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It has not been clear as to whether a cervical conization truly predisposes a patient to preterm birth (PTB). The authors of this enlightening paper set out to see if the interval between the procedure and subsequent conception had any effect on the incidence of PTB.
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Legro and colleagues, reporting for the Cooperative Multicenter Reproductive Medicine Network, presented the results of a multicenter, randomized trial indicating that clomiphene is superior to metformin in achieving live births in women with the polycystic ovary (PCO) syndrome.
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This retrospective chart review covered all patients with vulvodynia treated with gabapentin at a single facility between January of 2002 and September of 2004.
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The aim of the present study was to determine the extent to which there is an excess risk of postpartum psychiatric disorders in women vs men. The authors note that postpartum depression afflicts about 10-15% of women and postpartum psychosis about 0.1%.
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Silverman and colleagues reported the prevalence of depression in a cross-sectional subset of 3798 women in 6 English-speaking countries, who participated in the Multiple Outcomes of Raloxifene Evaluation (MORE) trial.
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Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy (NACT) for ovarian cancer refers specifically to the administration of cytotoxic therapy ahead of a planned surgical resection usually for primary therapy.
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Case and her co-authors performed a blinded and prospective evaluation of the accuracy of frozen section analysis in a cohort of 60 patients undergoing a surgical staging attempt. Their institutional policy was to formally stage all patients regardless of the uterine tumor characteristics.
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Black and colleagues reported the results of an extension of the alendronate Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT) in which the participants were randomized after 5 years of treatment either to another 5 years of treatment or placebo.
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This is a prospective, randomized, multi-centered study from Sweden in which the psychological well-being of 125 women scheduled for hysterectomy was evaluated for up to 6 months post-operative. Of those enrolled, 119 completed the study with 56 undergoing abdominal hysterectomy and 63 having a laparoscopic hysterectomy.
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