Influence of overweight in elderly patients undergoing vaginal surgery due to pelvic floor disorders.

Aim: To evaluate the feasibility and safety of vaginal surgery for treatment of genital prolapse in overweight compared to normal weight patients aged 50 years or older.

Patients And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the perioperative data of 93 patients aged between 50 and 87 years undergoing surgery due to pelvic floor disorders. A total of 54 women had a body mass index (BMI) of 25 kg/m(2) or higher and were defined as the study collective.

Morbidity in elderly women undergoing gynaecological pelvic floor surgery.

Purpose: We investigated the morbidity in elderly patients undergoing surgery due to pelvic organ prolapse.

Methods: Perioperative data of 113 patients aged at least 50 years who underwent gynaecological prolapse surgery between 2005 and 2011 were analyzed retrospectively. Forty-eight women were older than 70 years and matched our inclusion criteria.

Influence of the vascular endothelial growth factor on the development of severe pre-eclampsia or HELLP syndrome.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the maternal serum concentrations of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in patients whose pregnancies were complicated by pre-eclampsia or HELLP syndrome with those of healthy pregnant controls and to study its relationship with the hormonal and nutritive function of the placenta.

Methods: The study group consisted of 30 primaparae who suffered from either severe pre-eclampsia (n = 16) or from HELLP syndrome (n = 14). 30 healthy pregnant woman of the same gestational age served as control group.

Melanocytic proliferations associated with lichen sclerosus in adolescence.

Lichen sclerosus is found in children with an estimated prevalence of at least 1 in 900. Pigmentation in lichen sclerosus is infrequent and melanocytic proliferations in lichen sclerosis are rare and difficult to interpret. In this report, we describe the case of a prepubertal girl presenting with a junctional melanocytic nevus of the labia minora superimposed by lichen sclerosus.

Semen parameters in patients with unilateral testicular cancer compared to patients with other malignancies.

Aim: The aim of our study was to evaluate pretreatment semen quality in patients with unilateral testicular cancer in comparison to semen parameters of patients suffering from other malignancies.

Methods: Semen analysis according to WHO recommendations were performed in 16 patients suffering from unilateral testicular cancer (group 1) and in 21 patients who were diagnosed to have other malignant tumors (group 2: non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: n=7, Hodgkin's disease: n=6, leukemia: n=3, osteosarcoma: n=2, rectal cancer: n=2, thyroid carcinoma: n=1) prior to anti-cancer treatment.

Results: Normozoospermia was observed in none of the testicular cancer patients but in five of the other patients ( p=0.

Serum folate and Vitamin B12 levels in women using modern oral contraceptives (OC) containing 20 microg ethinyl estradiol.

Objective: The effects of modern oral contraceptives (OC) on serum concentrations of folate and cobalamin are controversial.

Study Design: Case-control study on the cobalamin and folate status of 71 healthy female nulligravidae using "low dose" OC for >or=3 months and 170 controls. Factors interfering with vitamin metabolism were thoroughly controlled.