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The Billings/ovulation method is a periodic abstinence method of regulating births based on the client's interpretation of changing patterns in secretions of cervical mucus monitored by external self-...

First year results of a randomized study of 1509 users of the Copper T380Ag with a silver core or of an IUD releasing 20 mcg day of levonorgestrel are reported. The cumulative gross pregnancy rate for...

More than 100 years after the first description of endometriosis, the pathophysiology of the disorder still remains an enigma. In addition to infertility, an increased frequency of clinically apparent...

Six female olive baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis) were treated with a single dose of 150 mg of Depo-Provera i.m. at day 30 of pregnancy, approximately three times the human dose equivalent on a bod...

Factors associated with discontinuation from an island-wide natural family planning program in Mauritius were examined in 2 stratified random samples of 300 (1976) and 350 (1980) acceptors. The data w...

Twenty-five infertile women conceived while taking tamoxifen (TMX). Daily serum profiles of 5 of the 25 TMX-induced conception cycles were elucidated and compared with those found in 5 normal cycles. ...

Although major advances have been made in both obstetric care of the high-risk patient and in neonatal care, prematurity and its consequences remain the major contributor to perinatal mortality. The i...

Tamoxifen (Norvadex), synthesized by the Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., is a triphenylethylene derivative having a clomiphene-like structure and displays anti-estrogenic activities. In this study ...

Pulsatile secretion of LH in women has been shown to vary during the menstrual cycle. LH pulse frequency during the luteal phase is markedly reduced compared to that in the follicular phase. The objec...

Interesting data on infertile human membranous mucus compared with infertile filamentous mucus have emerged from previous studies using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The aim of this study was to...

The antiestrogenic effect of clomiphene citrate (CC) on cervical mucus was evaluated in women receiving 150 mg CC daily for 5 days. Daily cervical mucus scores and serum estradiol (E2) concentrations ...

Cervical mucus forms channels when dried under a coverslip. The aim of the present work was: 1) to prove mucus canalization both in spontaneous ovulatory cycles and during ovulation induction with gon...

Tamoxifen at a dose of 10 mg/day for 5 days was given to five infertile women in the luteal phase. Daily serum samples were obtained during the luteal phase for radioimmunoassay of progesterone (P), e...

The effect of cervical suture on pregnancy outcome was studied in 194 women with a high risk (approximately 30%) of having a late abortion or a preterm delivery. The women were randomly allocated eith...

Blood was found in the peritoneal fluid in 90% of women with patent tubes at laparoscopy during perimenstrual time. If the fallopian tubes were occluded, then only 15% of patients had evidence of bloo...

Thirty-seven consecutive patients with singleton pregnancies in "uncomplicated" preterm labor with intact membranes suitable for tocolysis were evaluated for evidence of silent chorioamnionitis by mea...

A total of 506 women at moderate risk of preterm delivery were randomly allocated to either cervical cerclage or a control group. Significantly more women in the group allocated to cerclage were admit...

Normal probability plots were used to assess the homogeneity of a population of 327 luteal phases from apparently ovulatory menstrual cycles. The length of the luteal phase was defined as the interval...

Twenty-eight patients with type I diabetes mellitus, legally blind as a result of proliferative retinopathy, were recruited into a program designed to teach and evaluate tactile methods for self-monit...

The efficacy, the ability of Indian women to use the Billings' Ovulation Method, and its effectiveness in helping them to control their fertility was studied in a sample of urban poor living in the De...

There seems to be an association of first-trimester spontaneous abortion and untreated endometriosis. In this report, 52% of an untreated group of patients with endometriosis aborted. However, 12% of ...

Improved understanding of follicular dynamics has led to a reevaluation of suppression of adrenal androgens in ovulation induction. To test whether adrenal suppression during clomiphene citrate (CC) t...

The pattern of episodic gonadotropin release was studied in 15 normal female volunteers during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle with 24 h of blood sampling for follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH...

Diagnosis, choice of therapy, and pregnancy outcome were analyzed in 79 women evaluated for luteal phase inadequacy. Criteria for the diagnosis were established, and groups at risk for luteal inadequa...

