Medical management of preterm labor

Thanassas J, Koukoura Ο, Κoumantakis G, Sifakis S

Preterm birth is the leading cause of infant mortality and morbidity. The rate of preterm birth has steadily increased over the past two decades, possibly associated with the increase of the use of assisted reproductive treatments and the limited effectiveness of tocolysis. Tocolytic agents may postpone preterm labor for a short time, enough for the action of corticosteroids and the transfer …

Liver diseases in pregnancy

Grammatikakis J, Evaggelinakis N, Kassanos D

Acute viral hepatitis is the most common cause of jaundice in pregnancy. Chronic hepatitis B or D infections may be transmitted to the neonate. However, hepatitis B virus transmission is effectively prevented with perinatal hepatitis B vaccination and prophylaxis with hepatitis B immune globulin. Cholelithiasis occurs in 6% of pregnancies. Complications can be safely treated …

Endometriosis: Newer data of the disease pathogenesis

Karanikolopoulos P, Εvaggelinakis E, Kassanos D

Endometriosis is a disease that affects millions of women around the world, with significant impact on their quality of life. Modern therapeutic approaches mainly aim to relieving women from their symptoms-cronic pelvic pain and infertility-while its potential role as predisposing factor for several types of cancer, especially for ovarian cancer, is still under investigation …

Safety and reliability of diagnostic hysteroscopy in pre- and post-menopausal women

Μakris N, Vomvolaki E, Αntsaklis A

Diagnostic hysteroscopy is an examination method of the endometrial cavity, used since the 19th century. The development of technology improved the instruments which are required. Hysteroscopy has been increasingly used as first line investigation for the diagnosis and the treatment of many diseases involving the uterine cavity. The purpose of this study was to report the hysteroscopic …