obstectrics

Although a significant decrease has been reported in the incidence of diphteria in many regions of the world following the routine diphtheria immunization programs, the emergence of new cases indicated that toxigenic strains are still circulating in the community. Diphtheria vaccine does not provide protection against asymptomatic carriage and colonization of non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is a known fact that invasive infections may arise from non-toxigenic C.diphtheriae strains that the non-toxigenic strains can become toxigenic strains leading to diphteria...

BACKGROUND: Pre-term delivery is usually associated with low birth weight and is a known obstectrics problem in our setting. Few Histopathologists are interested in placental pathology, and this is particularly so because consent is often difficult to get from the relatives making few specimens available for study in our environment. OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to evaluate the placental histopathology in low birth weight infants (LBW, birth weight < 2500 g) and to determine if placental histopathological findings are associated with low birth weight and preterm deliveries...

The Obstectrics and Gynecology Hospital attached to Fudan University has made great achievements in the clinical and experimental study of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in the past 45 years. Study on induction of ovulation with acupuncture revealed the relationship between circulating estrogen and central beta-endorphin, and suggested that the depletion of central beta-endorphin resulted in the release of GnRH and ovulation, and the main indication for acupuncture treatment was pubertal dysfunctional uterine bleeding...

PURPOSE: Epithelial ovarian cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in women. Five-year survival is about 25%, and new approaches to the treatment of this disease are dearly warranted. This study was designed to determine the feasibility of using an in vitro assay for drug resistance to guide treatment after cytoreductive surgery. We present preliminary results of this study after a median follow-up of 24 months. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We treated 66 patients with advanced ovarian cancer by use of a combination of cytoreductive surgery and chemotherapy...

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