Solutions of sodium carboxymethylcellulose (SCMC) were studied in rats to determine their longevity within the peritoneal cavity and their potential for prevention of postoperative intraperitoneal adh...

Among 150 patients admitted for ovum aspiration, in vitro fertilization, and embryo transfer in Perth, Western Australia, 14 were found to have had at least one ovulated follicle at the time of laparo...

Requests by single women for artificial insemination by donor (AID) raise important ethical issues concerning the obligations of physicians and the well-being of the children who would be conceived. S...

Luteal phase lengths and hormonal profiles (progesterone, oestradiol-17 beta, beta HCG and prolactin) have been documented in 77 cases derived from a series of patients undergoing IVF. Nineteen pregna...

With the Billings Ovulation Method of natural family planning, women chart the symptoms of changes of their cervical mucus to determine when they are ovulating. The Ovulation Method is simple to learn...

We interviewed 128 women regularly during pregnancy and the first postnatal year. Psychiatric interviews identified eight 'cases' of psychiatric disorder (6 per cent) in early pregnancy and twenty 'ca...

In vivo and in vitro endometrial stromal synthesis of prolactin occurs after progesterone-induced decidualization. Synthesis of prolactin by myometrium in vitro suggests that cells whose embryologic o...

By studying the changes of microscopic and ultramicroscopic structure of cervical mucus and the corresponding changes of ovarian hormone levels throughout the cycle, a close correspondence was found b...

The calendar rhythm method of natural family planning (NFP) is one of the most popular contraceptive methods in the Philippines. As a result, the Philippines has one of the highest NFP prevalence rate...

Two sets of focus group discussions on the advantages and disadvantages of the rhythm method were carried out in the Philippines in 1980 and 1981. The first discussions were held among 30 women and ni...

Postoperative pelvic adhesions represent a major challenge to the surgeon operating to correct or prevent infertility. Many approaches have been tried, but intraperitoneal treatment seems to be the mo...

We evaluated the effect of treatment of gonorrhea on simultaneous Chlamydia trachomatis infection by randomly assigning 293 heterosexual men and 246 heterosexual women with gonorrhea to receive one of...

The use of intraperitoneal 32% high-molecular weight dextran 70 (Hyskon, Pharmacia Inc.) has been reported to reduce the incidence of surgical adhesions in several species. The present study was under...

The ovulation method makes women aware of certain changes in their cervical mucus. These modifications help to distinguish the beginning and end of the cycle's fertile period and indicate the time of ...

Microsomal membranes sedimented at 40 000 g were prepared from human myometrium samples. The progesterone binding properties of microsomal suspensions were determined by incubating microsomes and [3H]...

Subclinical intrauterine infection is an important cause of preterm labor, specifically where tocolysis has failed. Fifty patients in preterm labor with singleton pregnancies were studied prospectivel...

Serum testosterone, progesterone, luteinizing hormone, prolactin, and sex hormone-binding globulin levels were measured in 55 normal controls, in 31 patients with hyperplastic alterations of breast ep...

Twenty-two infertile women with repeated deficient results in the postcoital test received clomiphene citrate or tamoxifen. The patterns of luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, prolactin...

In some series the most appropriate therapy for luteal phase defects is supplemental progesterone in the luteal phase. Clomiphene's efficacy is more controversial since in one series only 8% achieved ...

A single dose of micronized oral progesterone was administered to 15 pregnant women immediately prior to elective cesarean section. Levels of progesterone, 17 beta-estradiol, and estrone were measured...

Thirty-one women with severe premenstrual syndrome had low sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) binding capacities 30.2 +/- 9.4 nmol DHT bound/l. The SHBG binding capacities rose when they were treated...

In 121 women attending the infertility clinic between 1978 and 1982, 127 cycles with luteal phases of 10 days or more were investigated by a complete basal body temperature (BBT) chart, three plasma p...

The important role of cervical mucus from a reproduction standpoint is the transport and selection of spermatozoa. The study of the fertilizing ability of human spermatozoa by the use of zona-free ham...

The principal function of muscular tissue is contraction. This is also true for the uterus this function begins with sexual maturation. During pregnancy special conditions are brought about by the inc...