The present report describes a case of an acquired uterine arteriovenous fistula, which, following surgery and postoperative pathological analysis, was confirmed as a previous cornual pregnancy with placenta accreta. The patient was a 37-year-old woman (gravida 3; para 2) who had previously delivered two children via cesarean section (in 2004 and 2010, respectively) and also had a spontaneous a...

PURPOSE To investigate the effect of switching from adjuvant tamoxifen to anastrozole (Arimidex) treatment in postmenopausal women with endocrine-responsive breast cancer and histologically proven tamoxifen-induced benign endometrial pathology. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Two hundred twenty-six postmenopausal women who had received adjuvant tamoxifen 20 mg/d (> or =12 months, < or =48 months) and dev...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Placental abruption, an ischemic placental disorder, complicates about 1 in 100 pregnancies, and is an important cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Metabolomics holds promise for improving the phenotyping, prediction and understanding of pathophysiologic mechanisms of complex clinical disorders including abruption. We sought to evaluate mat...

OBJECTIVE Physicians are taught that the pelvic exam is a key part of the evaluation of a woman presenting with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding. However, the exam is time consuming and invasive, and its use in the emergency department (ED) has not been prospectively evaluated. We evaluated how often the findings of the pelvic exam changed management in a cohort of consecutive female patients...

We present a case of cervical varix and low-lying placenta. A cesarean section was performed because of the risk of bleeding with vaginal delivery; hemostasis was achieved using z sutures at the bleeding points. After delivery, the cervical varix decreased dramatically in size. It is important to recognize the clinical features and available treatments for cervical varix.

background hysteroscopy is the gold standard method for diagnosis of intrauterine pathologies. current study is a review of hysteroscopic findings performed over a period of 5 years in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (aub). objective the aim of this study was a review of hysteroscopic findings performed over a period of 5 years in patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (aub). patients ...

The patient, aged 29 years, was admitted under our care on her twelfth postpartum day with moderately severe vaginal bleeding. Her first pregnancy and labour had been five years previously. Thereafter she had had three abortions. Consequently when her fifth pregnancy was confirmed a Shirodkar suture of tantalum wire was inserted. At 24 weeks she was admitted to hospital because of intermittent ...

UNLABELLED To show the efficacy of double-balloon cervical ripening catheter in the management of postpartum hemorrhage originating from the lower segment of the uterus or the upper parts of the vagina. METHODS Patients with intractable bleeding from the lower segment of the uterus and the upper parts of the vagina after Cesarean or vaginal deliveries were treated by double-balloon cervical r...

BACKGROUND Vaginal evisceration is a rare problem, usually related to a previous hysterectomy. We report a case of spontaneous rupture of the cul-de-sac in a premenopausal woman under treatment with glucocorticoids to treat Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), with uterine prolapse that occurred during evacuation. Main findings-Case Report: A 40-year-old woman with SLE, using glucocorticoids, wi...