Introduction. Postcoital cystitis is a special form of recurrent cystitis. Against the background this disease, especially with an aggressive course, daily activity patients may change, quality life deteriorate, and sexual dysfunction develop. Aim. Study prevalence in postcoital cystitis, as well to assess their life. Material methods. The study compared two groups patients: main (first group) ...

The review1 on ‘Progesterone receptor modulators in gynaecological practice’ in the April 2010 issue of the Journal is a valuable contribution to the available literature on a currently important subject. In the section on ‘Contraception’ the authors have dealt at length with mifepristone. Since the latter is not licensed for postcoital contraception, it would have been appreciated if the autho...

Postcoital artery dissection is a rare condition. Here we report a 40-year-old male patient with painful Horner syndrome related to postcoital internal carotid artery (ICA) dissection. In neurologic examination of the patient, semiptosis, enophthalmus, and myosis were observed on the left side. There were no carotid bruits. On T1-weighted and fat-suppressed cranial MRI, hyperintensity consisten...

This study was to determine the risk of finding significant cervical pathological abnormality in women referred to the colposcopy clinic primarily because of postcoital bleeding. We evaluated the cervical smear history of such women and correlated this with any colposcopic or pathological abnormality. There were 142 women seen over a period of 12 months. The age range of the study population wa...

INTRODUCTION While problems related to desire, arousal, and orgasm have been subject to extensive epidemiologic research, women's postcoital reactions and feelings, and postcoital dysphoria (PCD) remains under-researched. AIM The study examined the association between women's attachment anxiety and avoidance, differentiation of self, and the experience of PCD symptoms. METHODS Two hundred a...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the impact of the postcoital test on the pregnancy rate among subfertile couples and on the number of other diagnostic tests and treatments. DESIGN Randomised controlled study. SETTING A university and two non-university teaching hospitals in the Netherlands. SUBJECTS New couples at infertility clinics, 1 March 1993 to 1 October 1995; randomisation to an interven...

In 1996-1998, the authors measured prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in vaginal fluid to assess the frequency of female condom failure and to evaluate the association of self-reported failure with semen exposure. Women at low risk of sexually transmitted diseases (n = 210) were recruited in Birmingham, Alabama. They were trained to use the female condom, sample vaginal fluid before and after cond...