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Am J Reprod Immunol
January 2025
The First School of Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Purpose: Characterized as a prevalent sexually transmitted infection, Chlamydia trachomatis is intimately associated with reproductive tract complications, including pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and infertility. However, the causal relationships between C. trachomatis infection and reproductive tract complications remain elusive.
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December 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Affiliated Jiangning Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Background: Ectopic pregnancies represent a potentially life-threatening medical emergency, with 95% being tubal. This meta-analysis aimed to identify early predictors for single-dose methotrexate (MTX) treatment failure in tubal pregnancies.
Methods: A literature search was conducted across several databases from their inception to December 2023, with references in the selected studies manually reviewed.
Cureus
January 2025
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Al Thagher General Hospital, Jeddah, SAU.
Heterotopic pregnancy is defined as the concurrent presence of both an intrauterine pregnancy and an extrauterine (typically ectopic) pregnancy. This report presents the case of a 36-year-old female patient who presented to the emergency department with lower abdominal pain. A comprehensive evaluation, including transabdominal and transvaginal ultrasound imaging, revealed a heterotopic pregnancy at an estimated gestational age of six weeks and two days.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Case Rep
January 2025
Breastfeeding Research Center Family Health Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences Tehran Iran.
A rare spontaneous triplet heterotopic pregnancy occurred in a patient using emergency contraception. This highlights the need to consider heterotopic pregnancy in differential diagnoses for patients presenting with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding, even with detected intrauterine pregnancies, especially after failed emergency contraception, necessitating thorough laboratory and ultrasonographic diagnostic work-up.
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January 2025
Julie Maslowsky, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Young adults' access to contraception is shifting after the June 2022 United States Supreme Court decision. This concurrent mixed-methods study measured young adults' use of and perceptions about tubal sterilization and vasectomy after the leaked opinion in May 2022. Using national-level medical claims data from IQVIA, we conducted difference-in-differences analyses of tubal sterilizations and vasectomies by age and state policy; using open-text survey responses from national MyVoice surveys in 2022 and 2023, we thematically analyzed young adults' perspectives.
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