Infertility knowledge and treatment beliefs among African American women in an urban community.

Background: To assess infertility knowledge and treatment beliefs among African American women in an urban community in Atlanta, Georgia.

Methods: This was a cross sectional study at a safety net hospital. A convenience sample of a total of 158 women receiving outpatient obstetrical or gynecologic care from March-April 2017 were recruited.

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist increases expression of osmotic response genes in leiomyoma cells.

Objective: To characterize hyperosmolarity-responsive genes in leiomyoma cells and determine whether gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist treatment altered their expression.

Design: Laboratory study.

Setting: University hospital.

Why leiomyomas are called fibroids: the central role of extracellular matrix in symptomatic women.

Uterine leiomyomas are highly prevalent and symptomatic tumors of women in their reproductive years. The morbidity caused by these tumors is directly related to increasing size. Leiomyoma cells do not rapidly proliferate; instead, the tumors grow primarily due to excessive production of disorganized extracellular matrix (ECM).

Use of F 18-fluoro-D-glucose-positron emission tomography-computed tomography to localize a hilar cell tumor of the ovary.

Objective: To describe provocative testing and alternative imaging strategies used to localize an androgen-producing tumor in a 58-year-old woman with severe hirsutism.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Clinical Research Center.

Will decreasing assisted reproduction technology costs improve utilization and outcomes among minority women?

Objective: To evaluate assisted reproduction technology (ART) usage and outcomes in minority women seeking care at enhanced access, military ART programs.

Design: Retrospective cohort.

Setting: Federal ART programs.

Recruitment and retention of women for clinical leiomyoma trials.

Background: Subject recruitment and retention in clinical leiomyoma trials is challenging. We evaluated strategies to increase patient enrollment and completion in leiomyoma trials.

Materials And Methods: Randomized trials for treatment of symptomatic leiomyoma published from 2000 through 2008 were evaluated and thirteen trials were selected.

A gastrointestinal stromal tumor in a patient with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A and metastatic medullary thyroid cancer to the ovaries.

Objective: To describe the first reported case of a patient with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A and a gastrointestinal stromal tumor, as well as the second reported case of metastatic medullary thyroid cancer to the ovary.

Methods: We present the clinical, imaging, surgical, and pathologic findings of the study patient and review the relevant literature.

Results: A 57-year-old woman with a clinical diagnosis of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A presented with a new mass in the right lower quadrant.

Ovarian response in women undergoing ovarian stimulation after myomectomy.

Objective: To examine ovarian response in infertile women undergoing ovarian stimulation after abdominal myomectomy.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Academic medical research center.