Publications by authors named "Catalina Diana Stanica"

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  • Stress urinary incontinence significantly impacts many women, prompting a review of surgical trends and outcomes related to treatment.
  • The study utilized network meta-analysis to compare the effectiveness and safety of common surgical procedures such as Burch surgery, midurethral sling, and pubovaginal sling.
  • Midurethral procedures are currently considered the gold standard, but the risk of serious complications highlights the need for better evaluation and individualized treatment plans for patients.
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Background: Hysterosalpingo-foam sonography (HyFoSy) has gained popularity in the last decades, as it represents a feasible, well-tolerated, and minimally invasive method of evaluation of tubal patency in cases of infertility. The purpose of this study was to communicate the technical tips and tricks based on our experience in performing HyFoSy, with the aim to improve the feasibility, to reduce the pain, and to evaluate pregnancy-obtaining rate after procedure.

Methods: Our observational study includes 672 patients from infertile couples who underwent HyFoSy for tubal patency evaluation.

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Sacrococcygeal teratomas (SCTs) are rare congenital tumors. With the improvement of diagnostic imaging methods and follow-up protocols in pregnancies, in utero detection of these tumors has increased. Despite these progresses, SCTs may present difficulties in establishing in utero diagnosis and subsequent management.

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Endometrial adenocarcinoma (ADK) is one of the most common uterine cancer and the fourth neoplasia mortality cause in women according to the literature data. ADK is encountered in the sixth decade of life, the mean age being 63 years. Only 2-5% of cases are found in women less than 40 years old.

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The prevalence of endometrial cancer among asymptomatic women is rather reduced also due to the absence of a cost-efficient test, as there are no ideal screening examinations for endometrial cancer. Several methods were proposed in medical practice to discover endometrial neoplasia at an early stage, among which: endometrial biopsy, endovaginal ultrasound, targeted biopsy hysteroscopy. This study was made on a group of 38 patients monitored for metrorrhagia in the interval between July 1, 2014-July 1, 2016.

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