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C Belloni

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Factors associated with climacteric symptoms in women around menopause attending menopause clinics in Italy.

OBJECTIVE: To obtain data on correlates of climacteric symptoms in women around menopause attending menopause clinics in Italy. METHODS: Since 1997 a large cross sectional study has been conducted on the characteristics of women around menopause attending a network of first level menopause outpatient's clinics in Italy. A total of 66,501 (mean age 54.4 years) women are considered in the present paper. RESULTS: The odds ratios of moderate and severe hot flashes/night sweats were lower in more educated women and (for severe symptoms only) in women reporting regular physical activity. Depression, difficulty to sleep, forgetfulness and irritability tended to be less frequent in more educated women and (depression only) in women reporting regular physical activity. Parous women reported more frequently these symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: This large study confirms in Southern European population that low education, body mass index and low physical activity are associated with climacteric symptoms. Parous women are at greater risk of psychological symptoms.

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Endometrial metastases from gastric adenocarcinoma: a case report.

Embolic metastases to the endometrium are unusual, especially from extragenital cancers. Metastases in the uterine corpus are generally detected at autopsy. We describe a patient with abnormal vaginal bleeding in whom endometrial metastases from an inoperable gastric tumor were discovered in hysteroscopic biopsy specimens.

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[Trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome): two case reports].

Edwards (or trisomy 18) syndrome, with a frequency of about 1 over 8000 births, is commonly characterized by a very short survival; those rare cases reported with ages of 12 months or more, always were demonstrated to be chromosomic mosaicisms. Two affected children with completely different outcomes are here described; the first with a classic short-life evolution, in opposition to the second with long survival, the last a good example of all those various biological, psychological and social support interventions in these circumstances, very rare to match with, for this appears to be a trisomy 18 without mosaicism.

Chromosome Aberrations↗
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[Large colpohematometra with bilateral hematosalpinx resulting from progressive obstruction caused by incomplete vaginal septum].

Complete or incomplete transverse vaginal septum is a rare malformation of the female genital tract. Usually the complete congenital type occurs at puberty because of the collection of menstrual blood above the septum with amenorrhea and cyclic lower abdominal pain as presenting symptoms. On the contrary, in the case shown by the authors, the subacute epilogue occurred in the perimenopausal phase: a very large colpohematometra is reported in a 49 years old woman, with an incomplete vaginal septum resulting in progressive obstruction. The association between this malformation and the presence of endometriotic localizations in the genital tract, as reported by other authors, is interesting. In this case, endometriosis can be secondary to the presence of the septum or could have determined the impairment of the obstruction in consequence of the associated status of chronic flogosis.

Fallopian Tube Diseases↗
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[Hepatitis B: is the current vaccination policy the correct one everywhere?].

In this study we have tried to examine retrospectively all the babies born to HBsAg + mothers in the past nine years, in order to evaluate which is the real incidence of perinatal transmission of HBsAg, and then if the actual politic to vaccinate only these babies is right and sufficient. The results demonstrate that the perinatal transmission is not a major problem in our country, so we suggest that for improvement of public health is more advised the vaccination of all infants: those born to HBsAg + mothers at the birth, the others in the third month of life.

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