Indian Contribution to Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Indian contribution to obstetrics and gynaecology.

Dr. Vithal Nilkanth Purandare was born in a family of legends. His father Dr. N. A. Purandare and brother Dr. B. N. Purandare were very famous Gynecologists of their times. Yet, because of his grit and determination, he managed to cut his own turf, and carve his own niche. He was a complete obstetrician and gynecologist, a teacher par excellence and a master surgeon. He was born in Bombay on Ap...

Indian contribution to obstetrics & gynecology.

In the year 1951, there was a conference of renowned Gynecologists and Obstetricians from all over the world at Paris. The representative from India thundered in the Conference that no woman should loose her precious baby because of cervical incompetence. He disclosed a totally different and innovative approach for cervical incompetence. He described cervical cerclage operation for habitual sec...

Indian contribution to obstetrics and gynecology.

Dr. V. B. Patwardhan was born in Bombay on June 5, 1932 to Dr. Bhalchandra Patwardhan as the eldest of five siblings. He possessed an early fascination for the English language and would read heaps and heaps of books—both fiction and nonfiction. He joined Wilson school and later St. Xavier’s college. After completing Interscience course, he joined Grant Medical College from where he completed h...

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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...