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abstract：:Inclusion of women in research studies is necessary for valid inferences about health and disease in women. The generalization of results from trials conducted in men may yield erroneous conclusions that fail to account for the biologic differences between men and women. Although significant changes in research design...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

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更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vulvar symptoms of pain, dyspareunia, and pruritus are common and may significantly affect a woman's sense of well-being and sexual function. Despite this, vulvar symptoms are often underreported by women. When identified, however, vulvovaginal symptoms should be addressed by health care providers to optimize care. Th...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Stockdale CK,Boardman L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of meconium peritonitis that was diagnosed ultrasonographically in the early third trimester in a patient with acute polyhydramnios is presented. The pathophysiologic progression of this condition is demonstrated by serial ultrasound examinations. Neonatal radiologic confirmation of the diagnosis is also presen...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Williams J 3rd,Nathan RO,Worthen NJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Currently, treatment of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) of the preterm newborn incorporates exogenous surfactant administration. Because fetuses make breathing motions, we proposed that intra-amniotic administration of an exogenous surfactant, Exosurf, to the preterm rabbit fetus results in uptake of Exos...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Galan HL,Kuehl TJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine risk factors for pregnancy after tubal sterilization with bipolar electrocoagulation. METHODS:A total of 2267 women who had bipolar electrocoagulation were followed for up to 8 to 14 years as part of a multicenter, prospective, cohort study conducted in medical centers in nine United States citi...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Peterson HB,Xia Z,Wilcox LS,Tylor LR,Trussell J

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstructed labor due to a large sacrococcygeal tumor is reported. A technique of transabdominal intrauterine reduction in the size of the tumor to allow delivery of the infant in satisfactory condition is described. The method and the successful outcome have not previously been reported. It is recommended as a combine...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Edwards WR

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uterine torsion is defined as the rotation of more than 45 degrees around the long axis of the uterus. An uncommon but potentially fatal event, uterine torsion is rarely diagnosed until the time of surgery. With magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), however, an accurate diagnosis of uterine torsion may now be ma...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Nicholson WK,Coulson CC,McCoy MC,Semelka RC

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare a "no touch" approach to diagnostic hysteroscopy without anesthesia with traditional diagnostic hysteroscopy after intracervical injection of mepivacaine hydrochloride 3%. METHODS:A total of 130 women undergoing diagnostic hysteroscopy were included in the study and were randomized, using a comput...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Sagiv R,Sadan O,Boaz M,Dishi M,Schechter E,Golan A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of 25 patients with more than 1 rubella titer by hemagglutination-inhibition testing revealed 3 patients with high positive titers that were reported to be negative in subsequent pregnancies. None of the patients had received the rubella vaccine. Because the sensitivity and reliability of hemagglutination-inh...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Hall JA,Wills ER,Hall K,Pearson JW

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the feasibility of using cytologic examination of ovarian cyst fluid for distinguishing between benign and malignant tumors. METHODS:Cyst fluid was aspirated at surgery in 83 women with benign and 35 women with malignant (25 invasive and ten borderline) ovarian tumors and submitted for routine cyto...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Moran O,Menczer J,Ben-Baruch G,Lipitz S,Goor E

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the efficacy and safety of a single-incision mini-sling compared with a transobturator midurethral sling for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) treatment. METHODS:This prospective single-center randomized controlled trial involved 130 women with a diagnosis of SUI. Primary outcomes were the objec...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Djehdian LM,Araujo MP,Takano CC,Del-Roy CA,Sartori MGF,Girão MJBC,Castro RA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the use of the Auto Suture Poly CS-57 disposable surgical stapler to determine if the device offers any advantages over suture closure of the uterus. METHODS:A matched case-control study design was used. Operative time, estimated blood loss, change in hematocrit, incidence of postoperative endome...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Gilson GJ,Kephart WH,Izquierdo LA,Joffe GM,Qualls CR,Curet LB

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare biopsychologic profiles of women with dyspareunia with a matched no-pain control sample, and to determine whether dyspareunia subtypes based on physical findings have different psychosocial profiles from matched controls. METHODS:One hundred and five women with dyspareunia and 105 matched no-pain ...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Meana M,Binik YM,Khalife S,Cohen DR

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Over-the-counter vaginal lubricants have been shown to negatively affect in vitro sperm motility. The objective of this study was to estimate the effect of vaginal lubricant use during procreative intercourse on natural fertility. METHODS:Women aged 30-44 years with no history of infertility who had been try...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Steiner AZ,Long DL,Tanner C,Herring AH

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between bodily build and susceptibility to eclampsia has been controversial for nearly two centuries and the issue has been confused by modern studies of women with nonconvulsive hypertensive disorders in whom the diagnosis of preeclampsia is frequently erroneous. The present study is based upon 193 previ...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Chesley LC

