Gestational Weight Gain in Pregnancies Following Bariatric Surgery.

Introduction: To compare the gestational weight gain (GWG) between women with previous bariatric surgery and those without and investigate whether GWG correlates with birthweight (BW) or delivery of a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonate.

Materials And Methods: Prospective, longitudinal study, include 100 pregnant women with previous bariatric surgery and 100 without weight loss surgery, but with similar early-pregnancy body mass index (BMI). In a sub-study, 50 of the post-bariatric women were also matched to 50 women without surgery, but early-pregnancy BMI similar to the pre-surgery BMI of the post-bariatric ones.

Managing growing teratoma syndrome: new insights and clinical applications.

Although a recognized condition, growing teratoma syndrome (GTS) has no guidelines for management, and patients diagnosed with the condition are managed empirically by the most appropriate teams. We report a case of GTS in a 33-year-old patient who was initially treated with unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and subsequent chemotherapy for a germ cell ovarian tumor. GTS was subsequently diagnosed with massive pelvic and upper abdominal masses as well as lung tumors.

Metabolomic biomarkers of impaired glucose tolerance and type 2 diabetes mellitus with a potential for risk stratification in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

There is a need to identify biomarkers of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) risk in women with PCOS to facilitate screening and the development of novel strategies to prevent disease progression. Metabolomic technologies may address this need. All published studies on metabolomic biomarkers of IGT and/or T2DM identified through MEDLINE (1966-December 2010), EMBASE (1980-December 2010) and Cochrane (1993-December 2010) were retrieved.