Vesicovaginal fistula: a review of nigerian experience.

Background: Vesicovaginal fistula is a preventable calamity, which has been an age-long menace in developing countries.

Objective: To review the causes, complications, and outcome of Vesicovaginal fistula in Nigeria.

Methods: Studies on Vesicovaginal fistula were searched on the internet.

Pattern of cervical dilatation among parturients in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Objective: To evaluate the pattern of cervical dilatation in live singleton pregnancies with spontaneous onset of labor and to compare any differences among nulliparas (P ara 0) and multiparas (Para >or=1).

Material And Methods: Descriptive statistics are presented for 238 consecutive labor patients with spontaneous onset, >or=37 weeks gestation, live singleton pregnancy and who had spontaneous vertex delivery at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Nigeria, from May 2004 to June 2004. Pre-labor rupture of membrane and referred cases were excluded.

Thyroid diseases in pregnancy: a review.

Objective: To provide an overview of the pathophysiology of thyroid diseases in pregnancy and the various treatment methods currently available in its management.

Data Source: Review of literature was affected through index medicus search of major published journals and books.

Data Selection: Published data on thyroid diseases on women in the reproductive age group over the last four decades were utilised.

Posterior cervical lip for juxtacervical vesicovaginal fistula closure (M. Ijaiya's technique).

The use of the posterior lip of the cervix to close juxtacervical fistulae (M. Ijaiya's technique) may be particularly useful when the anterior lip of the cervix is involved in the pressure necrosis and it is difficult to achieve a tension-free repair. This technique is recommended for postmenopausal patients with a normal cervical smear and endometrial biopsy.

Complications from unsafe abortion: presentations at Ilorin, Nigeria.

This is a retrospective evaluation of the 220 patients that presented at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) with complications from unsafe abortions between 1st January, 1986 and 31st December 1999. History of previous induced abortion was agreed to by 80.5%, of patients while only 6.

Surgical management of female infertility in Ilorin, Nigeria.

Three hundred and seventeen female patients with infertility surgically managed and followed up for four years at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Nigeria are presented. 45 (14.2%) of these patients were pregnant.

Skin closure of laparotomy wounds: absorbable subcuticular sutures vs. non-absorbable interrupted sutures.

In a five year period (1984-1988) in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, 304 laparotomy patients whose skin incisions were closed with the traditional method of interrupted non-absorbable sutures or with absorbable subcuticular sutures were analysed. Out of these 304 patients, 164 had non-absorbable skin sutures while 140 had absorbable subcuticular sutures. The results of the two methods of skin closure were compared immediately on discharge, at 6 weeks and at 6 months after the operation.

Instrumental (operative) vaginal deliveries: vacuum extraction compared with forceps delivery at Ilorin University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria.

In a four-year period (1984 to 1987) a total of 141 Nigerian women who had instrumental vaginal deliveries at term in the Obstetric unit of University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, were studied. Out of this number 79 had forceps delivery while 62 had vacuum extraction. The forceps delivery rate had fluctuated between 0.