[Insulin-glucose ratio and body fat composition in patients with chronic anovulation and sterility].

A clinical, descriptive, and transversal study was conducted in a group of patients with chronic anovulation and sterility, to correlate insulin resistance, determined by the fasting glucose/insulin ratio, with body fat composition using anthropometrics parameters and the interaction of light near infrared region method, we studied 41 young patients with chronic anovulation and sterility. Based on their body mass index, all patients had obesity or overweight. Similarly, most of them presented with a percentage of body fat over the recommended limits.

[Flexible vaginal cast covered with oxidated cellulose. Surgical option in neovagina for patients with Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome].

The alterations in differentiation of the mullerian derivatives and urogenital sinus are a frequent cause of demanding attention in the gynecologist office. Vaginal agenesis and hypoplasia are the representative events of alterations of human sexual differentiation. Handling such conditions is in direct relationship to the magnitude of the anatomical damage and the biopsychosocial consequences of such pathologies.

[Clomiphene acetate and prednisone: alternative approach for the management of patients with chronic anovulation and clomiphene treatment failure].

Chronic anovulation is a common neuroendocrine cause of infertility. Pharmacological management of such condition includes the use of clomiphen citrate (CC), which is the most utilized of the ovulation inductors. Clinical efficacy of CC provides ovulation rates of around 70%.

[Evolution of breast cancer. A 5-year clinical experience at a city hospital].

In order to clarify the role that some epidemiologic factor might have on the clinical evolution of breast cancer, a retrospective study was conducted. Seventy six women diagnosed with breast cancer were selected from the population of the Hospital de Ginecobstetricia 3 del Centro Medico Nacional "La Raza" del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, from 1985 to 1990. Age, medical and family history, clinical onset, diagnosis, treatment, evolution and clinical status at present were analyzed.

[Indomethacin in threatening premature labor. Fetal and neonatal cardiovascular effects].

At the Hospital de Ginecobstetricia del Centro Medico "La Raza", between october 1, 1990 to may 31, 1991, were attended 50 women with premature labor, with pregnancies of 30-36 week sold. They were given 100 mg of indomethacin, rectal, daily, in order to obtain arrest of the uterine activity. The mean doses given was 4 +/- 0.