Clinical characteristics of endometrioma with and without dysmenorrhea diagnosed by laparoscopy: A retrospective cohort study in a tertiary center.

Objective: Clinical characteristics of patients with endometrioma without dysmenorrhea have not been well delineated; our goal was to remedy this issue by performing a retrospective cohort study.

Methods: A total of 379 patients who underwent laparoscopic surgery for endometrioma ≥4 cm at a tertiary hospital were included in this retrospective study. Patients were divided into two groups based on the presence of dysmenorrhea at the time of hospital visit; with dysmenorrhea group and without dysmenorrhea group.

Clinical Characteristics of Gynecologic Problems During Childhood in the Korean Population.

Background: This study analyzed common gynecologic problems among Korean patients younger than ten years.

Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of medical records of patients younger than ten years who visited the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Clinic at Samsung Medical Center between 1995 and 2020.

Results: Among the 6,605 patients who visited the Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Clinic, data from 642 patients younger than ten years were analyzed in this study.

Preoperative Oral Carbohydrate Loading in Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Study Objective: To determine whether carbohydrate loading improves the postoperative quality of recovery (QoR) better than the midnight fasting policy in laparoscopic gynecologic surgeries.

Design: Randomized, parallel-group trial.

Setting: Tertiary university hospital.

Comparison of Reduced-Port Robotic Surgery (RPRS) with conventional 2 port laparoscopy for myomectomy.

Objective: To compare the surgical outcomes between Reduced-Port Robotic Surgery (RPRS) using the Octo-Port system and conventional 2 port laparoscopy for myomectomy.

Study Design: This is a prospective, non-randomized study, which compared and analyzed data from 41 patients who underwent RPRS myomectomy and 22 patients who underwent conventional 2 port laparoscopic myomectomy from April 2016 through July 2019. We compared the myoma enucleation time, suture time, myoma type, and the location of the largest myoma between the two groups.

Postoperative analgesic efficacy of continuous wound infusion with local anesthetics after laparoscopy (PAIN): a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

Background: To investigate the efficacy of continuous wound infusion (CWI) with local anesthetics for reducing postoperative pain compared with placebo in patients undergoing benign gynecologic laparoscopy.

Methods: In this double-blind trial, 66 patients were randomly assigned to receive either ropivacaine or normal saline though a multi-orifice catheter placed into the umbilical surgical wound for 50 h postoperatively. The primary outcome measure was the severity of postoperative pain 1, 6, 12, 24, and 48 h after surgery.

Amelioration of neurodegenerative diseases by cell death-induced cytoplasmic delivery of humanin.

Inhibition of the early intracellular event that triggers neurodegenerative cascades and reversal of neuronal cell death are essential for effective treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this study, a novel therapeutic for AD, a transducible humanin with an extended caspase-3 cleavage sequence (tHN-C3), was developed and showed multiple mechanisms of therapeutic action. These included targeted delivery of anti-apoptotic protein humanin through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to neuronal cells, specific inhibition of caspase-3 activation to inhibit the early triggering of AD progression, and delivery of humanin into the cytoplasm of neuronal cells undergoing apoptosis where it exerts its anti-apoptotic functions effectively.

Treatment of wastewater containing Cu(II)-EDTA using immobilized TiO2/solar light.

The photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) of Cu(II)-ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA), employing immobilized TiO2, under natural sunlight rather than artificial UV light conditions, was investigated at a latitude 38 degrees. The immobilized TiO2 film was prepared using a sol gel process, the crystalline structure of which was identified, by X-ray diffraction analysis, as a mixture of the rutile and anatase forms. The PCO of Cu(II)-EDTA was examined in a circulating reactor with 20 L of 10(-4) M Cu(II)-EDTA and synthetic and real wastewaters at pH 4 and 6.

Solar-chemical treatment of groundwater contaminated with petroleum at gas station sites: ex situ remediation using solar/TiO(2) photocatalysis and Solar Photo-Fenton.

Groundwater samples contaminated by BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene isomers and TPHs (total petroleum hydrocarbons) were treated with advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), such as TiO(2) photocatalysis and Fe(2+)/H(2)O(2) exposed to solar light (37 degrees N and 128 degrees E) with an average intensity of 1.7 mW/cm(2) at 365 nm. These AOP processes showed feasibility in the treatment of groundwater contaminated with BTEX, TPH and TOC (Total Organic Carbon).