Gerard G. Nahum, MD I this issue, Drs. Samuels and Awonuga1 examine a case of uterine rupture associated with a second-trimester pregnancy within a congenital rudimentary uterine horn after administration of misoprostol. It is important because it emphasizes 1) the increased dangers associated with pregnancies that reside within congenital rudimentary uterine horns, 2) the importance of identif...

nitroglycerin has a relaxing effect on the smooth muscles of organs including uterus. this study investigates the effect of intravenous nitroglycerin in emergency cesarean sections in which rapid and transient uterine relaxation for rapid and nontraumatic extraction of the fetus is necessary. sixty pregnant women who were been candidates for emergency cesarean and needed rapid uterine relaxatio...

intrauterine device (iud), a conventional method of contraception is rarely associated with uterine perforation and extra uterine dislocation. a 29 years old woman complaining of vaginal bleeding was referred for pelvic mass identified in ultrasound. the mass was confirmed with ct scan. in laparatomy we found an iud in cul-de-sac and pelvic mass was apparently an organized hematoma. transmigrat...

background: mullerian disorders are present in 5-25% of infertile women. myoma, polyp and endometrial adhesions are among other involved factors in infertility. objective: the aim of this study was to determine the frequency distribution of pregnancy occurrence in infertile women after the diagnostic-surgical hysteroscopy on selected infertile cases including those with abnormal uterine. materi...

Labor is a physiological event involving a sequential, integrated set of changes within the myometrium, deciduas, and uterine cervix that occur gradually over a period of days to weeks. Biochemical connective tissue changes in the uterine cervix appear to precede uterine contractions and cervical dilation, and all of these events usually occur before rupture of the fetal membranes. In other wor...

fungal infection of uterine of dairy cattle have not been received much more attention. the aim of this study was: to investigate the uterine mycoflora of dairy cows with reproductive disorders or healthy. uterine sampling of 112 holstein dairy cows included 70 cows with reproductive disorders and 42 healthy cows were collected directly. samples were cultured in sabouraud glucose agar at 28°c f...

Lines of mice, selected for 21 generations using alternative criteria to increase litter size, were evaluated for uterine mass and uterine blood volume to help explain differences in uterine capacity. For this study, mice were sampled from Generation 27, the sixth generation after relaxation of selection. Mice came from all four criteria of selection (LS = selection on number born to unaltered ...