CO2 Flow Dynamics of Bladder Injury During Laparoscopy and the Effect of the Content of the Abdominal Viscera During Injury--Experimental Study.

Background: Despite the well-known and easily recognizable signs of bladder injury during laparoscopy, some injuries remain unnoticed. Intra-operative diagnosis of a urinary bladder injury provides the opportunity to repair and prevent later complications involving the formation of fistula, infection, ascites and impairment of renal function. Small and unrecognized bladder injuries increase the chance of morbidity and permanent organ dysfunctions.

A twin pregnancy provided with ICSI, an abortion of the first fetus at the 18th week and live birth of the second fetus at the end of the 36th week: a case report and literature review.

Objective: The aim of this report was to evaluate and present the fourth longest delay among twin and multiple pregnancies described in the literature.

Methods: How can we optimize the health of the remaining fetus or fetuses after spontaneous abortion of the first fetus in multiple pregnancies? By considering one of our cases, we try to answer that question in light of the published literature.

Results: In our case, the second fetus was born at the end of the 36th week after abortion of the first fetus at the beginning of the 18th week.

Effects of maternal left lateral position and rest on amniotic fluid index: a prospective clinical study.

Objective: To compare the effect of both maternal rest and activity on the amniotic fluid index (AFI).

Study Design: Power analysis indicated that in order to achieve 20 mm of increase in AFI with 90% of power at one side alpha of 0.01, we needed at least 51 women in each group.

Effects of modernisation and new population policies on reproductive health in Kars, Turkey.

Background: The 1983 Turkish Population Planning Act aimed at improving reproductive health outcomes. We examined the effects of the Act and of modernisation in a small, underdeveloped city and province, Kars.

Methods: Between June 2009 and January 2010, 576 parous women at a hospital in Kars participated in a study of reproductive histories and living standards.

The first case of Horn Kolb Syndrome in Turkey, diagnosed prenatally at the 23(rd) week of a pregnancy: A very rare and unusual case far from the original geography.

Background: The aim of this report was to evaluate and announce the first documented appearance of Horn Kolb syndrome in Turkey.

Case Report: Acheiropodia (Horn Kolb Syndrome) is the bilateral congenital amputation of the distal parts of the 4 extremities. It is an autosomal recessive developmental disorder.

First trimester diagnosis of parapagus diprosopus dibrachius dipus twins with cranirachischisis totalis by three-dimensional ultrasound.

Parapagus (laterally fused), diprosopus (two faces), dibrachius (two upper extremities), dipus (two lower extremities) conjoined twinning is extremely rare. The coexistence of anencephaly with a contiguous spinal defect (craniorachischisis totalis) makes the present case one of the rarest of the published cases. In our case, it was difficult to make the final diagnosis by two-dimensional abdominal and vaginal ultrasound.

Effects of the maternal position and rest on the fetal urine production rate: a prospective study conducted by 3-dimensional sonography using the rotational technique (virtual organ computer-aided analysis).

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the maternal left lateral decubitus position and rest on the fetal urine production rate.

Methods: Fifty-four pregnant women with a normal amniotic fluid volume who had a singleton pregnancy between 26 and 40 weeks' gestation were included in this prospective study. Exclusion criteria included rupture of membranes, intake of any food or liquid within the previous 4 hours, and maternal or fetal complications.

Lipid peroxidation in follicular fluid of women with polycystic ovary syndrome during assisted reproduction cycles.

Objective: To investigate the ovarian lipid peroxidation pattern in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Study Design: Twenty-six women with PCOS who underwent in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) cycles between January 1999 and November 2000 at the hospital IVF unit were included in the study. Seventeen regularly cycling women with male factors (oligospermia or azoospermia) were enrolled as the control group.