OBJECTIVE The objective was to review the obstetric performance of booked grand multiparae. DESIGN AND SETTING A 5-year prospective observational study of cases between January 1, 2002, and December 31, 2006, was conducted in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, a tertiary institution, in Kano, Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS The antenatal complications and pregnancy outcomes among booked grand mul...

Aim: To determine frequency of positive endometrial biopsies in pre and post menopausal patients with abnormal uterine bleeding for detection of endometrial carcinoma. Methods: This Cross-sectional study was conducted at Gynecological outpatient department Nishtar Hospital Multan from January 2013 to December 2013. Pre and post-menopausal women between 3570 years with abnormal uterine bleeding ...

Background: Malaria during pregnancy may affect the course adversely. The physiological changes of pregnancy and pathological changes due to malaria have a deleterious effect on each other. This trial was conducted to study the complications and outcome of malaria during pregnancy. Material & Methods: It was a prospective study carried out at District Headquarter Teaching Hospital, D.I.Khan, Pa...

Torsion of ovarian cyst is a common cause of acute abdomen especially in women of reproductive age-group. It commonly presents with colicky abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting. It could however mimic acute intestinal obstruction. The patient was a 32-year-old multipara with no previous history of pelvic or abdominal surgery. She was admitted with colicky lower abdominal pain asso...

An English multipara, aged 31 years, first attended the Special Clinic at St. Thomas' Hospital on April 13, 1961, with excessive vaginal discharge. She admitted only marital sexual intercourse. Urethral and cervical smears and cultures were negative and no trichomonads or monilia were found. A repeat examination on April 20, 1961, showed urethral and cervical smears still negative, but Trichomo...

Purpose: This study was conducted in order to determine anxiety, depression level and stress coping methods of pregnant women who have preterm labor risk. Method: Study, which was conducted in definitive and cross-sectional design, had its sample between 01 December 201230 December 2013 dates, 255 pregnant women who stay in a public hospital as a result of preterm labor risk diagnosis. Research...

Iatrogenic uterine perforation due to initial overinflation of the Kronner uterine manipulator balloon through the balloon port is previously unreported. A 37-year-old multipara with a 1 year history of dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, and post coital spotting desired permanent sterilization following 9 years of copper intrauterine device (IUD) use. At the onset of the procedure a Kronner uterine man...

Twenty-nine strains of 14 species of rumen bacteria were screened for their ability to hydrolyse Ala2, Ala5, GlyArg-4-methoxy-2-naphthylamide (GlyArg-MNA) and Leu-MNA. Several species, notably Megasphaera elsdenii, were active against Ala2, and a smaller number, including Bacteroides ruminicola, Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, Ruminococcus flavefaciens, Lachnospira multipara and Ruminobacter amyloph...

This case report concerns a pregnant multipara (age: 27 years) in the 16th gestational week. She developed a sudden onset of paraesthesia in her left lower arm although injecting dalteparin 5000 IU once daily subcutaneously (s. c.) due to a heterozygous factor V Leiden mutation and a prior miscarriage in the first pregnancy and preeclampsia in her third pregnancy. After the miscarriage she deli...

Objectives: To study the outcome of screening of cervical smears of women attending the Gynaecology OPD for detection of various pathological lesions of Uterine Cervix. Study Setting:Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at a Tertiary Care Hospital, Mumbai Study Design: Hospital based retrospective study Methodology: The retrospective study was conducted by using records of Gynaecology OPD patien...