There were two main gynaecological traditions in the early Middle Ages: the Soranic and Hippocratic traditions. This article focuses on the latter tradition, which was based on the translations into Latin of the Greek treatises Diseases of Women I and II. These translations, referred to here as Latin Diseases of Women and On the Diverse Afflictions of Women, contain a wealth of recipes, which a...

endometriosis is a painful reproductive disease afflicting about up to 20% of women. it is one of the most frequent benign gynaecological diseases, however, little is known about the pathological of endometriosis. over the past decade, high-throughput proteomics technologies have evolved considerably and have become increasingly more commonly applied to the investigation of female reproductive ...

OBJECTIVE To compare outcomes of vaginal and abdominal hysterectomy procedures in women with benign gynaecological diseases. METHODS This was a prospective study of outcomes of consecutive patients who underwent total vaginal hysterectomy (VH) or abdominal hysterectomy (AH) for benign gynaecological diseases. Patient characteristics before, during, and after the operations were reviewed. Pati...

The traditionally recognized role of vitamin D consists in the regulation of bone metabolism and calcium-phosphorus homeostasis but recently a lot of in vitro and in vivo studies recognized several "noncalcemic" effects of vitamin D metabolites. Accumulating evidence suggests that the metabolic pathways of this vitamin may play a key role in the developing of gynaecological/obstetric diseases. ...

In 1963 George Mathé announced to the world that he had cured a patient of leukaemia by means of a bone-marrow transplant. Since than much progress has been made and nowadays Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) is considered the most effective treatment of numerous severe haematological diseases. Gynaecological complications in HSCT women represent a serious concern for these patient...

In the past menstrual pain in women was often thought to be psychosomatic. We now understand that menstrual pain is real. It has been recognised that gynaecological diseases/disorders such as endometriosis, dysmenorrhoea, menorrhagia, and pelvic inflammatory diseases are not minor problems for women affected. They often affect women’s quality of life and even reduce their productivity in genera...

Hysterectomy is the most common major nonObstetrics operation undergone by women worldwide (Lin et al., 2012; Stang et al., 2012). It is a destructive surgery. Hysterectomy can be used to eradicate both malignant and non-malignant gynaecological diseases. Previousreports showed that hysterectomy rate for uterine leiomyoma was greater than all other indications combined, namely endometriosis, ut...