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In a recent paper, Walker and McDowell contacted 1200 patients having had this procedure since 1996 at either the Royal Surrey County Hospital or the London clinic. One hundred eight women had tried to become pregnant and 33 succeeded at least once. In total, the authors had data on 56 completed pregnancies.
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Lumbar Disk Herniation: Is Surgical Treatment Superior to Conservative Management?; Rimonabant: An Answer to Overweight in Diabetes?; Renin Inhibitors: A new Class of Antihypertensive Agents; Is There a Link between Coffee and Diabetes?; Is it Time to Start Screening for Lung Cancer?; Can Ramipril Prevent Progression from Pre-Diabetes to Diabetes?
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The lead paper in the November issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology should stimulate lively discussion regarding the counseling of patients of advanced maternal age (AMA), and, if taken at face value, could impact the field of prenatal diagnosis, in general.
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The resection of tumor nodules (or cytoreduction) before primary chemotherapy has been linked closely with survival in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer. Chi and colleagues set out to evaluate the merits of cytoreduction completeness in a homogeneous cohort of ovarian cancer patients with bulky metastatic disease.
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Kahlenborn and colleagues performed a meta-analysis of case-control studies published after 1979 that focused on the use of oral contraceptives and the risk of premenopausal breast cancer.
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Drug Labels A Prescription for Misunderstanding?; Osteonecrosis of the Jaw New Side-Effect to Bisphosphate Use; Beta-Blockers and Depression Unlinked?; FDA Actions
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Lacey and colleagues from the National Cancer Institute reported the results of postmenopausal hormone exposure in a cohort study with 214 cases of ovarian cancer.1 The over-all cohort of 97,368 women constituted the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.
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The stroke and death rates at one and 6 months were lower in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (> 60%) treated with endarterectomy versus stenting.
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A meta-analysis of 10 studies of heparin used either for prophylaxis or for treatment suggests that venous thromboembolism related to heparin-induced thrombocytopenia occurs frequently in patients previously treated with unfractionated heparin, but uncommonly in those on low molecular weight heparin.