Fertility and sterility
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Fertility and sterility · Jun 2010
ReviewThe role of patients' organizations in cross-border reproductive care.
This article provides an overview of cross-border reproductive care from a patient perspective. It outlines motives for seeking reproductive care outside patients' home countries or in other jurisdictions of their home country, describes the role of patients' organizations in general, and concludes by indicating potentials for collaboration between professionals' and patients' organizations.
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Fertility and sterility · Jun 2010
ReviewFertility preservation in women with breast cancer undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy: a systematic review.
To investigate methods of fertility preservation in younger women exposed to adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. ⋯ At present, there are no high-level, evidence-based recommendations for preservation of fertility or of ovarian function in women with breast cancer. This is an important issue for young breast cancer survivors, and further studies are needed. Moreover, the interplay between ovarian protection by GnRH agonists and the efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy remains elusive.
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Fertility and sterility · Jun 2010
Comparative Study Controlled Clinical TrialCerebral spinal fluid and serum ionized magnesium and calcium levels in preeclamptic women during administration of magnesium sulfate.
To study the distribution of ionized and total magnesium (Mg) in serum and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) in preeclamptic women receiving MgSO(4) and how this treatment affects the ionized calcium (Ca(2+)) and ionized Ca:Mg ratios compared with healthy nonpregnant women and pregnant control women (HP). ⋯ The data indicate that there is a direct relationship between the serum and CSF Ca(2+):Mg(2+) ratios in HP and this ratio may be crucial in preventing vascular and neurologic complications in preeclampsia-eclampsia.
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Fertility and sterility · Jun 2010
ReviewHysteroscopic tubal sterilization: a systematic review of the Essure system.
To update the evidence of the efficacy and safety of the Essure system. Female sterilization has undergone changes in the last decade. Besides laparoscopic tubal occlusion, the Essure system is now a viable option, with about 200,000 women sterilized using this method. ⋯ The Essure system appears to be safe, permanent, irreversible, and a less invasive method of contraception compared with laparoscopic sterilization.
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Fertility and sterility · Jun 2010
Comparative StudyCan specific pain symptoms help in the diagnosis of endometriosis? A cohort study of women with chronic pelvic pain.
To investigate whether different dimensions of chronic pelvic pain are useful in the diagnosis of endometriosis. ⋯ Women with endometriosis are more likely to report their pain as throbbing and experience dyschezia when compared with women with an apparently normal pelvis. These dimensions of pain may usefully contribute to the diagnostic picture.