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparing and contrasting two patients with pseudocyesis made it clear that differing psychodynamic factors specific to each patient resulted in divergent ways in which they sought out and used medical care. The propensity of these patients to distort reality was observed to interfere with the usefulness of sonography...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Starkman MN

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Successful DNA typing after rape is limited when only a few sperm and numerous vaginal cells are recovered from a swab, resulting in an extremely unfavorable ratio of male to female DNA. The goal of this study was to develop a protocol involving sperm cell sorting with flow cytometry based on differences in ...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Schoell WM,Klintschar M,Mirhashemi R,Pertl B

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review comprises 36 patients who were treated for Asherman's syndrome from 1968 to 1974 at the Sloane Hospital for Women. Of the 18 patients who later conceived only 6 had uncomplicated term deliveries. Four had premature deliveries resulting in neonatal death. Three had placenta accreta and postpartum hemorrhage...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Jewelewicz R,Khalaf S,Neuwirth RS,Vande Wiele RL

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the incidence, mortality, and risk factors for pregnancy-related stroke in the United States. METHODS:The Nationwide Inpatient Sample from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, for the years 2000-2001 was queried for International Classific...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： James AH,Bushnell CD,Jamison MG,Myers ER

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women who develop preeclampsia during pregnancy excrete less calcium than healthy pregnant women. Whether this reduction in calcium excretion precedes or follows hypertension is unknown. We prospectively measured urinary calcium excretion in 103 consecutive nulliparous women at risk for preeclampsia and presenting for...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Sanchez-Ramos L,Jones DC,Cullen MT

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define the strengths and weaknesses of existing research on the natural history of cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) and to estimate rates of progression and regression without treatment. DATA SOURCES:Studies of women whose cervical smears showed squamous atypia or worse and who were observe...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Melnikow J,Nuovo J,Willan AR,Chan BK,Howell LP

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preimplantation genetic diagnosis has been used to decrease or avoid the risk of transmitting identified mutations to offspring. CASE:A 29-year-old woman with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita and her 30-year-old husband with Marfan syndrome underwent in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Smith LP,Hughes MR,Thirumoorthi I,Proud VK,Penzias AS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if systemic processing of pain differs in women with and without dysmenorrhea. METHODS:Twenty-two dysmenorrheic women and 31 nondysmenorrheic women were studied by pain threshold and supra-threshold magnitude estimation to heat stimuli, pain-evoked potentials by laser stimuli, and anxiety scores...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Granot M,Yarnitsky D,Itskovitz-Eldor J,Granovsky Y,Peer E,Zimmer EZ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 27-year-old, previously healthy normotensive woman was admitted for hyperemesis gravidarum and treated with intravenous fluids and metoclopramide. Thereafter, a neuropsychiatric syndrome developed, with acute asymmetrical axonal motor-sensory polyneuropathy and marked anxiety, depression, irritability, and memory an...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Milo R,Neuman M,Klein C,Caspi E,Arlazoroff A

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oophorectomy is not always performed at the time of vaginal hysterectomy because of technical difficulties encountered in visualizing the ovaries and clamping and ligating the infundibulopelvic ligament. After uterine removal, a method that simplifies the approach involves separating the round ligament along the avasc...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Jelen I,Bachmann G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the interaction of exogenous adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), a P2 receptor agonist, with prostaglandin F(2alpha) (PGF(2alpha)) on pregnant women in labor as well as on isolated human pregnant uterus preparations. METHODS:For an in vitro study, myometrial samples were obtained from 27 women un...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Ziganshin AU,Zefirova JT,Zefirova TP,Ziganshina LE,Hoyle CH,Burnstock G

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether prepregnancy obesity is associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes among women without chronic disease. METHODS:Singleton deliveries (N=112,309) among mothers without chronic diseases in the Consortium on Safe Labor, a retrospective U.S. cohort, were analyzed using Poisson regression w...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Kim SS,Zhu Y,Grantz KL,Hinkle SN,Chen Z,Wallace ME,Smarr MM,Epps NM,Mendola P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare umbilical cord and maternal serum peak gentamicin concentration, gentamicin elimination, and clinical outcomes between women who received once-daily compared with standard, thrice-daily dosing for clinical chorioamnionitis. METHODS:We randomly assigned 38 laboring women, at least 34 weeks gestatio...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Locksmith GJ,Chin A,Vu T,Shattuck KE,Hankins GD

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) has proven effective in epidermoid cancers of the head and neck. Its effectiveness has been correlated with the ability of the patient's immunologic system to recognize new antigens. In this study, 8 patients with carcinoma in situ of the vulva were evaluated and treated with topical 5-FU...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Krupp PJ,Bohm JW

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of a patient with an ovarian cyst weighing 71.1 kg is described. Preoperative paracentesis did not improve the condition of the patient and should be avoided. Supine hypotension from vena caval occlusion, technically difficult surgery, massive blood replacement, prolonged postoperative ventilatory failu...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Hunter DJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00