Is depression associated with glucose tolerance abnormality in pregnant women? A cross-sectonal study.

This study aims to examine the association between glucose tolerance abnormality and depression and anxiety in pregnant women. One hundred and sixty-seven women with gestational ages ranging from 24 to 28 weeks were screened with the 50 g oral glucose challenge test. All participants were assessed with the Beck Depression Inventory and the Beck Anxiety Inventory.

Ovarian cancer during pregnancy.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical features, pregnancy outcome, and treatment of patients with ovarian cancer diagnosed during pregnancy.

Methods: The present study was a retrospective review of 11 cases of ovarian cancer detected during pregnancy. The women were treated and followed up at Selçuk University, Meram Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey, during 2006-2010.

Malignant Brenner tumor of the ovary: analysis of 13 cases.

Objective: Most Brenner tumors are benign, with only 1% being malignant. In this study we report on 13 cases with malignant Brenner tumor of the ovary and discuss the clinical, demographic and histologic features.

Method: Thirteen patients with malignant Brenner tumor of the ovary who were treated at Selçuk University Gynecology Department over a 6-year period from January 2004 to December 2010 were retrospectively analysed from hospital electronic medical records.

Are major depression and generalized anxiety disorder associated with intrauterine growth restriction in pregnant women? A case-control study.

Objective: This study examined the prevalence of major depression and generalized anxiety disorder in pregnant women with and without a diagnosis of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR).

Method: The study sample included 56 pregnant women with a diagnosis of IUGR and 92 control subjects. IUGR was determined by means of ultrasound assessment and was defined as estimated fetal weight, by ultrasound scan, which falls below the 10th percentile for the gestational age.

A new technique for the treatment of transverse vaginal septum by Foley catheter.

We report a new surgical technique for the management of transverse vaginal septum in a 13-year-old girl who presented with abdominal pain. Imaging techniques yielded hematocolpos. The patient and her family refused vaginal surgery in order to preserve hymenal integrity for sociocultural beliefs.

[Cardiac autonomic function and cardiac arrhythmias in patients with obstructive sleep apnea].

Objectives: We assessed the effect of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) on cardiac autonomic function with the parameters of heart rate variability (HRV) and heart rate turbulence (HRT) and investigated the frequency of cardiac arrhythmias in patients with OSAS.

Study Design: Seventy-six patients (27 women, 49 men; mean age 50.6±10.

Cotyledonoid dissecting leiomyoma of the uterus with intravascular growth in postmenopausal woman: a case presentation.

Cotyledonoid dissecting leiomyoma ("Sternberg tumor") is an unusual type of a benign uterine smooth-muscle tumor with a distinctive gross appearance. A 57-year-old woman (gravida 7, para 6), in menopause for 3 years, presented with a 3-4-year history of increased pelvic pain. The transvaginal ultrasound scan showed a 2.

Uterine smooth muscle tumors of uncertain malignant potential: a case presentation.

A 42-year-old virgin woman was admitted to our clinic with increasing menorrhagia and dysmenorrhea for several months. A pelvic ultrasound scan showed a 9 × 7 cm heterogeneous mass in the uterine cavity. Pelvic magnetic resonance imaging showed a large non-homogeneous tumor mass measuring 97 × 56 mm in the uterine cavity.