Quality of life in endometrial cancer survivors: single institution experience in Slovakia.

Background: To evaluate the association between body mass index (BMI) and quality of life among endometrial cancer survivors.

Methods: Women diagnosed with endometrioid endometrial cancer at the Slovakian university hospital between January 2010 and December 2018 were identified. Three hundred ninety women diagnosed with endometrial cancer were invited to participate.

[Retroperitoneal lymphangioleiomyomatosis - a case reports].

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare progressive disease affecting women of childbearing age. The disease is characterised by an abnormal proliferation of immature smooth muscle cells predominantly in the lung. It gradually leads to respiratory failure, and it frequently result in death.

Follow-up after primary therapy of malignant epithelial ovarian tumors.

Follow-up after finishing the primary therapy has become a routine aimed to an early detection of relapse, decreasing the mortality and improving the quality of patient's life. Main aim of the follow-up is to prolong the life of the patient. No prospective randomized study confirming the scientific character of such aims has been published, so far.

[Spontaneous rupture of uterine vessels during pregnancy in a patient with previous endometriosis].

Spontaneous rupture of the utero-ovarian vessels during pregnancy is a rare condition that can be life-threatening. Endometriosis is one of the factors associated with this complication of the pregnancy. Location of the pain as well as the course of this complication can simulate various diseases that must be dealt with.

[Education of gynecologic surgeons].

Objective: To point out the latest trends in the surgical training that need to be implemented in Slovak and Czech Republic, not only in gynecology and obstetrics but also in all surgical specialties.

Subject: Review article.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty Hospital Nitra and Constantine the Philosopher University Nitra.

[Assessment of routine surveillance of patients after primary treatment for cervical cancer in stage I. and II.: retrospective analysis].

Objective: Evaluate the monitoring and diagnosis of recurrence after primary treatment for cervical cancer.

Design: Retrospective analysis.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty Hospital and Constantine the Philosopher University Nitra.

[Peripartum hysterectomy--an audit in Slovakia in 2007].

Objective: An audit was performed to assess the number, indications and complications of peripartum hysterectomy at the departments of obstetrics/gynecology in Slovakia in 2007.

Design: Observational descriptive study.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty Hospital Nitra and Constantine the Philosopher University Nitra.

[Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome: a case report].

Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome (FHCS) is a liver inflammation associated with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). It is usually associated with a sharp pain in the right upper quadrant at the rib margin. Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are thought to be primary causative agents of FHCS.

[The use of recombinant factor VIIa on the therapy of massive bleeding after cesarean section].

Objective: To present a case report of severe post-partum bleeding after caesarean section and successful treatment using recombinant factor VIIa.

Setting: Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Faculty Hospital, Nitra, Slovak Republic.

Case Report: A 29-year old secundigravida presented with major post-partum bleeding after caesarean section due to uterine atony.