Natural Pregnancy Seeking in Subfertile Women with Endometriosis.

Several pathogenetic mechanisms have been postulated to explain the association between endometriosis and subfertility. However, to date, definitive conclusions cannot be drawn. In this study, we hypothesized that the reduced exploitation of the natural chances of conception could be an additional detrimental factor.

Infertility-related distress and female sexual function during assisted reproduction.

Study Question: Is infertility-related distress a risk factor for impaired female sexual function in women undergoing assisted reproduction?

Summary Answer: Infertility-related distress, and especially social, sexual, and relationship concerns, is associated with female sexual dysfunction.

What Is Known Already: Women with infertility are more likely to present sexual dysfunction relative to those without infertility. Moreover, assisted reproduction is associated with increased risk for female sexual problems.

Case report of prenatal diagnosis of Stüve-Wiedemann Syndrome in a woman with another child affected too.

Objective: Stüve-Wiedemann Syndrome (SWS; MIM 601 559) is an autosomal-recessive syndrome characterized by myotonia with mask-like face, skeletal dysplasia and intrauterine growth restriction. Other clinical findings are pursed mouth, hypoplastic midface, congenital contractures and muscular hypotonia. We discuss about the importance of prenatal diagnosis in SWS and the possibility of survival after the first year of life in patients suffering from this disease.

[Indications and controindications of hormone replacement therapy in menopause].

Menopause is a physiological event of women's life that is the end of menstrual cycles and the end of the fertile period. Normally the age at which women reach menopause is between 50 and 52 years, as the world average. Menopause occurs when the functional ovarian reserve is exhausted or can be induced by surgical removal of the ovaries.