[Prognostic value on recovery rates for the application of sperm preparation techniques and their evaluation in sperm function].

Objective: To evaluate sperm recovery and total sperm motility in three different sperm preparation techniques (density gradient, simple washing and swim-up).

Patients And Methods: A total of 290 subjects were randomly evaluated from November 2001 to March 2003. The density gradient method required Isolate (upper and lower layers).

Intestinal adhesion to the abdominal wall after skin closure with octylcyanoacrylate.

Octylcyanoacrylate tissue adhesive glue is a wound closure device recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

[Presacral neurectomy and uterine nerve ablation in chronic pelvic pain. Laparoscopic management. A comparative study].

Chronic pelvic pain is a difficult handling medical and surgical condition and of transcendent importance to women who suffer from it. This condition has been associated to different diseases as endometriosis, adenomiosis, adnexal mass, pelvic inflammatory disease, pelvic adhesive disease. The present study was carried out comparing two laparoscopic surgical methods in an randomized way; laparoscopic uterine nerve ablation and a presacral neurectomy, with 12 patients in each group and a follow up of 12 mont.

[Emergency cerclage:10 years experience at the ABC Hospital].

Objective: To evaluate the success of emergency cerclage procedures and neonatal outcome at the ABC Hospital.

Material And Methods: A retrospective analysis between January 1, 1991 and December 31, 2000 was carried out. Gestational age at the time of the procedure was recorded, as well as the average time in gestational weeks after the procedure, maternal complications and neonatal outcome.