Raloxifene plus ossein-hydroxyapatite compound versus raloxifene plus calcium carbonate to control bone loss in postmenopausal women: a randomized trial.

Objective: To compare the efficacy and safety of adding ossein-hydroxyapatite compound (OHC) or calcium carbonate (CC) to raloxifene (RLX) therapy for controlling bone loss in postmenopausal women.

Design: : Ninety postmenopausal women were assigned to treatment with RLX plus OHC (group 1, 48 women) or RLX plus CC (group 2, 42 women) for up to 3 years in an open-label, comparative study. Ultrasound measurement of amplitude-dependent speed of sound (ADSoS) was used to evaluate mean changes in bone mineral density.

Clinical usefulness of 3-dimensional sonography and power Doppler angiography for diagnosis of endometrial carcinoma.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess whether endometrial volume (EV) and 3-dimensional (3D) power Doppler indices can discriminate between hyperplasia and endometrial carcinoma and can predict extension of the endometrial carcinoma.

Methods: Eighty-four women with uterine bleeding and a histopathologic diagnosis of endometrial hyperplasia (n = 29) or carcinoma (n = 55) were preoperatively examined by transvaginal 3D sonography and power Doppler angiography. Endometrial thickness (ET), EV, the vascularization index (VI), the flow index (FI), the vascularization-flow index (VFI), and the intratumoral resistive index (RI) were measured.

Endometrial volume and vascularity measurements by transvaginal three-dimensional ultrasonography and power Doppler angiography in stimulated and tumoral endometria: intraobserver reproducibility.

Objectives: To assess intraobserver reproducibility of the endometrial volume (EV) and 3D power Doppler indices (vascularization index, VI; flow index, FI; and vascularization flow index, VFI) of the endometrium and subendometrial area using three-dimensional power Doppler angiography (3D-PDA).

Methods: Twenty-five women on the hCG day after controlled ovarian stimulation and 15 patients presenting with uterine bleeding and suspicious endometrial thickening (10 endometrial cancers and 5 endometrial hyperplasias) were scanned. Eighty volume data sets were analyzed using the VOCAL imaging program.

Intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility of ovarian volume, antral follicle count, and vascularity indices obtained with transvaginal 3-dimensional ultrasonography, power Doppler angiography, and the virtual organ computer-aided analysis imaging program.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess intraobserver and interobserver reproducibility of the parameters of ovarian response and oocyte ability, studied by 3-dimensional ultrasonography and power Doppler angiography (PDA), and the possible influence of the ovarian functional stage.

Methods: Twenty-nine women were included in an in vitro fertilization program. Fourteen women were evaluated after pituitary suppression (basal group), and 15 were scanned on the human chorionic gonadotropin administration day, after gonadotropin ovarian stimulation (stimulated group).