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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a heterogeneous disorder of reproductive age women characterized in its broadest definition by the presence of oligoamenorrhea and hyperandrogenism and the absence ...

OBJECTIVES: To measure the relationship between laparoscopically detected pelvic pathology and pelvic pain or infertility. METHODS: Women undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy either for the investigatio...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the risk of preterm birth for mothers who themselves were born before term. METHODS: Data were taken from a linked data base of birth certificates composed of two cohorts: 1) a ...

We estimated the levels of interleukin 6 (IL-6) and neopterin, in serum of twelve nonpregnant (group A) and 28 pregnant women between 28-36 weeks of pregnancy. Group B consisted of eight patients with...

Both hyperand hypothyroidism may result in menstrual disturbances. In hyperthyroidism, amenorrhea was described as early as 1840 by von Basedow. The most common manifestation is simple oligomenorrhea ...

Despite the recognized benefits for clients and programs of providing natural family planning (NFP) services, few family planning programs offer NFP and few provide fertility awareness education. Furt...

To protect and advocate for their own reproductive health, people of all ages can greatly benefit from enhanced body/self awareness and strong interpersonal communication skills. Body/self awareness a...

Objective: To equip the reader with the tools necessary to evaluate studies of natural family planning (NFP) effectiveness found in the literature and to make recommendations for future NFP effectiven...

Social marketing applies commercial sector ideas to programs to change behavior. It involves a mindset that is customer-focused; a process that starts with customers and continually returns to them fo...

Progesterone is a known immunosupressant in humans and may be important in treatment regimens for women with immunological and endocrinological reproductive failure. The molecular mechanism of progest...

This paper presents demographic data about use of NFP in Europe and the factors which have been identified as influencing that very low use level. Experience with a new ovulation detection device in c...

Natural methods of fertility regulation are acceptable in most cultures. Many couples worldwide do not wish to use contraceptives or do not have access to them but wish to limit their family size or l...

Background: Different exogenous factors are believed to play a role in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis. Smoking habits and other risk factors have received much attention. It has recently been ...

The Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health has evolved a multi-dimensional approach to reproductive health education which has grown from their work in natural family planning and fer...

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether singleton IVF pregnancies carry adverse maternal or fetal outcome when compared with naturally conceived gestations. DESIGN: An analysis of the obstetric outcome of si...

A pilot study was conducted in Ireland to test the effectiveness of the calendar method of contraception. A conservative rule was used, requiring on average 16 days of abstinence per cycle. Among the ...

This study has determined long-term continuation rates of clients who attended clinics of the New Zealand Association of Natural Family Planning and became autonomous users. It has also identified fac...

The hospital-centered trend that has dominated medical culture and the management of health care during this entire century has, in the last few years, undergone a reversal in Italy. Conditions in oth...

The objective was to verify the hypothesis of a 'first uterine pass effect' or direct preferential vagina-to-uterus transport, suggested by the evidence of higher than expected uterine tissue concentr...

OBJECTIVE: To report the occurrence of an unusual case of successful pregnancy achieved by oocyte donation in a woman > 60 years of age. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University-based assisted repro...

Objective: To examine the relationship between past use of oral contraceptives (OCs) and development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods: Prospective cohort study of 121,645 women who were...

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to assess (1) whether treatment with oral contraceptives, in comparison with medroxyprogesterone and placebo, improved bone mineral in women with hypothal...

Current concepts suggest that normal estrogen levels are necessary for exercise to have an osteogenic effect on bone. In a population of running and sedentary women Prior et al. (NEJM, 1990) have show...

OBJECTIVE(S): To study the fertility results after laparoscopic distal tuboplasty and compare them with the data in the literature. STUDY DESIGN: 194 laparoscopic distal tuboplasties were carried out...

The ageing ovary appears to be characterized by depletion of primordial follicles. The relationship between infertility and the number of follicles in the ovarian cortex is not known. Moreover, there ...

OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate a questionnaire used antepartum to screen for postpartum depression. STUDY DESIGN: Demographic and clinical data, based on previously identified variables, were obt...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate effectiveness and safety of a regimen of extended clomiphene citrate (CC) and prednisone for patients who fail treatment with CC alone. DESIGN: Retrospective observational anal...

Interleukin-8 (IL-8), a 72 amino acid peptide secreted by cells of the immune system and of the amnion, chorion and decidua, was measured in women in late pregnancy. IL-8 was detected in the urine of ...

OBJECTIVE: To test whether subfertile women may be at higher risk of preterm delivery. METHODS: We used data from two population-based cohort studies on risk factors and pregnancy outcome for approxi...

We have demonstrated previously that exogenous progesterone, but not estrogen, up-regulated lymphocyte beta2-adrenoceptors (beta2-AR) when given during the follicular phase in healthy women. Female as...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the predictive value of polycystic ovaries for endocrine signs of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). DESIGN: Controlled descriptive study. SETTING: Academic tertiary care fe...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of estradiol (E2) replacement therapy on cardiac structure and function in healthy postmenopausal women. METHODS: We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-cont...

We encountered a case of ovarian cancer in a 33-year-old, 8-week pregnant woman. Histological examination revealed both a transitive form of ovarian endometriosis with marked decidual changes due to p...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the luteal phase in women with rigorously defined unexplained infertility. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: National Center for Infertility Research at Michigan. PATIENT(S...

Cardiovascular disease, the major cause of death in post-menopausal women, can be reduced by replacement of ovarian steroid hormones. To compare medroxyprogesterone with progesterone as the progestin ...

The incidence of ovarian atypical endometriosis and its association with malignant epithelial tumours in a consecutive series of cases during the period 1987 to 1995 were studied. Atypical glandular c...

OBJECTIVE: To determine how board-certified reproductive endocrinologists vary in their approach to the clinical tests performed on the infertile couple. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study to assess dif...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate intraovarian resistance index (RI) in 47 healthy fertile volunteers with ovulatory cycles, 28 patients with luteal phase defect (LPD) and four patients with luteinized unrupture...

OBJECTIVE: To determine pregnancy rates (PR) after fimbrioplasty and salpingostomy in nonocclusive distal tubal disease. To evaluate the relative impact of various factors using contemporary statistic...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the risk of radiation exposure to infertility patients during a gynecoradiologic procedure. DESIGN: Retrospective clinical study. SETTING: Medical school-affiliated infertilit...

OBJECTIVE: To compare demographic, epidemiologic, and medical data and to evaluate diagnostic trends in women with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain symptoms or endometriosis and infertility. DES...

OBJECTIVE: To study the effects of clomiphene citrate (CC) on the endometrium by ultrasound and to reveal the echogenic difference between the control cycle and the CC cycle. DESIGN: Retrospective st...

Postpartum mood disorders are common. The clustering of mood-disorder episodes after birth compels a search for factors particularly potent during childbearing. In this article, the complex relationsh...

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether treatment with low dose aspirin and heparin leads to a higher rate of live births than that achieved with low dose aspirin alone in women with a history of recurrent mi...

Background: Four studies published since December, 1995, reported that the incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) was higher in women who used oral contraceptives (OCs) containing the third-generat...

Objective: The goal of this study is to assess the efficiency of laparoscopic surgical treatment of pain for patients presenting deep endometriosis located on the uterosacral ligaments. Study Design:...

Epidemiologic studies demonstrate a twofold higher rate of depression in women than in men. The childbearing years are a time of increased risk for onset of depression in women. Pregnancy, miscarriage...