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The value of maternal C-reactive protein (CRP) levels as predictors of fetal and maternal infective morbidity and fetal mortality was assessed prospectively over a 6-month period in all cases of prema...

The development of a 10-item self-report scale (EPDS) to screen for Postnatal Depression in the community is described. After extensive pilot interviews a validation study was carried out on 84 mother...

Exercise is commonly listed as a remedy for the premenstrual syndrome (PMS), although no study has proven that it is an effective therapy. Numerous reports have suggested that exercise is associated w...

Endometriosis has been associated with corpus luteum inadequacy and abnormalities of luteal phase progesterone (P) secretion. In this study, abnormal luteolysis, as a second factor of luteal dysfuncti...

The bioavailability of micronized progesterone (P) was studied by measuring sequential serum P concentrations after a single bolus of 50-200 mg P given sublingually, orally (capsule and tablet), vagin...

Indirect evidence of the occurrence of ovulation, which is generally accepted, is an increase in plasma or serum progesterone. Pelvic ultrasonography can estimate the probable time of ovulation within...

To address the possibility that an abnormality in pancreatic beta-endorphin activity might contribute to abnormal insulin secretion in diabetes mellitus, we studied the effects of beta-endorphin infus...

During the 13-cycle effectiveness phase of a five-center study of the ovulation method of natural family planning, there were substantial differences, particularly between the two developed and the th...

A study was designed to see if the use of prophylactic progesterone vaginal suppositories (PVS) reduced the risk of spontaneous abortions in women with a history of at least one spontaneous abortion. ...

Reproductive change during conditioning exercise (physical training provides a model of hypothalamic adaptation to alterations in the external and internal environment. Parallels exist between the rep...

Plasma beta-endorphin (beta-EP), beta-lipotropin (beta-LPH), and cortisol concentrations were measured by perimenstrual period in 11 patients affected by premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and in 8 asymptoma...

We studied 500 women who conceived after investigation and treatment for different infertility problems and compared the outcome of the 5 infertility groups (Group 1 to 5), the ovulatory dysfunction (...

The nature and incidence of normal and abnormal spontaneous ovarian cycles, identified with ultrasound and endocrine tracking, were examined in 45 regularly cycling infertile women with no definitive ...

The luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome is a form of anovulation and a subtle cause of female infertility. The syndrome cannot be diagnosed by traditional progesterone-dependent ovulation detectio...

Six months of exercise training was associated with decreased premenstrual symptoms in two groups of women. There was no change in symptoms in nontraining women. Eight sedentary (ST) women increased r...

Controversy still exists as to the proper therapy of luteal phase defects. Some advocate using drugs to improve follicular dynamics, e.g., clomiphene citrate, while others treat luteal phase defects w...

Cervical incompetence is one of the main contributors to repeated pregnancy loss, accounting for approximately 25% of the cases. Typically it results in progressive cervical dilatation, leading to a p...

We have previously shown that prophylactic supplementation of progesterone beginning in the luteal phase of patients treated with human menopausal gonadotropins (hMG) could reduce the risk of spontane...

We previously reported that circulating beta-endorphin levels are increased in obese hirsute women and that plasma immunoreactive insulin (IRI) levels are increased in proportion to the degree of hype...

C-reactive protein has been used to identify patients at high risk for infectious morbidity with preterm labor or preterm rupture of membranes. In this article we report on 104 patients with preterm l...

Men with PRL-producing macroadenomas often present with hypogonadism and impotence. This report documents exacerbation of a PRL-secreting tumor after two separate 200-mg testosterone enanthate (T) inj...

In this series of patients, endometriosis does not involve more pelvic areas in older age groups. Exposure to pregnancy is associated with slightly less pelvic involvement, although this effect is inc...

Researchers used life table rates from study and comparison groups from rural and urban areas of Cagayan de Oro City, the Philippines to test a simplified method of teaching natural family planning (N...

