With the advancement of ultrasonic technology in recent years, sonography has become a common medical diagnostic tool, as it has elevated output sonic intensity and elongated exposure time. This study investigates the effect of ultrasound on human chorionic villus cell apoptosis during early pregnancy. Transvaginal ultrasound was performed for a total of 60 women who had undergone induced abort...

Caesarean section (CS) scar defects are seen in up to 19% of women post lower segment caesarean section. Ultrasound and in particular transvaginal ultrasound, with or without saline, is the imaging modality of choice to delineate such defects. There are limited data available however which enable clinicians to quantify the risk of potential sequelae in women with a demonstrable CS scar defect.

After introduction of high-frequency vaginal transducer, transvaginal two-dimensional ultrasound has established a field of sonoembryology and most of the major fetal abnormalities have been detectable in the first trimester. Three-dimensional ultrasound adds an objective and comprehensive information to two-dimensional sonographic findings.

pelvic inflammatory disease (pid) is a rare complication of transvaginal oocyte retrieval. it may result in failure of assisted reproductive techniques (art). during a 7 years period, 5958 transvaginal ultrasound-guided oocyte retrievals resulted in 10 cases of acute pid. eight out of 10 patients were diagnosed infertile because of endometriosis. two patients had mild ovarian, 3 had stage iii, ...

BACKGROUND Transvaginal ultrasound is used conventionally as initial investigation of patients with abnormal uterine bleeding but saline contrast sonohysterography is a better technique to reliably distinguish focal from diffuse endometrial lesions. This study was performed to compare the ability of transvaginal ultrasonography and saline infusion sonohysterography as initial modality for the d...

OBJECTIVE To assess the incidence, clinical presentation, risk factors and outcome of symptomatic pelvic hematomas following transvaginal pelvic reconstructive surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the medical records of all women undergoing transvaginal reconstructive pelvic surgery in our institution between January 2006 and July 2009. RESULTS 462 patients underwent pelvic reconstruc...

OBJECTIVE To assess the utility of a less invasive approach to the care of women with a pelvic abscess, we retrospectively reviewed the outcome of women with pelvic abscesses managed by transvaginal ultrasound-guided aspiration. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 27 pelvic abscesses in 22 consecutive women undergoing transvaginal drainage, including 13 tuboovarian abscesses (TOAs) and 14 pos...

We studied the role of transvaginal ultrasonography and clinical factors in the diagnosis of pelvic adhesions in a population of 139 consecutive pre-menopausal non-pregnant women submitted to diagnostic and/or operative laparoscopy between February 1995 and November 1996. All patients underwent transvaginal ultrasonography and were interviewed within 2 days of their laparoscopy. The ultrasonogr...