Abstract Background Subfertility is a major problem in modern horse breeding. Especially, mares without clinical signs of reproductive diseases, known uterine pathogens and no evidence inflammation but not becoming pregnant after several breeding attempts are challenging for veterinarians. To obtain new insights into the cause these fertility problems aiming at improving diagnosis subfertile ma...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of endometriosis among other benign gynecologic diseases and to identify the characteristics of patients at increased risk of concomitant diagnosis before surgery MATERIAL AND METHOD A descriptive cross-sectional study of331 women with benign gynecologic diseases who underwent surgery in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty ofMedicine Siri...

background: abnormal uterine bleeding is a common presentation of uterine abnormalities among premenopausal and postmenopausal women. objective: to evaluate and compare the diagnostic accuracy of saline contrast sonohysterography and hysteroscopy for detecting the cause of abnormal uterine bleeding. materials and methods: a total of 65 women with abnormal uterine bleeding were enrolled in this ...

BACKGROUND Information is limited regarding the multifunctional role of GnRH agonist (GnRHa) therapy in reproductive diseases. We investigated the pattern of changes in inflammatory reaction, micro-vessel density and apoptosis in the tissues collected from women with endometriosis, adenomyosis and uterine myoma who were treated with or without GnRHa therapy. METHODS Biopsy specimens were coll...

INTRODUCTION Uterine rupture is an obstetric complication associated with significant maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. This disorder usually occurs with a scarred uterus, especially in a uterus with prior Cesarean section. Uterine sacculation or diverticulum may also lead to a thin uterine wall during pregnancy. CASE PRESENTATION A 27-year-old Japanese primigravid woman was admitte...

S100 proteins belong to the EF-hand Ca(2+ )-binding protein family and regulate a variety of cellular processes via interaction with different target proteins. Several diseases, including cancer and melanoma, are related to the abnormal expression of S100 proteins, which are expressed in cell- and tissue-specific manners. We investigated the expression of S100 family members in human uterine sm...