Women and the Heart: Webcast April 16 2024.

This 62-minute webcast features a conversation about "Women and the Heart: Gender-Related Differences in Cardiovascular Care"-the focus of Issue 20.2. Led by the issue's editor, the discussion engages the authors on emerging themes and lessons learned while researching and writing the articles.

Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), women who have a systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mm Hg and/or a diastolic pressure ≥ 90 mm Hg before pregnancy or before 20 weeks of gestation have chronic hypertension. Up to 1.5% of women in their childbearing years have a diagnosis of chronic hypertension, and 16% of pregnant women develop hypertension during their pregnancy.

Safety and efficacy of ketamine-augmented electroconvulsive therapy in third trimester pregnancy complicated by COVID-19.

Major depressive disorder during pregnancy can be detrimental to the fetus and patient. Treatments can include electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for severe cases. The use of ketamine in ECT can provide symptomatic relief as well as induce anesthesia.

Non-16/18 high-risk HPV infection predicts disease persistence and progression in women with an initial interpretation of LSIL.

Background: The current management strategy for women with low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSILs) is inefficient and expensive because of the inability to identify patients at high risk for disease progression. The current study was designed to determine the genotypic patterns of human papillomavirus (HPV) associated with the persistence and progression of cervical lesions in women with an initial interpretation of LSIL.

Methods: One hundred sixty-seven women with LSIL on Papanicolaou tests collected between December 1, 2009 and March 30, 2011 were studied.

Factors associated with a lack of pap smear utilization in women exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol.

Background: Women in the 1940s-1960s were prescribed diethylstilbestrol (DES), a nonsteroidal estrogen, to prevent miscarriages, but the practice was terminated after it was discovered that the daughters so exposed in utero were at increased risk for developing clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA) of the vagina or cervix at early ages. Pap smear screening is one of the principal methods used to identify tumor development and is necessary in this group of women to maintain their health. Currently, little is known about the factors associated with nonutilization of this screening tool in this high-risk population of women.

Genotype-specific prevalence and distribution of human papillomavirus genotypes in underserved Latino women with abnormal Papanicolaou tests.

Introduction: Knowledge about the prevalence and distribution of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in cervical premalignant and malignant lesions is crucial to guide development of clinical management strategies and prophylactic vaccines. The aim of this study was to determine HPV genotype-specific prevalence and distribution in an underserved cohort of Latino women.

Materials And Methods: From December 2009 to April 2011, 808 SurePath cervicovaginal specimens were collected from women who were referred from charity clinics for abnormal Papanicolaou tests.

Postoperative small bowel obstruction associated with use of hemostatic agents.

A case of early postoperative small bowel obstruction (SBO) after intraoperative use of hemostatic agents during laparoscopic staging for endometrial cancer is reported. A 46-year-old woman underwent a laparoscopic staging procedure for endometrial cancer during which hemostatic agents were used in the management of an iatrogenic injury to the inferior vena cava. The patient returned on postoperative day 6 with SBO and was taken to the operating department.