Although modern assisted reproduction techniques is helping to overcome severe male factor infertility, conventional treatment modalities are still the first approach to male fertility disorders. The critical step in treating male infertility is to evaluate properly every male partner of an infertile couple and to generate the suitable treatment strategy. Specific medical management of infertil...

The treatment of adenomyosis has been limited by the difficulty and delay associated with the diagnosis, often not until after hysterectomy. Magnetic resonance imaging, high resolution vaginal ultrasound and uterine biopsy have improved early detection of adenomyosis. Drug therapy may be effective in controlling symptoms but the frequent coexistence of endometriosis and the lack of controlled s...

The most common agents that are responsible for intraoperative anaphylaxis are muscle relaxants. However, latex accounts for a significant number of these reactions, and the incidence of intraoperative anaphylaxis caused by latex is increasing. It is now probably the second most important cause of intraoperative anaphylaxis. Following muscle relaxants and latex are probably antibiotics and anes...

Keratomycosis is a major cause ofvisual disability in developing countries(1). It is common in our country because of the tropical climate and a large agrarian population at risk. Since the first report ofkeratomycosis. by Professor Theodor Leber, fungi have been increasingly implicated in the cause ofcorneal ulcer (2,3), there has been a dramatic rise in frequency of these infections in the la...

James Scozzafava1,2, Muhammad Shazam Hussain3 and Seby John4 1Department of Adult Critical Care Medicine, Saskatoon Health Region, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2Division of Stroke Neurology, Neurosciences Program, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 3Medical Director, Primary Stroke Center, Vascular Neurology and Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology, Cerebrovascular Section...

Myasthenia gravis is usually defined as a chronic disease of the neuromuscular junction that has a disputed etiology . It is characterized by weakness and variable fatigue of voluntary muscles, symptoms that gradually are alleviated with rest. There is a predilection for ocular and other cranial muscles including those that control facial expression, swallowing, phonation and respiratory functi...