Background: The majority of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in women are asymptomatic, but they may give rise to tubal infertility. Screening programmes aim at reducing morbidity in individual by early detect and treatment, and at decreasing the overall prevalence of infection in the population. Materials and Methods: A total of 135 women presenting with a history of infertility(n=113(83.7%) p...

At present, prevention of thalassaemia and sickle cell disease is the only realistic approach to control the birth of new patients in countries having high numbers of carriers. This is fully justified because avoiding the birth of an ever increasing number of patients may allow a more effective use of the available resources in improving the management of the patients surviving today and allevi...

Hepatopancreatoduodenectomy (HPD) represents the most complex abdominal operation comprising generally large resections of hepatic parenchyma combined with gastroduodenum-pancreatectomy, in which its main indications include biliary tract neoplasia. Surgical resection is considered the only potential modality of cure in the treatment of malignant biliary tumors, including gallbladder cancer and...

BACKGROUND The purpose of our study was to assess the long-term results in the management of patients with esthesioneuroblastoma. METHODS A total of 28 patients were retrospectively reviewed to analyze their clinical features, treatment outcomes, pattern of failures, and course of the disease. RESULTS The patients were classified as 2 patients with T1, 10 patients with T2, 10 patients with ...

In this area, there was a large group of well women aged over 35 years eager for breast screening. For this survey using clinical examination, thermography, and mammography, we selected women considered to be at higher than average risk of breast cancer. Initially, unselected women were seen, by appointment, for clinical examination and thermography (see pp. 1664-1670, this issue). From that gr...

and an accepted practice. The most recent estimates show that as many as 35 percent of married women aged 15–49 had experienced physical violence and 10 percent had experienced sexual violence perpetrated by their current or former husband over the course of their married life (IIPS and Macro International, 2007). Policies and programmes have increasingly focused on preventing violence against ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incremental effect of weight gain above that recommended for term pregnancy (15 pounds) on postpartum weight retention at 1 year among obese women. METHODS In a retrospective cohort study, we identified 1,656 singleton gestations resulting in live births among obese women (body mass index at or above 30 kg/m) between January 2000 and December 2005 in Kaiser Permanent...

BACKGROUND Maternal characteristics such as age, parity, smoking status, pre-pregnancy weight and pregnancy weight gain have changed in many industrialized countries in recent years. Many of these changes have not been adequately described at a population level. The purpose of this study was to describe recent trends in selected maternal characteristics in Nova Scotia. METHODS Data from a pop...