The important points here are that uterine fibroids are common, and most of the time do not need any treatment other than regular check-ups. When treatment is required, a hysterectomy can sometimes be avoided. Your physician will help you to decide which treatment options are best for your situation. Read more...

It is often difficult to tell for sure if pelvic infection is present. For that reason, if a woman has recurrent episodes of pelvic pain, laparoscopy may be necessary to accurately determine the cause of pain. (Laparoscopy is an examination done by a gynecologist usually done under anesthesia, which involves looking at the pelvic organs through a tiny telescoped inserted through the navel.) Read more...

Most patients will experience several hours of moderate to severe pain after visting a OBGYN. There may also be nausea, and possibly fever. The pain and nausea is controlled with intravenous medications, usually with a pump that allows self-administration of the medications. After an initial period of bed rest for six to eight hours, those patients with mild to moderate symptoms may be discharged. Most patients are hospitalized overnight. Most symptoms are substantially improved by the next morning allowing discharge from the hospital. Read more...

There is evidence that use of the pill could prevent certain ovarian cysts from forming. It also has the potential to increase the strength of your bones, and possibly could even prevent rheumatoid arthritis, although these areas are still under investigation. Read more...

Celiac disease occurs in roughly 1% of all humans. It is an autoimmune condition initially caused by hypersensitivity and hyperimmunity to a class of proteins, called gliadins, which are found in the outer husk of common grains such as wheat, barley, rye, and oats. Because the small intestine becomes chronically inflamed by chronic immune attack, celiac disease also is referred to as “immune enteropathy”. Read more...

Before we talk about treatment of stress urinary incontinence we have to ask ourselves a question - what type of a stress urinary incontinence does this patient have before you do any kind of a surgical intervention or even conservative treatment. Read more...

Patients with genitourinary infection by Chlamydia trachomatisand Mycoplasma sp. have increased frequency of sperm DNA fragmentationin comparison to fertile controls. This increase is proportionallygreater than that found in classical semen parameters. After antibiotic therapy,DNA fragmentation is decreased to a greater extent than for any othersemen parameter. Read more...

The use of urinary gonadotrophins have actually beenevolving since the beginning of the 1960’s, and I think the first pregnancy was reported in the late sixties. Thenorm has been the use of something called hMG which is FSH and LH in equalamounts, and that was the gold standard up until the early part of the 1980’swhen urinary FSH became available which is mainly FSH with very little LHactivity. Read more...