[Is peritoneal endometriosis painful?].

Using a study of 306 coelioscopies as a basis, the authors try to define the relationship existing between the observation of lesions of peritoneal endometriosis and the symptom of pain. Certain observations raise the doubt of there being a cause/effect relationship (i.e.

[Age, gynecologic status and urinary stress incontinence].

Based on a series of 1,000 female patients examined in office practice, the authors of this study seek to define the incidence of USI according to the patient's age gynecological status. Concerning age, this factor only has a clear effect in patients over 35 years of age. No significant difference in the incidence of USI was observed between sexually active women over 35, women approaching the menopause or post menopausal women; for this reason, the authors believe that in these cases, USI is related more to concomitant factors than to trophic lesions which however certainly are also present.

[What lesions of the myometrium are responsible for hemorrhage?].

Based on a personal series of 54 cases of endo-uterine haemorrhage with normal endometrium, the authors show that lesions of the myometrium which may result in haemorrhages, consist mainly of interstitial or submucous myomas and adenomyosis, i.e. lesions on which medical treatments are ineffective.

[Menorrhagia, metrorrhagia and the endometrium. Apropos of 300 cases].

The authors report on the different aspects they have observed when they studied 300 case histories of patients who had a histological examination of the endometrium for menorrhagia or metrorrhagia. In 9.9% of the cases the endometrium was normal.

[Supraventricular tachycardia in utero. Apropos of a personal case, review of the literature].

After describing a case of early hydrops fetalis in a fetus demonstrating supraventricular tachycardia (TSVF) the authors review the literature: First they note the increase in the number of cases of TSVF published in the last few years, thanks to better means of monitoring pregnancies and to the place taken by TSVF among the different other troubles of fetal heart rhythm than can occur. The second section enumerates and analyses the pathological associations and the complications that have been observed in cases of TSVF that have been indexed. All have a poor prognosis: as far as those cases where there are faults in the rhythm which are associated with or alternate with TSVF, congestive heart failure occurs in 50% of cases, and organic heart pathological conditions in 20% of cases.