Development of a French version of the Endometriosis Health Profile 5 (EHP-5): cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation.

Purpose: The Endometriosis Health Profile 5 (EHP-5) is a short version of an endometriosis-specific quality of life questionnaire. The objective of the study was to assess the psychometric validity of its French version.

Methods: A total of 125 patients with histologically proven endometriosis who underwent surgery for painful symptoms and 80 asymptomatic controls completed the EHP-5.

Bipolar hysteroscopic procedures and placement of Essure microinserts for tubal sterilization: a case control study.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness and complication rate with Essure microinsert placements for tubal sterilization and the concomitant bipolar intrauterine surgical procedure.

Design: Case control study.

Setting: Department of gynecology and obstetrics of a general hospital in France.

[Preliminary outcome of breast cancer located at the lower quadrant treated with a thoracomammary flap].

Conservative surgical treatment with wide local excision of lower pole breast carcinoma is a major factor of poor cosmetic results. We propose reconstruction of the inferior part of the breast using a fascio-cutaneous flap during excision of lower pole cancers, particularly in cases of women with small-sized breasts. In 2005, 14 patients were selected to undergo conservative breast surgery with fasciocutaneous flap taken from the fatty area found below the thoraco-mammary fold.

[Maternal-fetal transmission of HIV: preventive measures and prenatal care].

HIV can be transmitted to foetus during pregnancy, labour, and breastfeeding. An estimated 600,000 newborns acquired HIV each year through mother to fetus transmission. Without preventive interventions, approximately 25% of infants born to HIV positive mothers contract the virus.