigate incidence and prevalence of urinary incontinence during pregnancy and associated risk factors. METHODS The data collection was conducted as part of the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. We present questionnaire data about urinary incontinence obtained from 43,279 women (response rate 45%) by week 30. We report data on...

Aims: To know the incidence, indication and maternal and perinatal outcome of primary caesarean section in multigravida. To know the incidence and indications of primary caesarean section in multigravida. Materials and Methods: It is a prospective study of over 196 cases of caesarean section done for the first time in multigravida for a period of 2 years . For all the cases, blood was sent for ...

IGM: idiopathic granulomatous mastitis INTRODUCTION Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is a rare, chronic inflammatory disease of the breast. IGM most commonly affects young, healthy parous women and usually presents as an ill-defined breast lump simulating malignancy. On histopathology, noncaseating granulomas confined to the breast lobules are typically seen. We present a unique case of ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if cervical ripening with the prostaglandin E2 analogue dinoprostone effectively shortens the induction-to-delivery interval in midpregnancy terminations with sulprostone. STUDY DESIGN We retrospectively studied 100 women admitted for pregnancy termination at midgestation because of fetal anomalies between September 1989 and January 1993. Three regimens were used: 27 wo...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to review the experience with the frameless, anchored, GyneFix copper-releasing intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUCDs/IUDs) (Contrel Europe, Belgium), and to demonstrate their high acceptability and low rate of discontinuation of use, which could contribute to current efforts that aim to reduce radically the high number of unintended pregnancies and in...

Recent animal studies suggest that progestagen-induced apoptosis of transformed ovarian surface epithelial cells may underlie the observed protective effect of pregnancy on the risk of ovarian cancer. Assuming that increasing numbers of cells are transformed with advancing age, we postulated that the benefits of pregnancy would be greater for older than younger women and tested this hypothesis ...

Background: Long-term safety of assisted reproductive techniques (ART) is of interest as their use is increasing. Cancer risk is known to be affected by parity. This study examined the risk of cancer after fertility treatment, stratified by women's parity.Methods: Data were obtained from all women (n = 1,353,724) born in Norway between 1960 and 1996. Drug exposure data (2004-2014) were obtained...