Repeatability and Reproducibility of Potential Ultrasonographic Bishop Score Parameters.

Determination of the Bishop score (BS) is a traditional method of assessing the cervix in obstetrics and gynecology. This examination is characterized by subjectivity of assessment and low repeatability. In scientific studies intended to evaluate the results of the procedure based on the initial assessment, it is necessary to find an objective scale based on ultrasonography.

Repeatability and reproducibility of quantitative cervical strain elastography (E-Cervix) in pregnancy.

Strain elastography of the uterine cervix may be useful in the diagnosis and prediction of obstetric complications. The inability to obtain quantitative results, with only the possibility of visual semiquantitative evaluation of the obtained elastograms, has been the limitation of the method thus far. E-Cervix is a software program that uses intrinsic compression to excite tissue and allows the evaluation of quantitative parameters on the basis of pixel distribution in an elastogram.

Misoprostol vaginal insert and Foley catheter in labour induction - single center retrospective observational study of obstetrical outcome.

Objectives: Induction of labour is one of the most common procedures used in obstetrics and its prevalence tends to increase. In patients with an unripe cervix (Bishop score < 7) pre-induction procedures are used before the start of oxytocin induction. Currently there is no consensus among scientific societies on the optimal way of pre-induction.

Prevalence of Dyslipidaemia and Pre-Diabetes Among Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): Do We Overestimate Cardiovascular Risk?

PCOS is widely accepted as associated with an increased cardiovascular risk, however, without convincing evidence of an increased cardiovascular mortality. We assessed prevalence of obesity, glucose intolerance, and dyslipidaemia in 490 women with PCOS, aged 24.75±8.

Limitations of insulin resistance assessment in polycystic ovary syndrome.

Background: Though insulin resistance (IR) is common in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), there is no agreement as to what surrogate method of assessment of IR is most reliable.

Subjects And Methods: In 478 women with PCOS, we compared methods based on fasting insulin and either fasting glucose (HOMA-IR and QUICKI) or triglycerides (McAuley Index) with IR indices derived from glucose and insulin during OGTT (Belfiore, Matsuda and Stumvoll indices).

Results: There was a strong correlation between IR indices derived from fasting values HOMA-IR/QUICKI,  = -0.

[Complicated colonic diverticulitis at 34 weeks gestation].

Peritonitis is a set of symptoms of varying etiology usually with an accompanying infection, systemic and local changes within the peritoneal cavity Colonic diseases, especially colon perforation, are one of the most common causes of peritonitis. The course of the disease may be turbulent due to sudden perforation. In case of limited peritonitis the disease is not as acute as the perforation hole is small and it can be sealed by the omentum and internal organs.