background: cassia italica or senna is a wild plant distributed in south of iran. it increased water consumption and has a laxative effect. in traditional medicine this plant has been used for the dysmenorrheal. objective: in this study we investigated the effect of aqueous extract of cassia italica on uterus contraction. materials and methods: virgin wistar rats 200-300g were purchased. after ...

congenital mullerian abnormalities, particularly the septate uterus, may result in recurrent abortion, premature labor and infertility. the purpose of this study is to report the surgical and reproductive outcome in two groups of patients who underwent hysteroscopic metroplasty (hmp). between aug. 1993 and march 1998,76 women underwent hmp in shiraz university of medical sciences' affiliat...

Abstract   Bicornuate uterus is class IV and septate uterus is class Vin uterine anomaly classification. Bicornuate uterus is almost always treated by laparotomy and metroplasty. But the treatment of choice for septate uterus is hysteroscopic metroplasty. Bicornuate- septate uterus which is described in this paper is a new class of uterine anomaly(between class IV & V). The advantages of hyster...

conclusions our study demonstrated that 3d tvs has a good efficacy and reliable agreement with hysteroscopy in diagnosis of uterine lesions among infertile women. therefore, it can decrease the number of diagnostic hysteroscopies. results totally, 153 women were recruited in the investigation. patients aged 30.78 ± 4.79 years in average and the duration of infertility was 4.2 ± 2.91 years among...

the effects of hydroalcoholic extract of peganum harmala seeds (eps) on spontaneous rhythmic contractions of isolated rat uterine was investigated in this study. eps was tested on the isolated uterus and endometrium free (i.e. stripped myometrium) preparations. eps was found to exhibit significant spontaneous contractions of the uterus and stripped myometrium relative to the solvent control. af...

perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (pecoma) is composed of hmb45+ epithelioid cells with clear to granular cytoplasm and perivascular distribution. we describe a uterine pecoma in a 33 years old woman where tumor cells were positive for hmb45 but negative for epithelial markers and negative or positive for smooth muscles markers.

a 6-year-old lactating holstein cow with a history of repeat breeding syndrome (failed to conceive afterthree artificial inseminations (ai) with fertile semen) was referred to the veterinary teaching hospital of theschool of veterinary medicine, shiraz university. according to the history, neither abnormal clinical signs,nor uterine discharge had been observed subsequent to ai. the cow had show...

the purpose of this study was to determine whether sectioning the cervical septum is associated with intraoperative bleeding, incompetent cervix, and secondary infertility. in this prospective observational study, fourteen women with complete septate uterus who had a history of repeated pregnancy loss and infertility were treated hysteroscopically. preoperative history included 35 pregnancies o...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate protective effects of melatonin on uterus and fallopian tube in female mice under treatment with nicotine. Materials and Methods: Adult Female mice were divided into four groups. Group A: control animals received normal saline, group B: were injected with nicotine 40 μg/kg. Group C:were injected with melatonin, 10 μg/ night. Group D:were injecte...

This review will focus on the main findings of our experiments that used B-mode and color-Doppler ultrasonography during the preovulatory period to study the morphological and blood flow/perfusion changes of the preovulatory follicle in mares. The topics to be addressed herein will be: ultrasonographic characteristics of the preovulatory follicle; B-mode echotextural changes of the follicle wal...