October 1, 2009
By:Lubna Pal, MBBS, MRCOG, MS
Beyond overt risks like obesity and diabetes, your patients with features of metabolic syndrome are at risk for more subtle problems--like infertility, pregnancy loss, and polycystic ovarian syndrome.
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October 1, 2009
By:Andrew I. Kaplan, Esq
During laparoscopic hysterectomy, injury to adjacent organs is a known complication. But the inability to explain the mechanism of surgery and the complications that occur postoperatively often make risks difficult to defend in court.
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July 15, 2009
Sumatriptan and naproxen used in combination delivered both 2-hour and sustained pain relief to women with dysmenorrhea who were suffering menstrual migraine headaches, according to a pair of studies reported in the July issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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May 1, 2009
By:Dawn Collins, JD
A woman undergoes a tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) procedure for stress urinary incontinence and inadvertently the bladder and urethra is injured.
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March 1, 2009
By:Jerry G. Ninia, MD
Venous reflux from pelvic sources is often overlooked when evaluating gynecologic patients, argues an advocate of the newer discipline of phlebology. Pay special attention, he urges to those patients having pelvic pain and chronic venous insufficiency in their legs.
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November 1, 2008
This analysis from the North American Menopause Society reviews OCs and a controversial form of estrogen/progesterone therapy.
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November 1, 2008
By 2006, more than 1 in 5 women with breast cancer being treated at the Mayo Clinic received preoperative MRI.
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November 1, 2008
By:Dawn Collins, JD
A woman underwent laparoscopic removal of a retained fibroid following a prior hysterctomy and removal of multiple fibroids.
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