Objective Our goal was to gain a better understanding of the inflammatory pathways affected during localized vulvodynia, a poorly understood, common, and debilitating condition characterized by chronic pain of the…
Objective The objective of the study was to evaluate objective and subjective outcomes of MiniArc and Monarc (American Medical Systems, Minnetonka, MN) midurethral sling (MUS) in women with stress incontinence…
Objective Robotic gynecological surgery is feasible in obese patients, but there remain concerns about the safety of this approach because the positioning required for pelvic surgery can exacerbate obesity-related changes…
Hysterectomy by indication Hysterectomy is most commonly performed because of benign disease, such as fibroids, bleeding disorders, endometriosis, and uterine prolapse. In 2000–2004, hysterectomy caused by benign disease accounted for…
All pregnant women, regardless of age, should be offered screening or invasive testing for chromosomal abnormalities at <20 weeks’ gestation. Noninvasive prenatal screening for fetal aneuploidy with the use of…
We sought to evaluate the efficacy of maintenance tocolysis with 17-alpha-hydroxyprogesterone caproate (17P) compared to control (either placebo or no treatment) in singleton gestations with arrested preterm labor (PTL), in…
See related articles, pages 30 and 102 Cell-free fetal DNA testing has changed the face of prenatal screening for aneuploidy. Initially, this technology was tested in “high-risk” subjects, and was…
Chronic hypertension is present in up to 5% of pregnant women and constitutes a major cause of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this document is to…
Color Doppler of the circle of Willis and spectral Doppler waveform of the middle cerebral artery (normal and abnormal). The middle cerebral artery pulsatility index is part of the calculation of…
Our recent study entitled, “Expanding the scope of noninvasive prenatal testing: detection of fetal microdeletion syndromes” by Wapner et al, demonstrated that single-nucleotide polymorphism-based noninvasive prenatal testing had high sensitivity and…
