Ginecology

OBJETIVOS: reportar el caso de una gestante con diagnóstico de feto con teratoma nasofaríngeo inmaduro y realizar una revisión describiendo el pronóstico de esta patología. Materiales y métodos: se reporta el caso de una gestante de 27 años, atendida en la Unidad de Ginecología y Obstétrica de un centro de referencia en Bogotá (Colombia), por hallazgo durante el control prenatal de un feto con evidencia de polihidramnios secundario a teratoma nasofaríngeo...

OBJETIVOS: generar recomendaciones informadas en la evidencia, a través de un consenso formal, orientadas al tratamiento de la infección de vías urinarias altas durante la gestación. Materiales y métodos: en el grupo desarrollador participaron expertos temáticos en microbiología, salud pública, medicina interna, infectología, obstetricia, medicina materno-fetal e infectología ginecobstét r ica. También hicieron par te profesionales con entrenamiento en epidemiología clínica, búsqueda sistemática de la información, representantes de la Secretaría de Salud y la Asociación Bogotana de Obstetricia y Ginecología...

During pregnancy, thyroid function disorders are associated with multiple complications, both maternal and foetal. In recent years, numerous Clinical Practice Guidelines have been developed to facilitate the identification and correct management of thyroid disease in pregnant women. However, this proliferation of guidelines has led to confusion by proposing different cut-off points for reference values and different recommendations for similar situations. For this reason, the Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición and the Sociedad Española de Ginecología y Obstetricia have prepared this Consensus Document, with the aim of creating a framework for joint action to unify criteria for the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid dysfunction in these patients...

Endometriosis is an inflammatory disease which diagnostics is difficult and often invasive, therefore non-invasive diagnostics methods and parameters are needed for endometriosis detection. The aim of our study was to analyse the glycosylation of native serum IgG and IgG isolated from sera of women classified as: with endometriosis, without endometriosis but with some benign ginecological disease, and control group of healthy women, in context of its utility for differentiation of advanced endometriosis from the group of healthy women...

INTRODUCTION: According to the World Health Organization, depression is the most prevalent mental disorder and burnout syndrome can occur among individuals whose work involves care or assistance to people, and, given that residents may have heavy workloads, it is important to study burnout's frequency in them. OBJECTIVE: To know the frequency of burnout syndrome and depression in Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN) residents. METHODS: A prospective, observational, cross-sectional, and descriptive study was carried out in OB/GYN residents...

OBJECTIVE: Cervical carcinoma (CC) is the second cause of death among women aged 15 and 44 in Spain. CC is linked to hig-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) infection and its prevalence varies according age and geographical region. The awereness of the latter is essential for public health prevention efforts. The aim was to study the age related in HR-HPV genotypes in cytologies with squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL). METHODS: From a total of 67,935 ginecologic cytologies over a four-year period, we selected cytologic specimens with SIL...

Renal involvement affects over one half of patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus increasing their mortality and morbidity, including chronic renal disease and the need of renal replacement therapies. Aiming to achieve a consensus in the most relevant topics on diagnosis, therapy and follow-up of patients with lupus renal disease, the Chilean Societies of Nephrology and Rheumatology constituted a workgroup that, based on a critical review of the available literature and their experience, raised and answered by consensus a set of relevant questions...

BACKGROUND: The carcinosarcoma, or Mixed Mullerian Malign Tumors, represent 1% of malignant ovarian neoplasm, they are formed by a component epithelium and another mesenquimal malignant both. OBJECTIVE: Report the experience of the Ginecological Department of the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (Mexico) in the treatment of patients with ovarian carcinosarcoma or primary malignant of the ovary. METHODS: A retrospective of 8 cases of carcinosarcoma primary of ovary at National Institute of Cancerology, from January, 2005 to December, 2008...

Cancers are diagnosed in over few millions patients annually. Due to inter alia weak antigenicity as well as drug-fastness of most cancers, PDT can become an effective alternative or complementary method to surgery. Photodynamic method requires tree elements: photosensitizer, light energy source and oxygen. Photodynamic therapy is successfully used method in many clinics all over the world, also in Poland. PDT is used in treatment of oncological (cancers of head, neck, lung, oesophagus, pancreas, urinary bladder and ginecological cancers) as non oncological diseases (lischen sclerosus, staphylococcus aureus, papillomatosis)...

