Publications by authors named "L Saraswat"
Study Question: How does pre-diagnosis use of hospital care differentiate between women later diagnosed with endometriosis and age-matched controls without a diagnosis?
Summary Answer: Women with hospital-diagnosed endometriosis had more frequent hospital contacts in the 10 years leading up to the diagnosis compared to women without a diagnosis of endometriosis, and the contacts were related to registered diagnoses in nearly all of the included ICD-10 chapters for the entire period.
What Is Known Already: Only a few studies have investigated the utilization of health care among women with endometriosis in the time before diagnosis, but current research shows that women with endometriosis have a higher utilization compared to women without diagnosed endometriosis. To our knowledge, no study has investigated the type of contact related to the higher utilization by using the ICD-10 diagnoses registered to the hospital contact.
IgG4-related autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a rare inflammatory condition characterized by elevated IgG4-positive plasma cells and lymphoplasmacytic infiltration in the pancreas. This disease responds to steroid therapy but can be challenging to differentiate from pancreatic cancer. In this paper, we present two cases of IgG4-related AIP presenting as pancreatic masses.
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- There is insufficient evidence to recommend the routine use of ureteric catheterisation or stenting during complex gynaecological surgeries, as studies show no significant reduction in complications like ureteric injury.
- A total of ten studies were analyzed, including three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and seven observational studies with over 8,600 patients, demonstrating no clear benefits of stenting.
- Although ureteric stenting may increase the risk of urinary tract infections, the findings are not statistically significant, and more research is needed to fully understand the risks and benefits of this procedure.
Background: Heavy menstrual bleeding affects one in four women and negatively impacts quality of life. Ulipristal acetate is prescribed to treat symptoms associated with uterine fibroids. We compared the effectiveness of ulipristal acetate and the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system at reducing the burden of heavy menstrual bleeding, irrespective of the presence of fibroids.
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