Cryoconservation of Oocytes in a Patient with Breast Cancer and Intrauterine Early Pregnancy.

A 38-year-old patient newly diagnosed with invasive ductal breast cancer wished to cryoconserve her unfertilised oocytes. Stimulation was started on the 26th day of her menstrual cycle with daily administration of 300 IE hMG s. c.

Prospective assessment of malnutrition in urologic patients.

Objectives: The association between malnutrition and poor patient outcome has been established for different medical fields. There is a general lack of data on the prevalence of malnutrition in urologic patients. An assessment of malnutrition is needed to raise awareness of this condition and to initiate nutrition therapy if needed.

Clomiphene citrate as a possible cause of a psychotic reaction during infertility treatment.

Secondary side-effects often occur in women undergoing hormonal stimulation treatment with clomiphene citrate. In general 10.4% of women experience hot flushing, 5.

Study on the possible interaction between tenoxicam and atenolol in hypertensive patients.

Sixteen hypertensive male out-patients (33-54 y), whose blood pressure (BP) had been normalized (diastolic BP < 90 mmHg) by treatment with a daily dose of 50 mg atenolol (CAS 29122-68-7), participated in this double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group study, which investigated the possible influence of the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug tenoxicam (CAS 59804-37-4) on the control of BP by atenolol. After a run-in of 10 days, to assess the stability of BP control by atenolol, and to determine baseline parameters, 8 patients in group A received 20 mg tenoxicam (2 x 20 mg on days 1 and 2), and 8 patients in group B received placebo, daily over 15 days (days 0-14), concomitantly with their atenolol regimen. BP was measured under standardized conditions on several days.

The male IVF patient--psychosomatic considerations.

In order to study psychosomatic considerations of the male IVF patient, three issues were investigated. First, the personality traits of sterile males (n = 180) were recorded. Male IVF patients were found to have largely the same personality traits as the general population although they tended to have more dominant and retentive traits.