We report a case of a 46-year-old woman with hypertension and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease who presented with chest pain and was found to have spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) on diagnostic catheterization. We review the pathogenesis, management and prognosis of SCAD. We conclude that in patients with polycystic kidney disease who present with angina pectoris and po...

Polycystic kidney disease is an inherited multisystem disorder. It causes progressive loss of kidney function, flank pain, urinary tract infection, arterial hypertension and vascular abnormalities. Until the present time the treatment of polycystic kidney disease has been symptomatic. New approaches based on cell culture of cyst wall epithelia and on the discovery of polycystins 1 and 2 have le...

Polycystic liver disease is an autosomal dominant disorder commonly associated with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. It is a rare disease that usually occurs asymptomatically in 85% of cases and diagnosis is incidentally. We present the case of 57 years old woman with progressive pruritus and jaundice secondary to stenosis of the common hepatic duct and common bile by liver cyst, r...

In this second overview of the current management of infertility we discuss anovulatory infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome. This syndrome (formerly known as Stein-Leventhal syndrome) is the most common hormonal disturbance in women—around one fifth of women in the United Kingdom are affected. It is also themost common reason for women not to ovulate, and the combination of being overweig...

More recently, in December 2012, the National Institutes of Health Office for Disease Prevention convened the first Evidencebased Methodology Workshop on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome [11]. These discussions led participants to suggest modifications to the name polycystic ovary syndrome that would better define and recognize the reproductive features and the longterm metabolic risks associated with...

Sclerosing polycystic adenosis of the major salivary glands is rare and can simulate a slow growing tumour. It is pseudoencapsulated and includes tubuloacinar adenosis with dilated ducts, apocrine metaplasia, epithelial hyperplasia, and cystic changes associated with fibrosis. The histological appearance of the lesion is similar to that of fibrocystic disease of the breast. The multifocal natur...

l p g ( N a Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is considered the most common endocrine disorder among women of reproductive age, but prevalence estimates have varied from a low of 4.6% found by Knochenhauer et al in 1998 to a high of .8% noted by Diamanti-Kandarakis et l in 1999. Other estimates have fallen etween these ranges. The exact cause of PCOS still is unknown, but it is characterized b...

purpose to determine the prevalence of polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) in women who exercise regularly. methods all women under age 45 from an industrial company who had past history of exercising more than 6 months enrolled in this cross-sectional study. prevalence of pcos and comparison of bmi between pcos and non-pcos subgroups was done. the diagnosis of pcos was based on the revised 2003 r...

to assess the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors (particularly androgens) on circulating levels of lipid fractions, serum androgen and lipid fractions were measured in 34 pairs of female-female twins aged from 15- 45 years, some of whom were discordant for polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) diagnosed by ultrasound. nineteen pairs were monozygotic twins (mz) and 15 pairs we...