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3 cases of stroke in young women of childbearing age are presented to show the severity of illness and mortality in women using oral contraceptives. All 3 patients smoked more than 15 cigarettes a day...

Tubal abrasions were surgically induced in 25 rhesus monkeys following demonstration of tubal patency. Five monkeys received dexamethasone, promethazine, and ampicillin perioperatively, five received ...

Progesterone and human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) in serum and pregnandiol in urine were measured in 64 patients admitted to hospital because of threatened abortion. Blood samples were taken and ur...

5 patients are described who developed severe osteomalacia with spontaneous fractures after 2-4 years on dialysis. Phosphate control, vitamin D2 therapy and parathyroidectomy were ineffective. These i...

The concentration of human beta-endorphin (beta h-EP)) was measured in various hypothalamic nuclei, in extrahypothalamic brain regions and in the anterior and posterior lobes of the pituitary using a ...

It is commonplace for gynecologists to refer to "midcycle" ovulation of women. This concept has often led to the routine diagnosis of ovulatory status on day 14 of what is expected to be a 28-day mens...

We describe the opioid properties of a tridecapeptide, the sequence of which corresponds to the NH2-terminal sequence of dynorphin, a novel porcine pituitary endorphin. It contains [Leu]enkephalin. In...

The plasma concentrations of progesterone and 5-alpha-pregnane-3,20-dione (5-alpha-dihydroprogesterone) were measured from as early as 12 weeks through 41 weeks of gestation in primigravid women. Two ...

In this report, the ultrastructure of eM was studied by cryo-scanning electron microscopy (cryo-scan), which enabled us to observe the sample while it still contained water. … It was then placed in a ...

Six long-term hemodialysis patients with progressive skeletal deterioration during long-term pharmacologic vitamin D2 therapy were treated for six to 12 months with oral 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol ...

Studies have been undertaken regarding the efficacy and modus operandi of 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17 alpha-OHP-C) in preventing premature labor in high-risk patients. In a total of 70 p...

Patients with premenstrual syndrome recorded their symptoms daily using menstrual distress questionnaires. These were analysed by a least mean square method of fitting sine waves. After recording an u...

Lack of standardization in analytic methods for assigning infertility data is attributed to inadequate classification of fertility problems, and a lack of consistent methodology in evaluating outcome ...

Patients with different types of luteal phase defects were studied with the use of the radioimmunoassay for the beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to determine if unsuspected subclinic...

Daily (12-hour) urine collections taken throughout the menstrual cycle were obtained from 30 young women who by genetic analysis were at risk for familial breast cancer, and from 30 control women care...

The experience of the gynecologic endocrinology and infertility clinic at The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been subjected to a nonconcurrent prospective analysis in an attempt to evaluate the gestationa...

Lymphocyte reactivity was measured in human mixed lymphocyte (MLC) and mitogen-stimulated cultures in the presence of various steroids. When present during the entire culture period at concentrations ...

This study was designed to test the assumption that women with regular menstrual cycles and premenstrual symptoms are ovulatory. 40 women aged 20-40 years were selected as probably ovulatory on the ba...

NFP (natural family planning) has replaced the term of rhythm method in the last decade as a designation for those methods of fertility regulation based on periodic abstinence. A graph presents the sy...

This article describes the theory, methodology, and effectiveness of three natural methods of family planning: rhythm by calendar, strict basal body temperature rhythm, and combination calendar-BBT rh...

HYPOSPADIAS is a common anomaly of the urogenital system. The prevalence rate reported by various birth-defect monitoring programs shows a rather wide variation, ranging from about five per 10,000 to ...

Conflicting results have been published regarding changes in plasma progesterone during the last trimester of pregnancy. Some have demonstrated a fall in plasma progesterone before labor, and this has...

12 normal ovulatory women were studied during 17 menstrual cycles. The first day on which the women had increasing quantities of 0.1 ml or more clear cervical mucus (IQCCM) was closely related to the ...

St. Louis University Natural Family Planning Center. St. Louis. Missouri and Creighton University Natural Family Planning Education and Research Center, Omaha. Nebraska

Patients with two or more previous spontaneous second trimester abortions and vaginal cytology indicating a poor progestational response in current pregnancies were selected for treatment with Provera...

Pelvic adhesion formation represents a major problem following fallopian tube surgery for infertility. Intraperitoneal dextran may prevent pelvic adhesions. Extensive personal clinical experience (W. ...

The development of two groups of children whose mothers had been given progesterone supplements during pregnancy to relieve symptoms of toxaemia was assessed, one group at 2 yr of age and the other at...

Plasma progesterone, 17-hydroxyprogesterone, 20alpha hydroxypregn-4-en-3-one levels were determined twice weekly up to 16 weeks gestation, where possible, in a twin pregnancy, in two patients who abor...

Pip: The only way to be sure of avoiding pregnancy is for a couple to abstain from sexual intimacy during the fertile phase of the woman's cycle. Billings showed by reference to hormonal parameters th...

In rhesus monkeys with hypothalamic lesions that abolish gonadotropic hormone release by the pituitary gland, the constant infusion of exogenous gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) fails to restore ...

The observation of the "Peak" mucus symptom in women using the ovulation method of natural family planning has been correlated with the estimated time of ovulation, as evaluated by indirect hormonal p...

The only way to be sure of avoiding pregnancy is for a couple to abstain from sexual intimacy during the fertile phase of the woman's cycle. Billings showed by reference to hormonal parameters that af...

There are currently signs that more women are considering the natural family planning methods as an alternative to medical contraception. In response to this revival of interest, the World Health Orga...

Observations of random obstetrical cases out of a large-volume practice are presented to demonstrate the often overlooked effects of filling the urinary bladder for obstetrical sonography. The effects...

In gravid women who are destined to develop pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), normal pregnancy-associated refractoriness to the pressor effects of administered angiotensin II (A-II) is lost severa...

Estriol was administered for a six-month period as estrogen replacement therapy to 52 symptomatic postmenopausal women. Assays of serum follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), es...

17 beta-Estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P) concentrations in blood and in the myometrium of human pregnancy at term (n=33) and in a few samples (n=5) around midterm of pregnancy were determined. E2 c...

Summary: Plasma levels of progesterone (P), oestradiol (OE2), unconjugated oestriol (OE3) and total OE3 were measured in blood samples taken from patients with fetal growth retardation, pre-eclampsia ...

Salpingostomy for hydrosalpinx was carried out using a microsurgical technique. The postoperative patency rate was over 90%. Among the 41 patients followed for more than 1 year, 29% have had one or mo...

Ovariectomized rhesus monkeys bearing hypothalamic lesions which had abolished endogenous LHRH production, as evidenced by a profound reduction in gonadotropin secretion, but in which LH and FSH secre...

A clinical description of luteinized unruptured follicles is presented. This abnormality in ovulation is characterized by normal endocrinologic presumptive signs of ovulation: biphasic basal body temp...

The new methods of natural family planning, i.e., the cervical mucus and symptothermal methods, provide couples with a form of birth control which is medically safe, totally and immediately reversible...

Data from Malaysia on the reproductive goals of husbands and wives are analyzed to determine level of agreement, using new scale measures on preferences for number and sex of children as well as the c...