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Blood samples were obtained during early follicular, periovulatory, and luteal phases in four women with out-of-phase endometrial biopsy specimens and four normal controls. In the study cycle, follicu...

Physicians compared clinical history, examination, and laboratory data on 10 pregnant women at various gestational ages with intact membranes till labor began (controls) with data on 25 pregnant women...

Clomiphene citrate therapy has been found to improve the infertility rate in women suffering from polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD). However, there still exists a group of women with PCOD who fail to ...

Some randomized studies have suggested a significant beneficial effect of 17-hydroxyprogesterone caproate in the prevention of preterm labor [1, 2], The therapy in both studies was initiated at approx...

Cyclofenil is a triphenylethylene derivative, similar in structure to clomiphene citrate, which is used to induce ovulation in anovulatory women. The effects of cyclofenil on a group of 10 normal cycl...

Home uterine activity monitoring has been proposed as an effective technique for reducing the incidence of preterm birth by early recognition of incipient labor. Five randomized controlled trials eval...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the deleterious effect of clomiphene citrate (CC) on the development of the endometrium and its improvement by the addition of ethinyl estradiol (E2). PARTICIPATING PATIENTS: In...

Natural family planning includes the calendar (rhythm), basal body temperature, ovulation (mucus), and sympto-thermal methods. Reliability of such methods often is underestimated, but effectiveness of...

In order to clarify the relationship between endometrial histology and progesterone (P4), plasma P4 and estradiol levels in the luteal phase were measured in 126 cases of unexplained infertility. Endo...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of Ringer's lactate instillation, Interceed(TC7) (Johnson and Johnson Medical, Inc., New Brunswick NJ), and Gore-Tex Surgical Membrane (W. L. Gore and Associates, In...

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of the materials contained in the available adhesion prevention barriers on the peritoneum. STUDY DESIGN, SETTING, PATIENTS: A murine paradigm was used, placi...

A study was initiated to evaluate the prevalence of the luteinized unruptured follicle (LUF) syndrome in a group of 355 women with infertility. The diagnosis was established by carefully observing dai...

Excised tubal segments from 94 infertile women with tubal obstruction, with a mean infertility duration of 5.3 years, and 40 women with ectopic tubal pregnancy were studied histopathologically to eval...

Annual report (Jahrbuch) of the Deutsches IVF-Register (DIR) for treatment year 1991. DIR is the German national IVF/ICSI registry, founded 1982. Phase B historical-archive source.

Infertility, spontaneous abortions and trisomic anomalies increase with maternal age, as do ectopic pregnancy, low birth weight, macrosomia, abruptio placentae and labor dysfunction. However, those ph...

We report an interesting case of above-normal serum estradiol concentration of unknown origin. A 30-year-old white woman was seen for infertility problems. Hormonal evaluation revealed the following r...

The incidence and fertility effects of postoperative adhesion formation after laparoscopic ovarian electrocautery or laser photocoagulation of polycystic ovaries has not been adequately analyzed. Shor...

An improved delivery method to achieve sustained physiological P levels would be useful. Based on this single-dose pharmacokinetic study, micronized P prepared in a nonliquefying vaginal cream holds p...

Fifty-one consecutive twin pregnancies studied prospectively were compared with 153 consecutive control twin gestations that were concurrently delivered, but chosen retrospectively. Study patients wer...

OBJECTIVE: To determine possible etiologies of unsuccessful fluoroscopically guided tubal canalization, we studied the histology of tubal segments in cases of failed canalization for proximal tubal ob...

Data from a case-control study that was conducted between 1980 and 1982 were analyzed to investigate the possible association between polycystic ovaries and the risk of breast cancer. The multicenter,...

Home uterine activity monitoring has been described as an effective means of detecting uterine contractions, but controversy exists whether it is home uterine activity monitoring or increased nursing ...

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the association between subfertility and low birth weight infants. DESIGN: Women in this analysis participated in a cross-sectional investigation of maternal risk factors for ...

