Applicability of fetal renal artery Doppler values in determining pregnancy outcome and type of delivery in idiopathic oligohydramnios and polyhydramnios pregnancies.

Aims: To investigate the relationship between fetal renal artery Doppler results and pregnancy outcomes in patients with idiopathic abnormal amniotic fluid indices.

Material And Method: A total of 110 patients without signs of fetal distress were included in the study: 31 idiopathic oligohydramnios and 29 idiopathic polyhydramnios pregnancies (study group) and 50 normal pregnancies (controls). Doppler investigation of the umbilical artery (UA), middle cerebral artery (MCA), fetal descendant thoracic aorta (DTA) and fetal renal artery (RA) was performed in all patients.

Chromosomal abnormalities in fetuses with ultrasonographically detected neural tube defects.

We analyzed the karyotype of fetuses with ultrasonographically detected neural tube defects (NTDs). In our study, we included a total of 194 fetuses with NTDs. We analyzed the type of NTD, the karyotype, maternal age, fetal gestational age at diagnosis, and fetal sex.

Immunolocalization of VEGF, VEGF receptors, EGF-R and Ki-67 in leiomyoma, cellular leiomyoma and leiomyosarcoma.

Angiogenic factors, such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), its receptors and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF-R), are involved in increased progression in many carcinomas. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of angiogenesis and immunolocalization of VEGF, its receptors, EGF-R and Ki 67 in leiomyomas and leiomyosarcomas using an indirect immunohistochemical method. Samples from patients with leiomyoma, cellular leiomyoma and cellular leiomyosarcoma (n=20 per group) were fixed in 10% formalin and processed using routine paraffin protocols.

Comparison of the long-term histopathologic and morphologic changes after endometrial rollerball ablation and resection: a prospective randomized trial.

Study Objective: To compare long-term histologic features of endometrial rollerball ablation versus resection.

Design: Randomized clinical trial (Canadian Task Force classification I).

Setting: Akdeniz University School of Medicine.

Voiding symptoms in pregnancy: an assessment with international prostate symptom score.

Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the voiding symptoms of pregnant women and to compare the symptoms amongst trimesters and controls by means of the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS).

Materials And Methods: Voiding symptoms of 256 pregnant and 230 non-pregnant healthy women hospitalized for other reasons were evaluated. Subjects who had a history of urological and neurological problems or previous pelvic surgery associated with urinary symptoms and those who had urinary tract infection were excluded from the study.

Comparison of the clinical efficacy and safety of flutamide versus flutamide plus an oral contraceptive in the treatment of hirsutism.

Objective: To compare the clinical, hormonal, biochemical and hemotological effects of flutamide versus flutamide plus an oral contraceptive (OC) in the treatment of hirsutism.

Patients: Eighty-four women with hirsutism were equally randomized to receive either flutamide or flutamide plus OC.

Design: Eighty-four women with hirsutism were recruited from patients presenting to our hospital.