The long-term effects of the Holocaust on the reproductive function of female survivors.

Study Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of internment in the German concentration camps during World War II on menstrual function; future fertility; and, ultimately, on gynecologic diseases or future surgery needs.

Subjects: Five hundred eighty Hungarian female survivors of concentration camps.

Intervention: Menstrual and reproductive histories of the women were obtained and analyzed, comparing histories and events from pre-internment, internment, and post-internment periods of time.

Intercontinental videoconference between US and Hungarian obstetricians: a 30-month study.

Over 30 months, 19 videoconferences were held between the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Semmelweis University in Budapest. Videoconferences used ISDN transmission at 384 kbit/s. In the main part of each videoconference a US expert presented various clinical topics.