Pyomyoma after uterine instrumentation. A case report.

Background: Since 1945, only 10 cases of pyomyoma have been described in the literature. Four were related to pregnancy but none to elective abortion or uterine instrumentation.

Case: A 32-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with a history of lower abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and low grade fever with a past medical history significant for uterine leiomyomata and a second-trimester elective abortion 10 weeks prior to admission.

The enlarged uterus. Relation of uterine size to symptoms and histopathologic findings.

Objective: To determine the association between the weight of an enlarged uterus and it clinical and histopathologic pictures.

Study Design: Forty-three patients with symptoms related to uterine enlargement of < 280 g who underwent total abdominal hysterectomy were compared to 73 patients with uteri weighing > or = 280 g.

Results: The mean age, parity, duration of disease and incident of past myomectomy were not different.

The myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome: a review.

Objective: To review the literature regarding the association of erythrocytosis and uterine myomas, because of the lack of anemia in many women with menorrhagia and fibroids.

Data Sources: We searched the MEDLINE English-language data base and reference lists to find articles referring to the myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome.

Methods Of Study Selection: All case reports of the myomatous erythrocytosis syndrome were included in this review.

Serum hormone changes in parturients given steroid preparations to suppress lactation.

Prior to the introduction of bromocriptine as the drug of choice for the suppression of puerperal lactation, long-acting sex steroid preparations, especially estrogen-androgen combinations, were utilized for many years to suppress postpartum lactation. In spite of the popularity of these steroids, little information is available concerning serum hormonal levels following their postpartum administration. In this study, 31 postpartum women were divided into three groups: group C, 12 women receiving no hormone therapy; group E + T, 10 women receiving an estrogen-testosterone preparation; group E, 9 women receiving an estrogen preparation.

Risk factors for pregnancy loss apparent at conception in infertile couples.

Charts of 206 consecutive pregnancies occurring in couples seen because of infertility were analyzed in an attempt to identify factors, apparent at the time of conception, which may impose risks on pregnancy outcome. These factors were compared in 34 spontaneous abortions and 172 full-term pregnancies. Although the mean age was similar in both groups, women 35 years or older had a significantly higher incidence of spontaneous abortion than younger women.