Current contraceptive awareness and use in Greek dental school students.

Aims: We conducted a pilot study in female dental school students in Northern Greece in order to assess their awareness and practice of contraception.

Methods: The study population consisted of 88 female graduating students of the dental school. A self-administered, anonymous questionnaire was designed to explore students' awareness and use of contraceptive methods.

A case of unilateral Horner's syndrome after combined spinal epidural anesthesia with ropivacaine 10mg/mL for cesarean section.

We report a case of transient unilateral Horner's syndrome during the setting of combined spinal epidural anesthesia for elective cesarean section using ropivacaine 10mg/mL. The pathophysiology of Horner's syndrome and the possible mechanisms in relation to combined spinal epidural anesthesia are also presented.

Early antiplatelet and antithrombotic therapy in patients with a history of recurrent miscarriages of known and unknown aetiology.

Objectives: To assess the efficacy of early thromboprophylaxis throughout pregnancy in women with previous history of first trimester recurrent miscarriages of unknown aetiology.

Methods: Low dose aspirin and low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) were administered from the day of detection of the fetal heart up to the 37th week, in two groups of patients of known (Group A, n = 24) and unknown aetiology recurrent miscarriages (Group B, n = 27).

Results: The success rate (viable pregnancy >24 weeks) was high and equally effective in both Groups A and B (83.

Asynchronous delivery of twins and triplets with an interval period ranging from 48 hours to 19 weeks.

Objective: To improve perinatal survival rates by prolonging the rest of the pregnancy after an abortion or extremely premature birth of one fetus in multiple pregnancies, especially in women with low fertility potential.

Methods: Following the expulsion of one fetus a cervical cerclage was applied to all patients. The placenta of the expelled fetus including a small portion of its cord after it was ligated close to the external os, was left in situ.

Pyriform head: a frequent but little-studied morphological abnormality of sperm.

This study was conducted to investigate the frequency of sperm with a pyriform head in semen samples, to determine the percentage of the occurrence of this abnormal sperm form, and to assess its possible correlation with other semen parameters. The study was designed as a retrospective data analysis in the setting of an andrology laboratory at a tertiary-care academic hospital. Semen quality data were analyzed from 114 subfertile men and 60 fertile men.