Long-term estrogen therapy was associated with only minor reduction of carotid vascular resistance, so it is not likely a major mechanism in cardiovascular protective effects of estrogen therapy.
Estrogen in postmenopausal women possibly enhances lipid transfer reactions and hydrolysis of enriched low-density lipoprotein triglyceride by lipolytic enzymes, increasing small low-density lipoprotein particles.
Hypogonadism induced by GnRH agonist therapy leads to loss of lean mass and increased adiposity overall, especially in the upper body.
Topically applied heat was effective in treating primary dysmenorrhea.
Cesarean delivery at any stage of labor reduces the rate of postpartum urinary incontinence in women who were continent before pregnancy.
Women who work outside the home during late pregnancy had higher blood pressures when working than when not working.
Elevation of plasma adenosine might counteract enhanced platelet activation in women with preeclampsia.
Neutrophils are activated in preeclampsia, but systemic complement activation is not enhanced more than that in normal pregnancies.
Extra-amniotic prostaglandin E2 infusion is more rapid and effective than saline infusion for balloon cervical ripening, and has a higher rate of spontaneous, unaugmented labor.
Dose of oxytocin during labor is not a clinically useful predictor of uterine rupture during a trial of labor after cesarean.
Among women who delivered breech infants, the proportion delivering vaginally varied by hospital type and patient ethnicity.
In the absence of other risk factors, trial of labor after previous cesarean may proceed after 40 weeks' gestation.
Antiphospholipid antibodies clear spontaneously in some pregnancies treated with heparin; subsequent pregnancies among those women do not require treatment.
Cervical stroma cell apoptosis is increased in pregnancy and in labor compared with nonpregnant women.
Maternal serum levels of specific plasminogen activators and complexes are significantly higher with aneuploid than with euploid fetuses.
DNA quantification provides better prognostic information than traditional clinicopathologic factors in appropriately staged, early epithelial ovarian cancer.
Microsatellite instability is a molecular alteration associated with favorable outcome in endometrioid endometrial cancers, even when accounting for other prognostic factors.
Aspirin inhibits the growth of a human endometrial cancer cell line in vitro in a dose-dependent manner.
Cold-knife conization with clear margins was adequate for definitively treating cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade III.
Adjuvant hysterectomy decreases the total dose of etoposide needed to achieve primary remission in women with nonmetastatic low-risk gestational trophoblastic disease.
The radially expanding access device was associated with less postoperative wound pain and more patient satisfaction than conventional cutting-tip trocars.
Cesarean delivery increases the risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension, transient tachypnea, and respiratory distress syndrome in neonates.
Amniocentesis alone allows the diagnosis of cytomegalovirus fetal infection, but ultrasound examination and fetal blood sampling help identify fetuses at risk of severe sequelae.
Growth-restricted fetuses with abnormal diastolic flow in the umbilical artery are at significantly higher risk for deficiency in postnatal intellectual development.
Fetal heart rate overshoot during recurrent 1-minute cord occlusions is associated with fetal acidosis and hypotension in sheep.
Fetal DNA is present in the maternal circulation of first-trimester spontaneous abortions.
The most efficient method of diagnosing ectopic pregnancy is ultrasound followed by quantitative hCG measurement in cases in which ultrasound is nondiagnostic.
Intraamniotic digoxin injection before late second-trimester abortion by dilation and evacuation did not decrease procedure time, difficulty, or pain.
Two techniques are described for percutaneous laser treatment of twin–twin transfusion patients with anterior placentas.
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