Nearly 70% of patients achieving a CR after primary therapy eventually recurred. Most recurrences occurred more than 6 months from completion of primary chemotherapy, and the use of second line agents at the time of recurrence was effective.
Two premenopausal patients with resis tant endometriosis were successfully treated with a combination of the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole, Prometrium, calcitrol, and rofecoxib. Both patients had been diagnosed with endometriosis via laparoscopy, and had undergone GnRH suppression.
Smith and colleagues performed a case-control study of venous thrombosis and hormone users in postmenopausal women registered in a large health maintenance organization (the Group Health Cooperative) in the state of Washington.
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In working up vaginitis symptoms, useful signs are inflammation and odor, information concerning odor and itching are useful symptoms, and office microscopy is the most accurate laboratory test.
In a recent study from Japan, Toivonen and colleagues set out to determine how much more susceptible women experiencing placental abruption were to having a recurrence of this problem in a subsequent pregnancy. They scanned a database which encompassed 14,326 deliveries during a one-year period at a busy university hospital.
The ECG in the Figure was interpreted as showing sinus tachycardia with non-specific ST-T wave abnormalities. Do you agree?
