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The results of the polymerase chain reaction studies performed in 2006-2008 were used to make a retrospective analysis of the detection of urogenital herpesvirus infections in reproductive-aged women constituting the urban population of the central region of Russia. The study used both monotarget an...
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PMID: 20886722
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We carried out a retrospective case-note review of all cases of hepatitis C diagnosed in 2008 to determine whether a significant number of these cases would have been missed if screening was targeted at high-risk groups. Twenty-three cases of hepatitis C were diagnosed from approximately 30,000 scre...
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PMID: 20852201
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A 31-year-old woman with Youssef syndrome was reported. Vesicouterine fistula is responsible for the symptoms of Youssef syndrome. An easy and feasible diagnostic method of vesicouterine fistula is sonohysterography.
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PMID: 19894015
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ED physicians should obtain sexual histories on patients with genitourinary symptoms. Both primary care and ED clinicians should consistently test for STIs in sexually active patients who have genitourinary symptoms. Physicians in both settings should have a low threshold for testing and empirically...
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PMID: 19643640
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In the 2007 American Heart Association guidelines, gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary (GU) procedures were removed from the indications for infective endocarditis (IE) prophylaxis. The purpose of this study was to estimate the contribution of GI and GU procedures to the occurrence of IE in orde...
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PMID: 20085430
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One such agent whose epidemiologic characteristics parallel those of gastroschisis is Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Primary EBV infection in early childhood has been decreasing over time, leaving a greater proportion of adolescents at risk, as reflected by increased rates of infectious mononucleosis ove...
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PMID: 19937602
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This review discusses the current and emerging techniques in urinary tract imaging. Recent technical advances and novel discoveries make this an exciting but challenging time for urinary tract imaging. The first section describes the imaging of the adrenal gland which has made great strides in the l...
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PMID: 20622393
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to define main differential diagnostic criteria for arthritides of chlamydial and pseudotuberculous etiology and to improve patient examination tactics.
Forty-six patients with pseudotuberculosis and 41 patients with chronic urogenital chlamydial infection with articu...
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PMID: 21381351
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There is a significant association between genitourinary infection and childhood epilepsy, and the impact appears to be greater in children of women with epilepsy. This finding has implications for prenatal care of women with epilepsy as well as for research on antenatal risk factors for child epile...
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PMID: 20051695
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GU/STI quality performance improvement in Barbados requires rapid laboratory diagnosis, standardized data formats with prompt expedited partner notification and treatment appointments and use of recommended algorithm that can half the cost of medication. Genitourinary medicine should be strategized...
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PMID: 20441069
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Chronic pelvic pain is a significant problem in gynaecology, as the causes often cannot be found by a general gynaecologic examination. Subsequently, the women often consult various physicians without a right and precise diagnosis being made. Thus, it is necessary to find a possibility for how to he...
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PMID: 19908952
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Symptomatic urethral infection and lower abdominal pain was less common in women with nvCT as compared to wtCT. Infection with nvCT was more frequently asymptomatic suggesting a possible difference in virulence between the nvCT strain and the wtCT strain....
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PMID: 19617866
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Robotic surgery has evolved from an investigational surgical approach to a clinically useful adjunct in multiple surgical specialties over the past decade. Advocates of robotic-assisted gynecologic surgery revere the system's wristed instrumentation, ergonomic positioning, and three-dimensional high...
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PMID: 19415063
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Biofilms represent a cohesive matrix of microrganisms and other cellular constituents that might be present in any natural environment. Microrganisms able to produce biofilms undergo a number of distinctive and typical phenomenon, such as adhesiveness on infected cellular surfaces that consequently...
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PMID: 19696556
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Urogenital mycoplasmas and ureaplasmas were significantly more common in patients from the study group (40%) compared with the control group (27.5%). Mycoplasma hominis and M. genitalium were demonstrated only in a few cases. Ureaplasma parvum was isolated predominantly, but Ureaplasma urealyticum w...
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PMID: 19300187
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There were 101 male and 164 female patients (sex ratio M/F = 0.61) ranging in age from 2 to 84 years (mean age = 38.7). In our series, hydatid cysts involved mainly the kidney (24.1%), the central nervous system (22.6%), the liver (19.6%) and the spleen (11.3%). The other less frequent sites include...
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PMID: 19522445
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Our findings support universal chlamydia testing of young women detainees. The high prevalence of unprotected anal sex highlights an important modifiable HIV risk behavior in these adolescents. Risk factors reported here should inform the integration of prevention and treatment services in correctio...
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PMID: 18209687
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Of the 178 women who underwent surgery, 46 completed the postoperative questionnaires. Mean age of this group was 45 years (range, 20-67), and mean preoperative BMI was 45 kg/m(2) (range, 35-75). The prevalence of PFD symptoms improved from 87% before surgery to 65% after surgery (P = 0.02, 95% CI:...