The incidence of polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) varies from 0.6 to 92%, depending on the parameters analysed, PCOD has been reported to appear in association with Cushing's Syndrome, adrenal hyperp...

In order to test the hypothesis that endogenous opiates are at least partially responsible for hyperinsulinaemia in patients with polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD), the effect of naloxone (an opiate r...

OBJECTIVE: To test a sonoscopic technique developed for transvaginal catheterization and recanalization of the fallopian tube. DESIGN: In a feasibility study, catheterization was performed with the u...

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the extent and sources of imprecision in histologic dating of the endometrial biopsy. DESIGN: Duplicate endometrial biopsies from 25 women were dated by five evaluators on ...

Endovaginal sonography of the endometrium demonstrates characteristic findings throughout the menstrual cycle. To correlate these findings with histologic criteria for normal endometrial development, ...

The results of a study concerning the treatment of acute menace of preterm labor are given: beta-mimetics were administered intravenously in all cases (44) and micronized progesterone or placebo was a...

The bioavailability and the clinical usefulness of the P administered by nasal spray were investigated. Ten healthy menopausal women received an IN spray administration (4 doses of an oleic P solution...

OBJECTIVE: The role of natural killer (NK) cells in the decreased cellular immunity of women with endometriosis was investigated. DESIGN, SETTING, PATIENTS: Thirty-four women were investigated prosp...

A study was conducted to determine if the increased recognition of various forms of endometriosis might have increased the ability to correlate focal tenderness with lesions. The prospective study of ...

At an interdisciplinary workshop on home monitoring of uterine activity, participants reviewed the basis of this technology and its use in the identification of women at high risk of preterm delivery ...

5 major criteria are used to evaluate family planning methods: efficacy, both theoretical and practical; acceptability as measured by continuation of use; safety; reversibility; and cost, including th...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the clinical efficacy of low dose spironolactone in hirsute women. DESIGN: Retrospective. SETTING: Outpatient endocrinology clinic. PATIENTS: One hundred nine consecutive wome...

OBJECTIVE: Luteal phase abnormalities are known to complicate ovulation induction with gonadotropins. This study was performed to test the effect of a modified human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) regim...

The rate of adhesion formation after ovarian electrocauterization has been described in two selective and unselective groups of patients with PCOS. The rate of this complication in the selective group...

OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of selective salpingography for diagnosis and treatment of tubal injection failure during hysterosalpingography (HSG). DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: Obstetrics and Gyneco...

The relative contributions of home tokodynamometry and daily nursing telephone contact to the success of preterm birth prevention programs remains a subject of debate. Because investigators have obtai...

In recent years, several new devices have been developed to help women achieve or avoid pregnancy. These devices include computerized basal body temperature thermometers, electronic fertility monitors...

Rabbit uterine cervical fibroblasts produced a large amount of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) such as collagenase (MMP-1) and stromelysin (MMP-3) and a small relatively amount of tissue inhibitor of...

In this study we have evaluated the score, sperm migration and ultrastructural characteristics of cervical mucus present in amenorrhoeic women under exclusive breastfeeding at 30, 60, 90, 120, 150 and...

In a 3-year prospective study of 643 consecutive laparoscopies for infertility, pelvic pain, or infertility and pain, the pelvic area, the depth of infiltration, and the volume of endometriotic lesion...

One of the main components of conjugated equine estrogens is equilin sulfate and this estrogen in postmenopausal women is metabolized to 17 beta-dihydroequilin, 17 beta-dihydroequilenin and equilenin....

Women with luteal phase deficiency have been shown to have an increased frequency of luteinizing hormone pulses in the early follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. Because progesterone is known to m...

A randomized prospective trial was performed to compare the efficacy and safety of ritodrine and indomethacin in the long-term treatment of preterm labor. Forty patients with intact membranes in prete...

A pregnant woman may become anxious if she has not delivered by the date given to her by her physician. Much anxiety would be alleviated if a range of dates (38-42 weeks) was substituted for a specifi...