Embryo transfer and its related factors received little clinical attention and had been, until recently, the most inefficient step in in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Factors which appear to influence implantation rates are: contamination of the catheter tip with cervical bacteria, stimulation of uterine contractions during the procedure, the type of catheter, ultrasound guidance during the transf...

Background: Cervical spondylosis is a degenerative process involving changes in soft tissue and bone of intervertebral discs. Objective: To evaluate wrestling induced cervical spondylosis. Methods: 83 male wrestlers with the age range of 15 to 55 were randomly studied against 79 non-wrestlers of the same age. Clinical and radiological assessments were carried out and recorded in both groups. Wr...

Two cases of delayed progressive paralysis of the upper limbs in an adult and a teenage patient, without neurological deficits in other regions of the body, are presented. In both cases, the pathology appeared to be a traction lesion of the middle cervical and lower cervical nerve roots, due to abnormal angulation of the nerve roots, which first ran up and then downward in the neural foramina a...

Persistent microorganisms in the root canal are known to cause endodontic treatments failure. Overextended gutta-percha can also act as a periradicular tissue irritant, leading to large periapical lesions. Retrieval of overextended gutta-percha with a nonsurgical approach can prove to be a challenge. This case describes the nonsurgical management of a large periapical lesion associated with ove...

OBJECTIVE To determine the stiffness of the pregnant uterine cervix in vivo. METHOD Five women in early pregnancy and six women in late pregnancy were included. The EndoFlip is a 1-m-long probe with a 12-cm-long bag mounted on the tip. The tip of the probe was inserted into the cervical canal. Sensors spaced at 0.5-cm intervals along the probe were used to determine 16 serial cross-sectional ...

Relaxin and estrogen reduced the resistance to dilatation of the mouse cervical canal. Relaxin was stored in, and secreted from , the ovaries of pregnant mice. The corpus luteum of gravid women just at delivery contained 25-50 GPU/g of relaxin, while the placenta, amniotic fluid and serum had no relaxin activity. Luteinizing hormone, luteotropic hormone and oxytocin effected elongation of the i...

We describe 2 brothers with L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria who developed severe spastic tetraparesis in their 30s. They also had an underlying condition of high-grade cervical spinal canal stenosis diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging. They were operated on to decompress the spine, and the preexisting gait disturbances slowly diminished after the decompression. Since most people with L-2-hydro...

Cervical insufficiency is one of the most frequent reasons for late miscarriage and preterm birth. Its rate increased in women who conceived after use additional reproductive technologies. The objective: to assess parameters cervical elastography with anovulatory infertility a history. Materials methods. 40 pregnant treatment associated anovulation were examined term 16–20 weeks: I group (20 pe...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) can activate Toll-like receptor (TLR)/nitric oxide (NO) signaling pathways; however, whether the TLR/NO pathway is involved in cervical cancer caused by high-risk HPV (HR-HPV) remains unclear. In this study, 43 HR-HPV-positive patients with cervical cancer (CC group), 39 HR-HPV-positive patients with a healthy cervix (HR-HPV group), and 33 HR-HPV-negative controls wer...

Puvitha R. Duraisami* Department of Pathology, Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) or sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy is a rare, benign, histiocytic proliferative disorder. It can be encountered in both nodal and extra nodal locations. Fine needle aspiration technique is a simple, accurate and most economic tool, being used wide...