Surgical treatment of chronic hidradenitis suppurativa in the gluteal and perianal regions.

Introduction: Verneuil disease, or perianal hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), is a chronic suppurative disease with a tendency to develop sinus formation, fibrosis, and sclerosis, having a great impact on quality of life. HS affect the apocrine sweat glands or sebaceous glands and may arise in each of the regions where the apocrine glands are prominent: the axilla, breast aureole, umbilicus, perineum, groin, and buttocks. We present here moderate and extensive HS cases, with their respective treatment methods and outcomes.

Some aspects of perinatal and maternal mortality in Albania.

Objective: Evaluation of antenatal care, perinatal mortality, neonatal mortality, maternal mortality, number of births, the incidence of low birth weight infants in Albania.

Design Of The Study: Retrospective study.

Setting: Queen Geraldine University Hospital of Tirana, Albania.

Comparison between transvaginal sonography after diagnostic hysteroscopy and laparoscopic chromopertubation for the assessment of tubal patency in infertile women.

Purpose: Diagnostic hysteroscopy has become a well-established modality for evaluating the uterine cavity, but provides no information regarding tubal patency. The aim of the present study was to investigate the diagnostic value of transvaginal sonography (TVS), performed directly after diagnostic hysteroscopy, for assessing tubal patency in infertile women, and to compare the findings with those obtained by means of laparoscopic chromopertubation.

Methods: A total of 56 infertile patients were referred to our endoscopic unit for laparoscopic chromopertubation in the period from September 2008 to January 2010.