The relationship between carotid intima-media thickness and cognitive function and depression in postmenopausal women.

Introduction: Atherosclerosis, cognitive impairment, and depression are common entities in postmenopausal patients. Our aim was to ascertain the relationship between the carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) and cognitive function and depression in postmenopausal women.

Material And Methods: This was an observational, cross-sectional, comparative study among postmenopausal women.

[Cytologic correlation between the Bethesda system and colposcopic biopsy].

Bethesda system is useful in the citologic diagnosis of premalign diseases of cervix. It was determined the correlation between citologic report using Bethesda system and combined colposcopic index (CCI) or Reid, to diagnose premalign diseases of cervix by histologic diagnostic of punch biopsy by colposcopy. A total of 118 patients come to the colposcopy clinic having smear anormal citology to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), only o associated to HPV.

[Estradiol receptors in cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervico-uterine cancer].

The objective of this study was to know if there is a correlation in contents o (R + E) in biopsies from patients pre and post-menopausal, in normal cervix with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (NIC) and invasive cancer. Thirty four patients with abnormal cytology; colposcopy was carried out, and two biopsies were taken from the suspicious lesion, they were sent for histopathological study, and for estrogenic receptors; both studies were correlated later. It was seen that (R +/- E) concentration is higher in intraepithelial lesions of low and high degree than in control patients; and it was not so in premenopausal with invasive cancer where (R +/- E) are much lower, as to postmenopausal (R + E) concentration is higher specially in invasive cancer.

[Autoimmune thrombocytopenia and pregnancy].

Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura PTA, occurs more commonly in women during the reproductive years. Consequently, physicians frequently must manage pregnant patients with PTA. The management of the mother is simplified because an important measure of platelet count, is readily available.