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Obstet Gynecol
January 2025
Riley Children's, the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Indiana University Health Fetal Center, and the Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana; the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Surgery, Fetal Care and Surgery Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brown University Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island; the Fetal Medicine Unit, St George's Hospital, St George's University of London, London, United Kingdom; the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Objective: To investigate short-term maternal and neonatal outcomes in individuals with twin pregnancies and two prior cesarean deliveries who underwent trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC).
Methods: A cross-sectional study of live-birth data was conducted between 2014 and 2021 in the United States. Individuals with more than two prior cesarean deliveries and multiple gestations higher than twins were excluded.
PLoS One
January 2025
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
End-user feedback early in product development is important for optimizing multipurpose prevention technologies for HIV and pregnancy prevention. We evaluated the acceptability of the 90-day dapivirine levonorgestrel ring (DPV-LNG ring) used for 14 days compared to a dapivirine-only ring (DVR-200mg) in MTN-030/IPM 041 (n = 23), and when used for 90 days cyclically or continuously in MTN-044/IPM 053/CCN019 (n = 25). We enrolled healthy, non-pregnant, HIV-negative women aged 18-45 in Pittsburgh, PA and Birmingham, AL (MTN-030 only).
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January 2025
Houston Methodist Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Urogynecology, Houston TX 77030.
Objective: To compare the rates of surgical site infection (SSI) after hysterectomy using vaginal antisepsis with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) versus povidone-iodine (PI).
Data Sources: PubMed, Embase, and Clinicaltrials.gov databases were queried from January 1, 1985 through Dec 7, 2023.
Cureus
December 2024
Research, Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine, Winter Garden, USA.
The Pap smear is widely recognized in medicine as the single most successful contributor to cancer screening and preventative care. Women have Dr. George Papanicolaou (1870-1962) to thank for this groundbreaking contribution to their healthcare-a discovery that, fascinatingly, was made incidentally during his study of ovulation cycles in guinea pigs.
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December 2024
Department of Peripheral Vascular Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. Electronic address:
Bowen's disease (BD) is an intraepithelial squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) that commonly affects older individuals, with the vulva being a prevalent site in women. Lesions within the vagina pose a particular challenge for surgical treatment, often compromising both functional integrity and cosmesis. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an emerging, safe, and non-invasive technique utilizing a photosensitizer and a specific light source, widely applied in the treatment of malignancies and skin diseases.
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