OBJECTIVES: To apply Wolff's Criteria to hospital discharge records (HDR) in order to detect adverse events worthy of further study. METHODS: Gynecology and Obstetrics Units of three Sicilian hospitals were considered and HDR regarding ordinary and day hospital admissions in 2008 were collected. A matched case-control study was designed, by random selection of 10 controls at maximum for each case. Matching was performed on the variables age and speciality of admission (gynecology or obstetrics)...

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and evolution of the atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance (AGUS) without associated lesions identified on cervical Pap smear. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Retrospective study concerning 33.923 cervicovaginal smears performed in the Cytopathology Department of the Coimbra University Hospital (H.U.C.) between January 1995 an December 1997. AGUS diagnosis, isolated or associated with other lesions, was made in 716 cases...

The research carried out in Poland reflected that sexual initiation before 18 years of age is a common phenomenon and refers to roughly 80% of teenagers. In Poland there is no uniform standing of medical and legal environments with regard to dealing with a juvenile patient who has become sexually active and expects the advice of a gynaecologist, gynaecologic examination and often asks for prescribing contraceptives. The procedures must take into account the fact that in Poland, until 18 years of age, a juvenile functions under the parental or tutelary authority, while a consent for medical service requires beside of the consent of legal guardian also the consent of a juvenile who is 16 years of age and becomes a full-right patient...

BACKGROUND/AIM: [corrected] Radical hysterectomy is a surgical approach for stage Ib and IIa of cervical cancer. The incidence of intraoperative injuries of the bladder during radical hysterectomy ranges from 0.4-3.7%. The ureter can be crushed, caught in sutures, transsected, obstructed by angulation, or ischemic by the stippling or periureteric fascia. Vesicovaginal and ureterovaginal fistuls are reported to develop in 0.9-2% of patients after radical abdominal hysterectomy. Fistulas usually become manifested or visible at speculum examination within 14 days following the surgery...

A 33 years old male patient was admitted at the Ginecology/Obstetric emergency room with acute pain abdomen. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy where it was found 1,400 cc of blood in the peritoneal cavity. It was also found a 10 cm diameter tumor on the right lateral uterus side involving the uterine tube, the ovary and the ipsilateral parametrium. In the omentum there were found two 3 cm diameter tumors like the one found in the uterus. The bleeding was under control so it was made a hysterectomy, bilateral salpingooophorectomy and omentectomy...

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Prof. dr. Hugo Gjanković is among the most prominent Croatian doctors of this century. He has studied medicine in Austria and has been promoted in Wienna in 1920. First he worked unpaid in Ginecology Clinics in Wienna and then in 1922. he was accepted as assistant doctor at newly established Surgery Clinic of the Medical Faculty University of Zagreb. He worked hard to become respectable surgeon and university teacher. He was an effervescent member of the Croatian Medical Association--lecturing, publishing numerous papers and participating at many congresses in the country and abroad...

Carcinoma of the cervix is tha most common ginecologic cancer found during pregnancy. Management and treatment of this condition depend on cancer stage and estimated gestational age. Pregnancy represents an ideal time for cervical cancer screening, and all pregnant women presenting for prenatal care should be carefully examinated. The prognosis for pregnant women is similar to that for non-pregnant one. The aim of this study is to review the incidence, treatment and prognosis of this condition during pregnancy...

Dr Jan Gwiazdomorski founded the first infirmary that was called Health House in Cracow in 1883. In the begining its addresses was No 39 Karmelicka Street, and in 1889 it was moved to No 1 Siemiradzkiego Street. Surgical, ginecological, obstetric and other patients were admitted there except those suffering from contagious diseases and mental disorders. After its founder's death, "Dom Zdrowia" was taken over by surgeon Maksymilian Rutkowski and gynecologist Bruno Wojciechowski who adapted it for new patient's needs...

OBJECTIVE: The WHOQOL group have developed an instrument to evaluate Quality of Life, the WHOQOL-100, available in 20 different languages (WHOQOL Group, 1998). The field trial of the portuguese version of the instrument is presented. METHODS: Two hundred and fifty patients from four main medical areas (Psychiatry, Clinical, Surgery and Ginecology) of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre and 50 controls were evaluated with the Portuguese version of the WHO Quality of Life Instrument (WHOQOL-100), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) in Porto Alegre, south Brazil...

Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) has been one of the most important advances in Ginecology and Obstetrics technology, it has contributed to improve understanding on deeper biological mechanisms of human reproduction. Since Louise Brown's birth, in 1978, in vitro fertilization and Human Embryos Transference (HET) developed by Steptoe and Edwards, became the basis for new AHR methods. Later, writen information has increased, so, it is easy to find a lot of scientific reports in national and international specialized journals...