BACKGROUND Leucorrhea or vaginal discharge is a conventional complaint. It is generally whitish, yellowish, or greenish vaginal discharge in females that might be normal or a symptom of infection. It is almost mucus discharge, which exhibit exfoliation of vaginal epithelial cells due to estrogen influence on the vaginal mucosa. It is important to identify the differences between physiologic and...

Vulvo-vaginal symptoms are among the most common reasons that women seek health care; upward of 6 million physician office visits are made by women of all age ranges for vulvo-vaginal symptoms. Despite such staggering statistics, most clinicians are not adequately prepared to diagnose and treat chronic vulvo-vaginal symptoms. Overlapping clinical appearance, symptoms, and pathophysiology, compo...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Placental abruption, an ischemic placental disorder, complicates about 1 in 100 pregnancies, and is an important cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Metabolomics holds promise for improving the phenotyping, prediction and understanding of pathophysiologic mechanisms of complex clinical disorders including abruption. We sought to evaluate mat...

A 55-year-old gravida 4, para 2022 Caucasian woman was referred for evaluation and management of chronic recurrent vulvovaginitis. The patient reported approximately five years of vaginal symptoms consisting primarily of ‘burning’ and ‘itching’, with ‘outbreaks’ occurring every 1–3 months. She had been treated, in response to symptoms and culture results, with a variety of systemic and topical ...

the main objective of this study is to find the prevalence, level of knowledge, and mode of transmission of reproductive tract infection (rti)/sexually transmitted infection (sti) among evermarried females in uttar pradesh. to study the various socio-economic and demographic factors responsible for rti/sti among married females. this study is based on data extracted from district level health s...

objective: medically unexplained symptoms are physical symptoms, which cannot be explained by organic ‎causes. this study aimed to investigate mental health in patients with medically unexplained ‎physical symptoms. ‎ method: one hundred outpatients who were admitted to the electro diagnosis clinic of imam khomeini ‎hospital, ahvaz/iran, participated in this study. data were collected using phy...

context worldwide prevalence of respiratory diseases, suffering from such diseases, and heavy cost of treatment, which all may result from lack of etiological understanding of these diseases in modern medicine, were the main factors to conduct the current study. in the present study, the causes and symptoms of asthma were evaluated and compared with those of some other respiratory diseases. ira...

introduction : although oral cancer is amenable for early detection, it often presents as advanced disease in many of patients. long-lasting ulcer or mucosal discoloration has been described as the key to an early diagnosis; however other symptoms may also exist. the present study aims to describe the frequency of the early symptoms in oral cancer patients, with a special focus on pain. materia...

objective: the aim of the present study was to evaluate unstimulated salivary flow rate and oral symptoms in menopausal women. materials and methods: a total of 200 individuals including 100 women in their menopause (case group) and 100 men in the same age range (control group) participated in this analytic descriptive investigation. none of the patients were being treated for any systemic dise...

background: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) is one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal disorders which includes the majority section of general practitioners or gastroenterologists visits. the type or prevalence of clinical signs and symptoms of the syndrome may be different among males and females. we decided to assess and compare the frequency of different signs and symptoms of ibs in men a...