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T Tagliaferri

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[Water birth. Clinical and practical advice].

Water labor and/or birth are more and more requested and with the increased number of pregnant women choosing water-birth it is necessary to define advice for a safe use of this method of birth-assistance, in order to prevent any possible connected complication. The criteria for admission or exclusion to water labor and/or birth, correlated with maternal-fetal clinical aspects, hygienic aspects, legal-medicine aspects, are indicated. The structural, technical, organizing, specific requirements, in addition those of every delivery room, and considered important for water birth places, are underlined.

Delivery, Obstetric↗

[Ferti-test. A simple method for tubal function diagnosis: feasibility study].

BACKGROUND: To indicate the simplicity and the feasibility of this new diagnostic technique for infertility investigation. Ferti-test is a technique which combines dye-test and pelvic post coital test, using inexpensive surgical material. Ferti-test allows to perform laparoscopy only in very necessary cases, without loosing diagnostic quality. METHODS: Up to September 2001, 30 patients aged from 24 to 46 years, with infertile problems were enrolled. All the patients, in a preovulatory period, underwent dye-test combined with pPCT. Before the operation, all the patients were investigated for endocrinological assessment; an evaluation of sperm liquid in all the partners and a PCT have been carried out. All these data were organized in a specific diagram, which allowed to recognize the normality or the specific class of pathology of infertile couple. RESULTS: The purpose of this study is to remark the simplicity and the feasibility of this new diagnostic method. In our study, no patients who underwent dye-test and pelvic PCT had any complications. Only 7 patients with negative dye-test and pelvic PCT underwent diagnostic laparoscopy. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study indicate that Ferti-test is an effective and reliable technique for the first level evaluation in infertile couples. Ferti-test is well tolerated and requires minimal cost. With Ferti-test it is possible to screen the patients who actually need laparoscopy and to reduce risks and costs.

Adult↗

Uterine changes during tamoxifen therapy.

Tamoxifen used for adjuvant therapy in breast cancer, has a complex and unclear action on endometrium and myometrium. Many authors demonstrated endometrial proliferous changes in peri and post menopausal women. Our study shows the development of myomas in three patients without uterine pathology before tamoxifen therapy, and the increase of a polip and a myoma after tamoxifen therapy. Moreover, we observed the development of a myoma in a patient after one year tamoxifen in association with LH-RH analogue therapy. It is necessary to continue our study with a larger number of patients to assess the hyperplasic effect of tamoxifen.

Adult↗

[Carcinoma of the vulva: our experience].

The Authors report their experience on the vulvar carcinoma therapy. Patients showed, with high frequency, hypertension and diabetes. The 25.9% of the patients, furthermore, were obese. The surgery was the primary treatment, combined with chemiotherapy and radiotherapy in selected cases. The survival rate was 80% in I stage, while in the III and IV stage was very low, in spite of the use of chemotherapy.

Adenocarcinoma↗