Bone loss in young women with premature ovarian failure.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of premature ovarian failure on bone mineral density.

Materials And Methods: Forty-five women with karyotypically normal spontaneous premature ovarian failure underwent hip and spinal bone density measurements by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. Findings were compared with a control group of 61 women of similar age.

Reproductive outcome of women with unicornuate uterus.

This study was undertaken to examine the reproductive impact of unicornuate uterine abnormalities cases in a group of 571 women with a uterine anomaly. Hospital records of 1784 patients who presented to the infertility outpatient clinic with infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, pain or acute abdomen during the study period between January 1991 and January 2001, were reviewed retrospectively. The reproductive performance of women with unicornuate uterus was poor, with a live birth rate of only 29.

Septate uterus with a double cervix and longitudinal vaginal septum.

Objective: To report the clinical features of 9 cases and review the previously reported 8 cases of an uncommon müllerian anomaly, characterized by the presence of a complete uterine septum with cervical duplication and represent a a longitudinal vaginal septum.

Study Design: Retrospective clinical study.

Results: Nine patients aged 21-32 presented to our clinic with complaints of dyspareunia, dysmenorrhea, and primary or secondary infertility.