Endocervical gland estrogen receptor (ER) deficiency has been proposed as a possible cause for the poor cervical mucus (CM) in some infertile women with cervical factor. Cytosol ERs were measured in e...

The lipoprotein fractions in mesenteric lymph were monitored following intraduodenal administration of arachis oil and oleic, linoleic and linolenic fatty acids to rats. An increase in the chylomicron...

In the past 32 years, lasers have progressed from interesting curiosities to important instruments in medicine and surgery, with a wide variety of wavelengths and medical-surgical applications. Today'...

Between 1983 and 1984 a double-blind randomized study with progesterone substitution in threatened abortion was carried out. Fifty-six patients with vaginal bleeding during the first trimester of preg...

This paper presents the main survey findings from a nationally representative sample of 607 users of periodic abstinence methods in the Philippines in 1984. The survey was conducted because of the wid...

Reproductive function in humans changes markedly during life and is usually divided into four stages. During the initial stage, which begins early in fetal life and ends in infancy, gonadotropins and ...

Examples of a combined approach using in vivo as well as in vitro methods for the assessment of prenatal toxicity are presented. The topics discussed include the analysis of the possible embryotoxic p...

High-volume intravenous urography was performed in 63 women with surgically proven endometriosis. Subtle abnormalities were found in 15.9% of these women. No patient had urologic symptoms, and there w...

Effective tocolytic therapy depends on the ability to make an early diagnosis of preterm labor. This study was designed to assess whether daily ambulatory home monitoring of uterine activity could fac...

Four patients who had no oocytes retrieved during an IVF cycle were studied in an attempt to identify predictors of such an occurrence and suggestions for its cause. All 30 follicles aspirated in five...

Peritoneal fluid (PF) was studied for the presence of endometrial tissue in a consecutive series of 67 women (with documented tubal patency) undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy, tubal lavage, and hyster...

A prospective study of six unselected couples diagnosed as having unexplained infertility was done. In three of six patients, subtle abnormalities in follicular development were detected. In the first...

The effectiveness of ovulation induction with clomiphene citrate or human menopausal gonadotropins was evaluated in 52 infertile women with stage I or stage II endometriosis and ovulatory dysfunction:...

Two hundred seventy-four infertile patients and 43 women with two or more previous first-trimester abortions underwent a luteal function evaluation by basal body temperature, plasma progesterone, estr...

There has been an increase in interest in natural family planning (NFP) in recent years. The Roman Catholic Church and other groups sympathetic to NFP philosophy have pressured the US Agency for Inter...

Factors influencing the probability of conception after artificial insemination with donor semen were investigated in a series of 80 infertile couples. Overall, 46 pregnancies were achieved for a crud...

Data on 575 couples undergoing 1057 consecutive cycles of in vitro fertilization (IVF) were used to calculate cumulative pregnancy rates for repeated IVF cycles. Excluding preclinical abortions and co...

We investigated the effects of using intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring in all pregnancies, as compared with using it only in cases in which the fetus is judged to be at high risk. Predominant ri...

Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infe...

The absorption, metabolism, and clearance of progesterone (P) from the peripheral circulation were investigated in five postmenopausal women after oral administration of 100 mg at 9:00 A.M. and 200 mg...

With the use of a rabbit surgical model, the ability of 1%, 2%, and 3% solutions of sodium carboxymethylcellulose to reduce postoperative uterine adhesions was determined. At all concentrations sodium...

Cervical examination between 26 and 30 weeks' gestation is described as a method for identifying women at risk for delivery before 34 weeks. Blinded cervical examinations were performed in 185 consecu...

Natural Family Planning (NFP) is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "methods for planning or avoiding pregnancies by observation of the natural signs and symptoms of the fertile and inf...

Forty-one women with breast cancer and 119 controls participated in a case-control study of the relation of endogenous sex hormones to breast carcinoma in premenopausal women. During the follicular ph...

The use of mefenamic acid in the treatment of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) was investigated in 15 women over six menstrual cycles. A randomized, double-blind, cross-over, placebo-controlled design was ...