Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) arises from dysbiosis in the small intestine, manifesting with abdominal symptoms. This study aims to assess the efficacy of combined antibiotic therapy, herbal supplements, probiotics, and dietary modifications in SIBO management. A total of 179 SIBO-diagnosed patients underwent clinical evaluation and breath testing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Currently, women diagnosed with high-risk locally advanced cervical cancer are at high risk of recurrence after treatment with concurrent chemoradiation and represent a population with high unmet need.
Primary Objective: The primary objective is to evaluate the progression-free survival of high-risk locally advanced cervical cancer patients who have achieved a partial or complete response after chemoradiation after receiving dostarlimab as maintenance therapy.
Study Hypothesis: The study aims to demonstrate that the use of dostarlimab, as maintenance therapy, would significantly increase progression-free survival in these patients.
Despite optimal first-line treatment based on debulking surgery and platinum-paclitaxel chemotherapy, most of the patients with advanced ovarian cancer (AOC) will eventually relapse. Over the last decades, different strategies have been assessed to improve AOC patients' outcomes in the front-line treatment. However, first line treatment landscape of AOC had not undergone major changes until the last three years.
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October 2015
Biomasses are organic materials that are derived from any living or recently-living structure. Plenty of biomasses are produced nationwide. Biomasses are mostly combusted and usually discarded or disposed of without treatment as biomass ashes, which include wood and sugarcane bagasse ashes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLymphomas arising in the female genital tract are extremely uncommon. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and follicular lymphoma are the most common types. We describe the case of an 80-year-old woman with a recurrent lesion in the vulva initially diagnosed as a lymphoma-like lesion and evolving 7 years later into a marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mullerian duct anomalies are an uncommon but often a treatable cause of infertility.
Material And Methods: From January 2002 until November 2003, a total of 705 hysterosalpingographies were realised of which 658 were analysed retrospectively in order to determine the importance of uterine malformations in infertile and sterile patients. In ten cases, the results of hysterosalpingography were compared with hysteroscopy and laparoscopy.