Occurrence of Mycoplasma genitalium in the peritoneal fluid of fertile and infertile women with detailed analysis among infertile women.

Objective: To determine the frequency of occurrence of Mycoplasma genitalium infection in the peritoneal fluid of infertile women as compared to fertile women.

Materials And Methods: We have selected 162 infertile women aged 22-40 years as study subject and 162 women posted for elective caesarean section, were taken as control. Peritoneal fluid of the infertile women and control samples was obtained by suction during diagnostic laparoscopy and M.

Long-Term Prognostic Risk in Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Disease as a Function of the Number of Peripheral Arterial Lesions.

Background: Although patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) are known to have an increased risk of adverse prognosis, simple techniques to further risk-stratify PAD patients would be clinically useful. A plausible but unexplored factor to predict such risk would be greater disease burden, manifested as multiple lower extremity lesions. The aim of this study was to examine the association between having multiple versus isolated lower extremity PAD lesions and long-term prognosis.

One year health status benefits following treatment for new onset or exacerbation of peripheral arterial disease symptoms: the importance of patients' baseline health status.

Objective/background: Limited information is available on expected health status gains following invasive treatment in peripheral arterial disease (PAD). One year health status outcomes following invasive treatment for PAD were compared, and whether pre-procedural health status was indicative of 1 year health status gains was evaluated.

Methods: Pre-procedural and 1 year health status (Short Form-12, Physical Component Score [PCS]) was prospectively assessed in a cohort of 474 patients, enrolled from 2 Dutch vascular clinics (March 2006-August 2011), with new or exacerbation of PAD symptoms.

Determinants of invasive treatment in lower extremity peripheral arterial disease.

Objective: Since it is unknown what factors are weighed in a clinician's decision to refer patients with symptomatic lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) for invasive treatment, we examined the relationship between health status, lesion location, and site variations and invasive treatment referral ≤1 year following diagnosis in patients with PAD.

Methods: This was a prospective observational cohort study on ambulatory patients that presented themselves at two vascular surgery outpatient clinics. A total of 970 patients with new symptoms of PAD or with an exacerbation of existing PAD symptoms that required clinical evaluation and treatment (Rutherford Grade I) were eligible, 884 consented and were included between March 2006 and November 2010.

Obstetric hysterectomy: a life saving emergency.

Objective: To study the cases of obstetric hysterectomy performed over a period of 1 year (January 2008 to December 2008) in tertiary care center to estimate the incidence, indications, and maternal outcome following the procedure.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective analysis of 20 cases of emergency obstetric hysterectomies performed during the study period.

Results: During the study period, there were 11,356 deliveries and 20 emergency hysterectomies were done, giving an incidence of 0.