A Comprehensive Review of Incorporating Steel Fibers of Waste Tires in Cement Composites and Its Applications.

Accumulating vast amounts of pollutants drives modern civilization toward sustainable development. Construction waste is one of the prominent issues impeding progress toward net-zero. Pollutants must be utilized in constructing civil engineering structures for a green ecosystem.

Incidental occurrence of high grade serous tubal adenocarcinoma after prophylactic adnexectomy in benign gynecological surgery.

Objective: Describtion of the case of incidental occurence of high grade serous tubal adenocarcinoma.

Design: Case study.

Setting: II.

Successful ablation of acardiac twin with Histoacryl.

Objective: Acardiac twin occurs in 1:35,000 pregnancies. Several techniques have been described to treat this condition. Some techniques have been suggested as golden standard; however, new are still being tried.

Long term follow-up of the patients with pelvic organ prolapse after the mesh implantation using strict indication criteria.

Objectives: Transvaginal polypropylene mesh implantation is one of the techniques used for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) repair. The surgery outcomes depend on the indication criteria used. The aim of our study was to evaluate the outcomes of the mesh implantation using the strict indication criteria.

Amniopatch - possibility of successful treatment of spontaneous previable rupture of membranes in the second trimester of pregnancy by transabdominal intraamiotic application of platelets and cryoprecipitate.

Objective: To outline possibility of successful treatment of spontaneous previable rupture of membranes in the second trimester of pregnancy.

Introduction: Spontaneous previable rupture of membranes (SPROM) in the second trimester of pregnancy is one of the most alarming problems in current obstetrics. Perinatal mortality is about 60 %, one third of which represents intrauterine fetal demise.

Implants in operative therapy in women with pelvic organ prolapse--two years of experience.

Objectives: The authors present their first experience with a new operative method (within two years' period in 18 patients) solving pelvic prolapse in women by means of installation of polypropylene (Prolene) mesh implant.

Materials And Methods: The authors corrected various forms and stages of POP, particularly prolapse of the vaginal stump after hysterectomy, through the installation of Prolene mesh implants or the systems Prolift Anterior, Prolift Posterior and Prolift Total.

Results: Short-term results (follow-up 24 months) are promising.

An alternative management for growth retarded fetus with absent end-diastolic velocity in umbilical artery and normal cardiotocography.

Objectives: Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is associated with fetal adverse conditions. The most important cause of growth restriction and poor perinatal outcome is chronic fetal hypoxemia (CFH). Adaptation to CFH can be studied by Doppler velocity waveform on umbilical and fetal arteries and cardiotocography (CTG).

[Diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis using PCR in gynecology patients in Slovakia].

The authors examined using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) more than 2700 gynaecological patients for the presence of Ch. tracheomatis. The patients were mostly from Bratislava and surroundings.

[Changes in serum levels of lipid peroxidation products during labor and in the puerperium].

Objective: To determine the activity of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during labour by characterizing changes in maternal serum levels of lipid peroxidation end-products--MDA and lipofuscin during labour and the early post-partum period. We also tried to evaluate the relationship between levels of lipid peroxides and some clinical characteristics of labour.

Design: Prospective study.

[Immunologic parameters in women with threatened premature labor].

The authors examined some immunological indicators in a group of female patients with imminent premature delivery and compared them, using statistical methods, with findings in a control group. The objective was to find a possible predictive value of the investigated parameters for the diagnosis of subclinical intraamnial infection as the possible cause of so-called idiopathic premature delivery. In the immunoglobulin classes they did not find significant differences between the two groups.

[Evaluation of the analgesic effect of dolsin during labor].

The authors evaluate the analgetic action of 50 mg dolsin in parturient women during childbirth using a Slovak version of McGill's questionnaire on pain. The intensity of pain in women is evaluated before administration of dolsin and after its administration. The obtained data on the analgetic effect are compared with the total score of pain and individual components of pain by the paired t-test.