A 26-year-old parous woman presented with profuse vaginal bleeding. Obstetric history was P1L1A4, first pregnancy was terminated for molar pregnancy, second pregnancy was a term delivery by LSCS after 3 years, third and fourth pregnancies were unconfirmed abortions, fifth pregnancy was incomplete abortion at 8 week’s gestation, underwent D&E elsewhere, following which she had persistent vaginal...

OBJECTIVE To compare resources used in the medical and laparoscopic treatment of unruptured ectopic pregnancy. METHODS We prospectively recorded all the medical resources required in the treatment of unruptured ectopic pregnancy. The study period ranged from January 1, 1995 to June 30, 1998. Single-dose intramuscular methotrexate injections were administered in 55 women (group I). This therap...

Introdução: A taxa de incidência gestações ectópicas é 1 a 2% na população em geral, sendo gestação ectópica cicatriz cesárea apresentação mais rara e com elevada mortalidade. real ainda desconhecida devido aos poucos casos descritos literatura, mas estima-se, base artigos recentes, que seja cada 1800 2216 ectópicas. Um fator risco tem contribuído significativamente para o aumento desses alta p...

Résumé Notre travail se proposait de rapporter les résultats d’une étude rétrospective, descriptive, portant sur 25 séminomes testiculaires de stade I et de préciser la place de la radiothérapie dans la prise en charge de cette entité. Entre janvier 2001 et décembre 2009, 25 patients atteints d'un séminome testiculaire de stade I ont été pris en charge au service de radiothérapie de l’institut ...

With advancing technology of assisted reproduction, physicians today have the ability to achieve conception in many couples who would have been totally incapable doing so only a few years ago. The anxiety and the uncertainty of pregnancy outcomes using ART procedures is widely accepted as one of the main psychological stresses the couples. The ability to predict outcome as soon as possible afte...

The goal of this retrospective chart review was to analyze if Chinese herbal therapy and acupuncture together with IVF will result in a higher pregnancy rate than acupuncture alone with IVF. Cases were reviewed from a reputable Chinese Medicine clinic that specializes in reproductive medicine. A convenience sampling was applied and patients were placed in separate groups according to the treatm...

We present a case of a 27-year-old para 2þ 0 who had a normal delivery 2 years previously. She had a previous cone biopsy for CIN3 and was receiving annual smears. She was referred by her GP to our A&E department with a 24 h history of generally feeling unwell, with diarrhoea, vomiting and lower abdominal pain. Her temperature was 388C; she was hypotensive (blood pressure 72/ 38 mmHg), with a r...

BACKGROUND The clinical management of pancreatic cancer is severely hampered by the absence of effective screening tools. METHODS Sixty-seven biomarkers were evaluated in prediagnostic sera obtained from cases of pancreatic cancer enrolled in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (PLCO). RESULTS The panel of CA 19-9, OPN, and OPG, identified in a prior retrospec...

BACKGROUND Serum progesterone has been advocated as a tool in the diagnosis of early pregnancy failure. We conducted this prospective study in order to investigate the potential value of early (14 days after oocyte recovery) serum progesterone measurement, in women undergoing IVF/ICSI and receiving rectal progesterone supplements, in relation to pregnancy outcome. METHODS 442 women consecutiv...