Ischemic colitis in postmenopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy.

Background And Aim: Estrogen and progestins have established effects on the gastrointestinal tract and ischemic colitis was related in the past with certain regimens including both hormones. On this basis, we aimed to evaluate a group of postmenopausal women who presented with ischemic colitis after taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the last several months.

Method: Postmenopausal women taking conjugated estrogens, conjugated estrogens plus medroxyprogesterone acetate, 17beta-estradiol plus norethisterone and estradiol valerate plus norgestrel are included in the present study.

Treating intraepithelial lesions of the uterine cervix by laser CO2. Evaluation of the past, appraisal for the future.

Background And Objective: Carbon dioxide laser (CO2) has been widely used in the past for the treatment of squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) of the uterine cervix. We present our 10-year experience of using this modality while evaluating its current and future use.

Materials And Methods: From 1988 to 1998, 3,078 women were treated for an intraepithelial lesion of the uterine cervix (SIL) by laser CO2 either by vaporization or conization.

Postmenopausal uterine bleeding.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of the etiologic factors of postmenopausal uterine bleeding and the recurrence rate of uterine bleeding before total hysterectomy. Six hundred and twenty-eight patients (mean age 52.2) with postmenopausal uterine bleeding were studied.

Teenage pregnancy: comparison with two groups of older pregnant women.

To evaluate the risk of adolescent pregnancies, we examined three groups of primigravidae in a prospective study from 1987 to 1988. A special protocol for the evaluation and follow-up of adolescent pregnancies was made. The rate of adolescent pregnancies was found to be two times higher between the years 1985 and 1987-1988.