Non-immune foetal hydrops: a case report.

Foetal hydrops occurs when a certain amount of interstitial fluid, produced by capillary ultrafiltration, overcomes the amount of interstitial fluid that returns to the blood circulation through the lymphatic system. Hydrops is classified as immune (IH) due to the presence of circulating maternal antibodies against the foetal red blood cell's antigens, and non-immune (NIH) that includes all the other causes of hydrops. This classification is still valid, but only under a clinical point of view because they differ in aetiology and management.

Is it possible to predict postnatal depression? Research into the origin of blues and depression. The role of the gynaecologist.

Purpose Of Investigation: the authors investigated the role of the gynaecologist in trying to predict postnatal depression. Women suffering from postnatal depression (PND) are the expression of a failure to adapt to the unjust demands that society makes on them. Isolation and the lack of social support during and after the pregnancy are very strong factors of risk for postpartum depression.

Preparation for childbirth in different cultures.

Anthropologically childbirth is an enigma because every woman experiences an identical physiological and biological process, wherever the event takes place: from a hut in the jungle to a modern hospital in the United States. Differences are due to the way that pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period are treated. For most women in developing countries, being a woman means being a mother: a female is not a woman until she has given birth to a child.

Transcervical hysteroscopic myomectomy: long-term effects on abnormal uterine bleeding.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of hysteroscopic myomectomy in the treatment of symptomatic submucous leiomyomas and long-term outcomes.

Study Design: A total of 107 patients with abnormal uterine bleeding (n = 84) and/or infertility (n = 23) were submitted to hysteroscopic resection.

Main Outcome Measures: control of menorrhagia and reproductive outcome.

Antiestrogenic therapy in breast cancer and endometrial modifications.

The aim of this retrospective study was to detect endometrial lesions in tamoxifen breast cancer users (menopausal state related). The meaning of genital bleeding during the treatment and the actual incidence of benign and malignant pathology of the endometrium related to length of treatment was also evaluated. Tamoxifen (TMX) is a nonsteroidal triphenylene derivate with clear antiestrogenic properties on the breast which is used as adjuvant treatment for breast cancer; potential adverse effects include endometrial lesions.