OBJECTIVES Our primary aim was to assess how patients' characteristics, bleeding pattern, sonographic endometrial thickness (ET) and additional features at unenhanced ultrasound examination (UTVS) and at fluid instillation sonography (FIS) contribute to the diagnosis of intracavitary uterine pathology in women presenting with abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB). We further aimed to report the preva...

PIWI proteins play essential roles in germ cells and stem cell lineages. In Drosophila, Piwi is required in somatic niche cells and germline stem cells (GSCs) to support GSC self-renewal and differentiation. Whether and how other PIWI proteins are involved in GSC biology remains unknown. Here, we show that Aubergine (Aub), another PIWI protein, is intrinsically required in GSCs for their self-r...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate three public Arabic speech corpora, namely the West Point (WP), Saudi Accented Arabic Voice Bank (SAAVB) and the BBN Technologies/American University at Beirut (BBN/AUB) corpus by referring the TIMIT English speech corpus as benchmark. Weaknesses, strengths, and discrepancies of these Arabic corpora regarding their design and content are covered in this pape...

Background: According to age, history and physical examination findings, there are different diagnoses including anatomic lesions for abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB). In these conditions, hysteroscopy can be performed as a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure. Objective: The aim of this study was defining the diagnostic value of hysteroscopy in evaluating uterine cavity in patients with AUB com...

OBJECTIVES Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) interferes with physical, emotional, and social well-being, impacting the quality of life of more than 10 million women in the USA. Hysterectomy, the most common surgical treatment of AUB, has significant morbidity, low mortality, long recovery, and high associated health care costs. Global endometrial ablation (GEA) provides a surgical alternative wit...

INTRODUCTION The Balint seminar is used in many family medicine residencies to improve and strengthen the patient-doctor relationship: to make better doctors. Given the lack of Balint leaders in developing countries, the family medicine department at the American University of Beirut (AUB) decided to collaborate with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)-with more than 30 years of exp...

PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) silence transposable elements in animal germ cells. In Drosophila ovaries, piRNAs are produced by two distinct pathways: the "ping-pong" amplification cycle that operates in germ cells and a ping-pong-independent pathway termed the primary pathway that mainly operates in somatic cells. AGO3, one of three PIWI proteins in flies, is involved in the ping-pong cycle i...

INTRODUCTION Adenomyosis is one of the most common, yet underdiagnosed, underlying causes of abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB). We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of adenomyosis among subjects who underwent hysterectomy due to AUB. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied the pathological specimens from 100 cases of AUB who underwent hysterectomy and were referred to Jundishapur University of Medical ...

Background: AUB is one of the most common problems in women of all ages especially those in the peri-menopausal age group. The abnormal bleeding can be caused by a wide variety of disorders and it is one of the commonest complaints leading to endometrial sampling. Objectives: Our study aimed at determining the types and frequencies of endometrial pathologies in patients presenting with abnormal...