Inaugural Address on Modern Progress in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Bromocriptine in obstetrics and gynaecology.

Bromocriptine, the active ingredient of Parlodel is a specific dopamine receptor agonist available for use in clinical practice. It has been successfully used in the treatment of hyperprolactinemia with associated amenorrhea, galactorrhea and infertility; in the inhibition of postpartum lactation; acromegaly and in Parkinson's disease. Its role in obstetrics and gynaecology is strategic since i...

Prostaglandins in obstetrics and gynaecology.

THE first reports of the use of the natural prostaglandins in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology appeared in 1968, initially for the induction of term labour in patients with fetal death and subsequently for patients with a live fetus. Since then numerous clinical reports have described the efficacy of using prostaglandins for this purpose administered by a variety of different routes and ...

Professor of obstetrics and gynaecology

randomised studies of the widely used immunosuppressive regimens for treating sperm antibodies, though a study is now under way. No controlled trials of different methods of in vitro fertilisation have used childbirth as the end point. Thus the first advance must be to organise randomised controlled trials to test widely used treatments. In order to avoid the type II error large cohort sizes wi...

Inaugural address.

It is a matter of great pleasure for me to extend, on behalf of the ICAR and on my personal behalf, a warm welcome to all, especially to our very distinguished delegates who have traveled from various parts of the world to participate in the Conference. I am glad to share with you that the Conference is being held at a time when our Central Institute on Buffalo Research has completed 25 years o...