Sociodemographic profiles and use-dynamics of Jadelle (levonorgestrel) implants in Jos, Nigeria.

Background: Contraceptive implants (including Jadelle) are highly effective, safe, and easy to use and have a long duration of action. They do not interfere with intercourse with immediate return to fertility after removal. However, disruption of the menstrual bleeding pattern is almost inevitable and coercive prescription may be a problem because insertion and removal of implants are provider dependent.

Urinary diversion for patients with inoperable obstetric vesicovaginal fistula: the Jos, Nigeria experience.

Introduction: Repair of obstetric urinary fistula may result in successful fistula closure, but often incontinence persists. Our goal was to review our experience with continent urinary diversion in our patients with inoperable vesicovaginal fistula (VVF).

Methods: The database of patients who underwent urinary diversion at ECWA Evangel VVF Centre in Jos, Nigeria, between 1996 and 2012, was reviewed.

Secondary brain choriocarcinoma: a case report.

Choriocarcinoma metastasizes widely. One in every ten choriocarcinoma that leaves its primary site, metastasizes to the brain. This 27 years old patient presented with symptoms of space occupying lesion that was confirmed by CT-SCAN.

BODY WEIGHT CHANGES IN WOMEN USING IMPLANON IN JOS, NIGERIA.

Background: The fear of weight gain is one of the adverse events that make women to discontinue Implanon® (etonorgestrel) contraceptive. Black women are more prone to gain weight with the use of such progestogen-only contraceptives than women of other racial groups. The weight of women is also an important consideration since it influences the concentration of the active drug and may predispose to failure at a higher weight profile.

Vaginal hysterectomy at jos university teaching hospital, jos, Nigeria.

Background: Hysterectomy could be performed through the abdomen, via the vagina, as an open procedure or laparoscopically. The debate on whether the uterus should be removed vaginally or abdominally was sparked off when Langenbeck first performed a successful vaginal hysterectomy in 1813. The superiority of the vaginal route was highlighted when women who underwent vaginal hysterectomy experienced significantly fewer complications when compared to the others who had abdominal hysterectomy.