shoulder dystocia GJ Hofmeyr, CA Cluver a Effective Care Research Unit, Eastern Cape Department of Health, Universities of Witwatersrand and Fort Hare, South Africa b Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa Correspondence: CA Cluver, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital,...

Bromocriptine, the active ingredient of Parlodel is a specific dopamine receptor agonist available for use in clinical practice. It has been successfully used in the treatment of hyperprolactinemia with associated amenorrhea, galactorrhea and infertility; in the inhibition of postpartum lactation; acromegaly and in Parkinson's disease. Its role in obstetrics and gynaecology is strategic since i...

randomised studies of the widely used immunosuppressive regimens for treating sperm antibodies, though a study is now under way. No controlled trials of different methods of in vitro fertilisation have used childbirth as the end point. Thus the first advance must be to organise randomised controlled trials to test widely used treatments. In order to avoid the type II error large cohort sizes wi...

1 Third Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University General Hospital Attikon, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2 Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, University General Hospital Attikon, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 3 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tzaneio General Hospital, P...

1Centre for Research into Circulating Fetal Nucleic Acids, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Hong Kong, China; 2Department of Chemical Pathology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and 4Haemophilia Centre and Thrombosis Unit, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom; and 5Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The Chine...

Louise C Kenny professor, Anu Research Centre, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Cork, Cork University Maternity Hospital, Cork, Ireland [email protected] Lesley McCowan professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medical and Health Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Competing interests: None declared. Provenance and peer review: C...

Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Erfocentrum, Amersfoort, the Netherlands Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, VU University Medical C...

Unit for Human Reproduction, 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Division of Gynaecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine, University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lue...

Perineal infections are a common presenting complaint in women attending acutely to a gynaecology department. Specifically, Bartholin's abscesses can occur in approximately 2% of women. Conservative versus surgical approaches to manage these infections aims to reduce the need for hospital admission. We summarise the literature on the diagnosis and management of Bartholin's and other types of pe...

R.Pijnenborg1,3, C.Luyten1, L.Vercruysse1, J.C.Keith Jr2 and F.A.Van Assche1 1Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B3000 Leuven, Belgium, and 2Genetics Institute Inc., Cambridge Mass., USA 3To whom correspondence should be addressed at: Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Katholieke Univer...