Reproduction as a window to future health in women.

Cultivating awareness for reproduction as a window to future health presents an opportunity for early identification and modification of risk factors that can affect both individual and population-level morbidity and mortality. Infertility could serve as both a window into future health as well as a pathway to future pathology. The underlying mechanisms of infertility may share common pathways with long-term risk for health and well-being.

Racial and ethnic disparities in the surgical management of tubal ectopic pregnancy.

Objective: To evaluate racial and ethnic disparities in the surgical management of ectopic pregnancy over time.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: None.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the perception of planned oocyte cryopreservation in the United States.

Objective: To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on attitudes toward planned oocyte cryopreservation (OC).

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Internet-based survey questionnaire distributed nationally.

Surgical uterine evacuation in patients with two cervices: a case series.

Objectives: To describe the clinical circumstances, surgical approach, intraoperative challenges, and outcomes of patients with two cervices undergoing uterine evacuation for spontaneous, incomplete, or induced abortion at our institution.

Study Design: We used diagnostic and procedure codes related to uterine anomalies and uterine evacuation to identify patients with cervical duplication who underwent uterine evacuation at Penn Medicine from January 2008 to December 2020.

Results: We identified 15 patients with cervical duplication in whom we performed uterine evacuations during 19 pregnancies.