Confirmation of the systematic presence of tin particles in fallopian tubes or uterine horns of Essure implant explanted patients: A study of 18 cases with the same pathological process.

Objective: To examine associations between local and systemic symptoms and the wear of the tin weld of Essure implants.

Design: study of a series of cases.

Settings: Two French hospitals.

Identification of inorganic particles resulting from degradation of ESSURE® implants: Study of 10 cases.

Objective: Approximately 750,000 women worldwide have undergone ESSURE hysteroscopic sterilization since 2002. In 2015, an increase in adverse effects was noted, with gynaecological and systemic symptoms reported. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis of fallopian tube and uterine horn tissues and implants, after hysterectomy or salpingectomy, revealed the presence of inorganic particles resulting from implant degradation.

Fetal toxoplasmosis and negative amniocentesis: necessity of an ultrasound follow-up.

Prenatal diagnosis of congenital toxoplasmosis relies on the PCR test on amniotic fluid and ultrasound follow-up of the fetus. We report two cases of toxoplasma infection during the first trimester of gestation with a discrepant diagnosis of fetal infection. PCR performed more than four weeks after the estimated date of contamination was negative.

[Evaluation of 100 autopsies performed in the maternity service of the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon during an 18 month period].

100 Necropsies have been performed from January 1983 to June 1984, on 53 abortus and stillborn and 47 therapeutic terminations of pregnancy. All fetuses came from the same obstetric unit. Half spontaneous fetal deaths remained of unknown aetiology; in 18 cases (34%) placental, maternal or pregnancy pathology existed; fetal abnormalities were discovered in 10 (18%).

[Water intoxication following oxytocin perfusion].

The authors report a case of water intoxication in a woman who received 140 I.U. of oxytocin in 3 litres of glucose serum in 15 hours to induce a therapeutic abortion.

[Ultrasonography and alpha fetoprotein determination: two complementary tests in the prenatal diagnosis of anencephaly].

From an observation, authors underline the interest of two complementary tests: ultrasonography and amniotic fluid AFP determination. About the reported case, the chronology of facts is unusual: ultrasonography led initially to suspect anomaly, then elevated AFP result confirmed the malformation.

[Trophoblastic tissue pulmonary embolus in a molar pregnancy (author's transl)].

We report a case of pulmonary embolus which is presumed to have been of trophoblastic tissue in a woman in her second pregnancy who had a hyperactive hydatidiform mole. (The size of the uterus was 27 cm after thirteen weeks of amenorrhoea. The level of urinary H.