Rupture of the cervix during pregnancy after cervical pessary insertion for preventing preterm birth.

We present a rare case of a complication after pessary insertion during pregnancy due to short cervix. A woman in the 35th week of gestation was admitted to the Department of Perinatology due to preterm labor. The patient's history revealed cervical pessary insertion during the 29th week of pregnancy due to a cervix of 18 mm in length.

[Evaluation of cyclin E expression in endometrial hyperplasia and cancer in postmenopausal women].

Objectives: The aim of present study was to determine expression of cyclin E in endometrial hyperplasia without atypia, atypical endometrial hyperplasia and endometrial cancers in comparison with expression of cyclin E in atrophic endometrium of postmenopausal women. We have also estimated relationship between cyclin E expression and prognostic factors for endometrial cancer such as: histological type, cancer stage and histological grade.

Material And Methods: 154 women were enrolled into study Women were divided into 4 groups.

Association between maternal and fetal TLR4 (896A>G, 1196C>T) gene polymorphisms and the risk of pre-term birth in the Polish population.

Problem: Bacteria activates Toll-like receptor 4 on immune system cells leading to preterm birth (PTB). The aim of study was to evaluate the impact of maternal and fetal carriage of TLR4 gene polymorphisms on the risk of PTB.

Method Of Study: Frequency of TLR4 (896A>G, 1196C>T) variants was determined in 121 women who delivered preterm, 152 women who delivered at term, 49 term newborns and 35 preterm newborns with the use of PCR-RFLP.

IL-1β, IL-6 promoter, TNF-α promoter and IL-1RA gene polymorphisms and the risk of preterm delivery due to preterm premature rupture of membranes in a population of Polish women.

Introduction: Our previous study revealed that anti-inflammatory cytokine gene polymorphisms increase the risk of spontaneous preterm delivery (PD) in a population of Polish women. Different genetic background of PD due to preterm premature rupture of membranes (pPROM) than PD without pPROM has been suggested. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between the maternal carriage of polymorphic alleles of the following genes: interleukin 1β(IL-1β [+3953C>T]), interleukin 6 promoter (IL-6 [-174G>C]), tumour necrosis factor promoter (TNF-α [-308G>A]) and interleukin 1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RN) and the risk of PD caused exclusively by pPROM in a population of Polish women.

[Selected cytokine gene polymorphisms and the risk of preterm delivery in the population of Polish women].

Objective: Recent studies suggest that preterm delivery might be conditioned genetically. The main aim of this study was to examine the relationship between spontaneous preterm delivery (PTD) and the carriage of polymorphic genes that code the following cytokines: interleukin-1beta [IL1beta (+3953C>T)], interleukin-6 promoter [IL6 (-174G>C)], tumour necrosis factor-alpha promoter [TNFalpha (-308G>A)] and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1RN) in the population of Polish women.

Methods: A case-control study.