Low molecular weight heparin and external pneumatic compression are similarly effective in the postoperative prophylaxis of thromboembolism in gynecologic oncology patients.
Hormone replacement therapy is cost-effective for most postmenopausal women, but raloxifene is preferred for women with lifetime breast cancer risk of 15% or higher.
Parity is associated with urinary incontinence for women under 65 years of age, but is restricted to stress and mixed types.
Physician members of the American Urogynecologic Society were queried by means of a two-page questionnaire regarding the management of prolonged voiding dysfunction and urinary retention after anti-incontinence procedures.
Placental infection by coxsackie virus is associated with long-term developmental delays in the newborn.
Persistent occiput posterior position contributes disproportionately to operative delivery and anal sphincter injury but is not related to use of epidural analgesia.
The incidence of combined vaginal-cesarean delivery of twins is increasing, and it is associated with nonvertex second twin and prolonged delivery interval between twins.
Routine testing of hemoglobin and hematocrit at term is not needed for the uncomplicated, expected vaginal delivery if the patient is not anemic at 26–28 weeks.
Placentas of thrombophilic women with severe pregnancy complications have increased rates of single and multiple infarcts as well as of fibrinoid necrosis of decidual vessels.
Oral hormone therapy does not reduce the frequency of urinary tract infections, and risk factors in postmenopausal women differ from those in premenopausal women.
Transdermal hormone replacement therapy did not increase the size of uterine leiomyomas or affect the uterine bleeding patterns in postmenopausal women.
A rapid rate of caffeine metabolism, as measured by cytochrome P4501A2 phenotype, is associated with an increased risk of first-trimester normal karyotype spontaneous abortion.
Women with vulvar vestibulitis have an increased superficial blood flow and erythema in the posterior parts of the vestibular mucosa.
Cefazolin, like penicillin or ampicillin, is rapidly transferred from the maternal circulation to the fetus and amniotic fluid in concentrations that offer antimicrobial efficacy.
Preterm infants exposed to amniotic fluid bacteria and high tumor necrosis factor-a concentrations have more adverse neonatal outcomes than unexposed infants of similar birth weight.
Omission of the bladder flap at cesarean reduces operating time, blood loss, and postoperative pain.
Women with a diagnosis of congenital uterine anomaly have more adverse reproductive outcomes.
A policy of universal human immunodeficiency virus testing with patient notification and active refusal results in higher rates of human immunodeficiency virus testing in pregnancy.
Hemodynamically directed therapy in women at risk for preeclampsia is associated with a slower rise in tumor necrosis factor-a receptor 1 compared with low-risk women who are not treated.
High rates of chlamydial infection and unplanned pregnancy are found in a population of healthy, employed women with full access to health education and health care.
Difficult cases of fistulas communicating with bladder may be diagnosed by cystoscopic fistulography technique.
Most residencies in obstetrics and gynecology have maternity leave policies.
An assigned week of delivery is preferable to the estimated date of confinement.
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