Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-1353/1510025
Are Synthetic Slings for Stress Urinary Incontinence Safe?
Bela Kudish and Alexander Geoffrey Anderson
Article Type: Commentary | First Published: June 27, 2016
Urinary incontinence affects millions of women worldwide and is as common as hypertension, depression, or diabetes, with the prevalence estimated between 10 and 77%. The urinary incontinence rates vary by race or ethnicity and by age. Among the various types of urinary incontinence, bothersome stress urinary incontinence is reported to occur in 15% of women, arising commonly after a vaginal delivery, with urge urinary incontinence/overactive bladder disease found in 11% and mixed urinary inconti...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-1353/1510023
Stealth Embolics for Uterine Fibroid Embolization
Alexandre Laurent, Laurence Moine, Laurent Bedouet and Michel Wassef
Article Type: Short Review | First Published: June 15, 2016
Once fibroid ischemia is achieved by the blockade of the uterine arteries with particles, there is no longer the need for these particles which act as permanent foreign bodies in the uterus. They generate inflammation and will compromise the physiological adaptation of the uterine arteries during pregnancy. After having played their role, the particles have to disappear. The time for resorbable biomaterials has come. Promising degradable microspheres are being developed from various biomaterials...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-1353/1510022
A Pragmatic Approach to Hormonal Testing in the Assessment of Disorders of Female Reproduction
Robert L Reid and Bryden A Magee
Article Type: Review Article | First Published: June 04, 2016
When approaching a female patient with concerns about her reproductive health, it is important to first consider how a given hormonal test will guide diagnosis, impact treatment or define prognosis. Sometimes, the interpretation of hormone levels can cloud the clinical diagnosis. Careful consideration of the value and limitations of each test helps to streamline the path to diagnosis and the cost to the healthcare system. We review the utility of various hormone tests in the context of two cases...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-1353/1510021
Women's Risk of Food Insecurity
Tanya Lawlis and Maggie Jamieson
Article Type: Short Commentary | First Published: June 02, 2016
Women are at high risk of becoming food insecure. While emergency food relief assistance is available, an underlying clientele culture and stigma combined with entrenched societal power inequality and gender role identification create barriers for women to access safe and nutritious food. This commentary aims to discuss this issue and provide suggestions on what needs to be done to ensure that those at highest vulnerability are food secure....
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-1353/1510019
Diffuse Adenomyosis Treated by Laparoscopic Conservative Surgery: A Case Report
Mauro Monteiro de Aguiar, Helena Juliana Nagy, Marianna Fernandes Miranda, Karina Sampaio Cavalcanti and Lorena Jackson
Article Type: Case Report | First Published: May 18, 2016
Adenomyosis consists in a benign gynecological condition that is characterized histologically by the presence of ectopic endometrial tissue in the myometrium. Clinically, it is characterized by dysmenorrhea and menorrhagia, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain and even infertility. The failure of clinical treatment requires hysterectomy. However, conservative surgery has been proposed as a feasible and safe option for treatment of adenomyosis, when dealing with young patients, in order to preserve t...