UROLOGICAL INJURIES 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 ...

Urological Complications of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Surgeries in a Developing Country

Results: During this period, 8,270 obstetrics and gynaecology surgeries were performed; Twenty five patients (0.31%) had urological complications. The mean age was 38.4 years (range 24-62 years). The commonest initial diagnosis was uterine fibroids in 9 patients followed by uterine rupture in 8 patients. Total abdominal hysterectomy (12 patients) was the commonest surgery. Twenty-one patients h...

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...