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G Garozzo

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PubMed1992

Labour management. Our experience.

We report a retrospective analysis of 1202 deliveries assisted by the same medical team, evaluating the clinical management of labour and the resulting type of delivery. Examination of the data revealed a gradual reduction in the number of deliveries treated pharmacologically accompanied by a reduction in the incidence of operative deliveries from 16% to 6%. Statistical analysis of the data using X2 test demonstrated a clear correlation between the administration of oxytocin and the incidence of operative deliveries (p less than or equal to 0.001). We believe that the indiscriminate use of oxytocin in labour should be avoided and that the pharmacological and operative management of labour requires precise clinical indications.

Adult↗
PubMed1991

[Breast feeding and pleasure].

Thirty-six Sicilian women (mean age 26.2 years, range 18-34) who had chosen to breastfeed their newborn babies were included in the study. A semi-structured questionnaire was used by a pediatrician to interview all subjects 4 months after the birth. 94.7% of the women interviewed (36 cases) said that they had derived pleasure from breastfeeding while 5.3% (2 cases) stated that they had not. 44.7% (15 cases) experienced strong uterine contractions (described ad "cramps") during breastfeeding (these were described as occurring "often" in ten cases and "rarely" in five cases); in 6 (35.3%) out of 17 patients "uterine cramps" were a cause of "pleasure", whereas in the rest (64.7%) they were described as "bothersome" (5 cases), "painful" (2 cases) or "indifferent" (4 cases). If sexual pleasure is derived from the breastfeeding one's offspring, it may be to a certain extent represent, together with the joy of bringing up children, a compensatory substitute for the couple's sex life following the change of the woman's centre of attention from the sexual pole to that of the continuation of the species.

Breast Feeding↗
PubMed1989

Sex during prepregnancy period. A study of 106 pluriparous women in relation to parity.

The authors study the correlation between sexual activity and parity in 106 pluriparous Sicilian women divided into 3 groups with parity, respectively, of 1 (57 cases), 2 (29 cases), and greater than or equal to 3 (20 cases). Sexual desire, frequency of coitus and orgasm, type of extracoital activity, preferred position during coitus, the partner who took the first initiative in sexual activity, and the contraceptive methods used were studied. The results show that in women of parity greater than or equal to 3 there is a significantly lower frequency of very frequent coitus, higher frequency of extravaginal sexual activity, and that the male more frequently took the first initiative in sexual intercourse.

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PubMed1989

[Changes in the psychophysical experience of orgasm in pregnancy].

A semistructured questionnaire was used as the basis for an examination of qualitative and quantitative changes in orgasm among 200 pregnant women brought to term. The frequency of orgasm gradually diminished over the 9 months in most women, only occasionally increasing. A total of 149 women (79.5%) said they had felt no pain during orgasm, 20.5% reported increased pleasure or incomplete post-orgasmic resolution. It should be pointed out that none of the women had experienced painful orgasm prior to their pregnancy.

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PubMed1985

Ultrasounds examination during polychemotherapy for ovarian cancer.

The usefulness of ultrasound diagnosis during polychemotherapy for ovarian cancer is valued. Between September 1980 and March 1983, 32 patients with ovarian cancer underwent polychemotherapy, had an ultrasound follow-up. Ultrasounds are very important for selecting the patients who must undergo second look.

Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols↗
PubMed1985

Polychemotherapeutic treatment for ovarian carcinoma (our experience).

Since September 1980 to June 1983 we have treated 32 patients with ovarian cancer. Most patients were submitted to time polychemotherapy cyclophosphamide, adriamycin and cis-platinum. The maximum of survival time was 24 months; six patients died; the period of survival of the remaining 24 patients is between 2 and months.

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[Survey of the frequency of routine diagnostic tests in term pregnancies].

In 420 pregnant women who delivered during the third trimester at the "Istituto di I Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica", University of Catania, routine blood tests were performed in 95.5% of cases (401 women), urine tests in 95.5% (401), Hb-phoresis in 42.6% (179), HBsAg in 51.4% (216), TORCH and urine cultures in 37.8% (159), cardiotocograph in 73.1% (307), plasma RIA of E3 and/or HPL in 35% (147), maternal ECG and pseudocholinesterasemia in 83.6% (351) and 37.6% (158) respectively. No routine diagnostic tests were performed in 4.5% (19 women) of cases. Diagnostic tests are less frequently performed in women, plurigravida, and in pregnancies which follow a physiological course. Several diagnostic tests, except for TCTG and HBsAg, are performed more frequently in pregnancies with complications. Lastly, there is a marked difference between the number of diagnostic tests performed and the individual woman's place of residence.

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[Cancer and pregnancy. Retrospective study on the frequency in 57,393 deliveries].

Between 1950 and 1984 out of 57.393 women who delivered at the First Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Catania University Medical School, Catania, Italy, 40 cases of malignant neoplasia were diagnosed with an incidence of one case in 1.434 deliveries. The most frequent neoplasias is cervix carcinoma (21 cases; 52.5%), followed by breast cancer (6 cases; 15%), ovarian cancer (4 cases; 10%) and leukemia (4 cases; 10%). There was very rare association with Hodgkin disease (2 cases; 5%), osteosarcoma (1 case; 2.5%), medulloblastoma (1 case; 2.5%), and skin melanoma (1 case; 2.5%). Since cancer of the uterine cervix is the most frequent neoplasia (one cases out of 2.733 deliveries), cervical smear should be performed during pregnancy in women that never performed it.

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