Incidence of diabetes mellitus at postpartum six to twelve months following the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus.

Objective: The aim of this study was to research the rates of diabetes mellitus (DM) and the risk factors that may play a role in the prediction of this condition by evaluating patients with the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) at the 6(th)-12(th) postpartum months.

Material And Method: Among 109 cases who had been invited to the hospital for oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) at the 6(th)-12(th) postpartum months, 84 cases (77%) were enrolled in the study. To the 78 patients that were found to be appropriate according to the study criteria, 75 gr OGTT was administered.

Blood loss and power Doppler ultrasound characteristics of uterine artery blood flow after 2 levels of bilateral internal iliac artery ligation before extensive myomectomies.

Objective: To compare the blood loss and power Doppler ultrasonographic characteristics of uterine artery blood flow after 2 different techniques of internal iliac artery ligation prior to extensive myomectomy.

Study Design: A randomized, double-blind study was conducted in a tertiary referral center. Either bilateral ligation of the anterior branch of the internal iliac artery (group I, n = 14) or ligation 2 cm proximal to its bifurcation (group II, n = 14) was performed.

The multifilament polypropylene tape erosion trouble: tape structure vs surgical technique. Which one is the cause?

This study was designed to clarify whether the structure of multifilament tape or the surgical technique is associated with vaginal erosions. Patients were randomized into two groups: in group 1, formed from the patients who were operated with the technique "setting the tape loosely leaving a scissor tip gap between the tape and the urethra," and in group 2, formed from the patients who were operated with the technique "setting the tape actually touched the urethra and covering the tape by the adjacent pubocervicovaginal fascia with the aid of a suture." After 4-year follow-up, it was found that the erosion rate was very high in group 1 (13.

Partial molar pregnancy and coexisting fetus with diploid karyotype.

Objectives: To evaluate cases of partial hydatidiform mole coexisting with a live fetus, including an observation of our own, and to discuss the proper antenatal management of women wishing to continue with a partial molar pregnancy.

Method: A PubMed search was then undertaken, extending over the time period from 1975 to 2006, using the keywords 'partial hydratidiform mole', 'hydatidiform mole' and 'coexisting fetus'.

Results: At 16 weeks of gestation, an ultrasonographic examination revealed a normal fetus with an extremely large, multicystic placenta.

Analysis of metastatic ovarian tumors from extragenital primary sites.

Aims And Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate patients with metastatic ovarian tumors from extragenital primary sites.

Methods: The medical records of 75 patients were reviewed retrospectively for age at diagnosis, presenting symptoms, preoperative tumor marker levels, preoperative diagnostic workup, operative technique, intraoperative evaluation, frozen-section and pathology results, laterality of metastasis, and primary tumor site. The specific impact of metastasis from colorectal and gastric primary sites on laterality, gross features and dimensions of ovarian mass, volume of ascites and tumor marker levels was investigated.

Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and stool antigen in patients with hyperemesis gravidarum.

The objective of this paper is to investigate whether Helicobacter pylori is an etiologic factor in hyperemesis gravidarum. Thirty one patients with hyperemesis gravidarum and twenty nine pregnant controls without hyperemesis gravidarum were included in this prospective study. All pregnant women were examined both for Helicobacter pylori serum immunoglobulin G antibodies (HpIgG Ab), showing chronic infection, and Helicobacter pylori stool antigens (HpSA), showing active gastrointestinal colonization.

Results with EMA/CO (etoposide, methotrexate, actinomycin D, cyclophosphamide, vincristine) chemotherapy in gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of EMA/CO (etoposide, methotrexate, actinomycin D, cyclophosphamide, vincristine) regimen for the treatment of high-risk gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN). Thirty-three patients with high-risk GTN, scored according to World Health Organization, received 159 EMA/CO treatment cycles between 1994 and 2004. Twenty-three patients were treated primarily with EMA/CO, and 10 patients were treated secondarily after failure of single agent or MAC (methotrexate, actinomycin D, cyclophosphamide, or clorambucile) III chemotherapy.

Changes in menstrual pattern and ovarian function following bipolar electrocauterization of the fallopian tubes for voluntary surgical contraception.

Objective: Our aim was to investigate the changes in menstrual pattern, ovarian reserve and presence of dysmenorrhea and ovulation after tubal ligation via bipolar electrocautery.

Methods: Sixty patients requesting voluntary tubal ligation were recruited in the study. Laparoscopic tubal sterilization via bipolar electrocoagulation was performed in all patients in the early follicular phase.

Intravenous versus oral iron for treatment of anemia in pregnancy: a randomized trial.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of intravenous iron to oral iron in the treatment of anemia in pregnancy.

Methods: In this randomized open-label study, 90 women with hemoglobin levels between 8 and 10.5 g/dL and ferritin values less than 13 microg/L received either oral iron polymaltose complex (300 mg elemental iron per day) or intravenous iron sucrose.

Color doppler flow analysis of uterine and ovarian arteries before and after tubal sterilization: electrocautery versus pomeroy.

Background/aim: To compare the changes in uterine and ovarian artery blood flow following laparoscopic sterilization via bipolar cautery with Pomeroy tubal ligation via mini-laparotomy in patients who had voluntary surgical sterilization.

Methods: Ninety consecutive fertile women applying for voluntary tubal ligation were recruited in this prospective study. Patients were allocated for either laparoscopic tubal ligation via bipolar electrocoagulation (group 1) or Pomeroy tubal ligation via mini-laparotomy (group 2) according to their preference.

Actinomyces infection in female genital tract.

Objectives: To analyze clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients with pelvic actinomyces.

Study Design: We studied five patients with pelvic actinomyces who were admitted between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2002. The initial complaints, diagnostic methods, therapeutic alternatives and results of the therapies were examined.

Chylous ascites following para-aortic lymphadenectomy: a case report.

Background: Chylous ascites is an uncommon complication following para-aortic lymph node dissection in the management of gynecologic malignancies. Treatment options are serial paracentesis, medium-chain triglyceride diet, total parenteral nutrition and somatostatin as conservative management and peritoneovenous shunting, and surgical exploration for refractory cases.

Case: A 31-year-old female patient developed chylous ascites following para-aortic lymph node dissection for borderline mucinous tumor of the ovary.

A population-based risk factor scoring will decrease unnecessary testing for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus.

Background: To determine the effectiveness of a population-based risk factor scoring to decrease unnecessary testing for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

Methods: We formed a risk factor scoring over five, which questions maternal age, body mass index and first-degree relatives with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, a prior macrosomic fetus and adverse outcome during the previous pregnancies. All participants underwent a 50-g glucose challenge test (GCT) followed by a 100-g oral glucose tolerence test (OGTT).