Trends in Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy Techniques for Nonmalignant Conditions in a Defined Population.

Background: Minimally invasive surgical techniques are increasingly being used for performing hysterectomy. We assessed changes in surgical techniques for hysterectomy that happened during the last decade among the complete Icelandic population.

Methods: Databases in all hospitals in the country were searched to identify all women undergoing hysterectomy during the years 2001-2010 inclusive.

Polycystic ovary morphology: age-based ultrasound criteria.

Objective: To determine age-based criteria for polycystic ovary morphology.

Design: Cross-sectional, case-control design.

Setting: Outpatient setting.

Yes we can! Successful examples of disallowing 'conscientious objection' in reproductive health care.

Reproductive health care is the only field in medicine where health care professionals (HCPs) are allowed to limit a patient's access to a legal medical treatment - usually abortion or contraception - by citing their 'freedom of conscience.' However, the authors' position is that 'conscientious objection' ('CO') in reproductive health care should be called dishonourable disobedience because it violates medical ethics and the right to lawful health care, and should therefore be disallowed. Three countries - Sweden, Finland, and Iceland - do not generally permit HCPs in the public health care system to refuse to perform a legal medical service for reasons of 'CO' when the service is part of their professional duties.

[Incidence and management of ectopic pregnancy in Iceland 2000-2009].

Introduction: Ectopic pregnancy can be life-threatening. Its treatment has changed radically during the last two decades. The study objective was to evaluate incidence and treatment of ectopic pregnancy in the Icelandic population during the decade 2000-2009.

Variants in DENND1A are associated with polycystic ovary syndrome in women of European ancestry.

Context: A genome-wide association study has identified three loci (five independent signals) that confer risk for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in Han Chinese women. Replication is necessary to determine whether the same variants confer risk for PCOS in women of European ancestry.

Objective: The objective of the study was to test whether these PCOS risk variants in Han Chinese women confer risk for PCOS in women of European ancestry.

Clinicopathologic conference: multiple fetal demises, lactic acidosis and hepatic iron accumulation.

A case of a premature infant with lactic acidosis and hepatic iron accumulation, born to a mother with multiple fetal demises, is presented and discussed by both clinician and pathologist, in this traditional clinico-pathologic conference. The discussion includes the differential diagnoses of lactic acidosis and hepatic iron accumulation in infants.

[Use of hormone replacement therapy by Icelandic women in the years 1996-2001.].

Introduction: Since the late seventies the use of hormone replacement therapy by peri- and postmenopausal women has been steadily increasing. This was shown in a former study of hormonal use among Icelandic women who had responded to a questionnaire when attending cancer screening at the Cancer Detection Clinic (CDC) of the Icelandic Cancer Society in the years 1979-1996. This current study is an independent extension of the former study with the goal of investigating menopausal hormone use among Icelandic women during the period of 1996-2001 and comparing the results with the former study period of 1979-1995.