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PMID: 19106678
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There were no statistical differences comparing saddle pressure between the two trunk positions for women. For men a statistical difference between the trunk positions for the saddle with a hole was found. Thus, the trunk forwards shift seems to affect the values of saddle pressure only for men usin...
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PMID: 19172089
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We determined in a mouse animal model the capability of Lactobacillus paracasei CRL 1289, a human vaginal strain with probiotic properties, to prevent the vaginal colonization of a uropathogenic strain of Staphylococcus aureus. Six-week-old female BALB/c mice, synchronized in their estral cycle, wer...
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PMID: 17485818
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C. trachomatis was detected in blood by using 2 tests (culture and PCR) in 95.2% of patients with confirmed Chlamydia infection. Chlamydia isolated from blood had infectious properties that could point to the presence of weakly studied hematogenic route of dissemination of C. trachomatis in host's o...
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PMID: 19718830
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Urogenital aging and female sexual dysfunction (FSD) are significant problems following menopause. Estrogen decline is one of the key factors contributing to sexual functioning because of its crucial role for genital arousal (vasocongestion and lubrication) and other domains of the sexual response....
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PMID: 19811254
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OBJECTIVE: The educational objectives of this continuing medical education activity are for the reader to exercise, self-assess, and improve skills in diagnostic radiology with regard to the interpretation of MRI of the female pelvis in the evaluation of pelvic floor dysfunction, and to improve fami...
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PMID: 19018050
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to review the anatomy and etiology of pelvic floor weakness in women and to discuss the role of MRI in the assessment of female pelvic floor dysfunction. CONCLUSION: In women with pelvic floor weakness, pelvic MRI, with its superior soft-tissue contrast reso...
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PMID: 19018049
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As chemical molecules, these drugs were shown to exert potential nonerectogenic beneficial effects. They showed efficacy as a useful adjunct in the management of pulmonary hypertension. Additional uses were extended to different utilities: essential hypertension, benign prostatic hyperplasia, gastro...
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PMID: 18761597
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I represents a quantitative deficiency and type II a qualitative deficiency. It appears that hypoplasminogenaemia (type I deficiency) is the type most associated with pseudomembrane disease. A variety of genetic mutations has been identified recently and is reported to lead to these disorders. These...
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PMID: 19141167
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There were 78,577 hysterectomies performed for benign reasons from 1981 to 2003. Procedure-related haemorrhage (2.4%) was the most commonly recorded complication, followed by genitourinary disorders (1.9%), infection (1.6%) and urinary tract infections (1.6%). Vaginal hysterectomy was associated wit...
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PMID: 19035986
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Methicillin resistant S. aureus has become the predominant organism causing pediatric superficial genitourinary abscesses at our institution, accounting for three-quarters of all surgically managed infections in the last 2 years. Methicillin resistant S. aureus was more common at the groin and genit...
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PMID: 18710758
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We examined the course and outcome of Chlamydia muridarum genital infection in mice genetically deficient in the receptor for type I IFNs (IFNAR(-/-) mice). A significant reduction in chlamydial shedding and duration of lower genital tract infection was observed in IFNAR(-/-) mice in comparison to t...
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PMID: 18663004
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The study was carried out in symptomatic and asymptomatic women attending peripheral health centres to determine the laboratory prevalence of sexually transmitted infection (STI), reproductive tract infection (RTI) and HIV. A total of 4090 women in four study groups were subjected to general and spe...
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PMID: 18081951
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There is a low rate of intraoperatory and 6 months after the repair in the reconstructive surgery of pelvic floor for the urogenital prolapses using polypropylene meshes, which makes this technique a secure and effective option for the treatment of this problem....
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PMID: 19013981
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Ultrasonography (US) was applied in this community-based study in northern Madagascar to compare urogenital findings in Schistosoma haematobium-positive individuals (105 women and 116 men) from the high-endemic Sirama village, with urinary egg negative controls (100 women and 108 men) from the neigh...
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PMID: 18472119
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We show urogenital tract isolates representing the most common PIA VR types identified in an urban clinic in Baltimore, MD, over a 10-year period belonged to several different clonal types, as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Serum resistance, which was confirmed by factor H an...
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PMID: 18541655
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Diverse studies demonstrate an association between Mycoplasma genitalium and urogenital pathologies. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of M. genitalium in patients attending gynecological evaluation in private clinics (n = 172). DNA amplification assays of the genes 16S rRNA an...
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PMID: 18769771
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We introduce an endoscopic extraperitoneal approach for implanting an artificial urinary sphincter. Two women (ages 22 and 79 years) underwent endoscopic extraperitoneal implantation of the AMS 800 artificial sphincter. In both cases, neurogenic bladder disease was the underlying cause of ISD. The e...
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PMID: 18461299
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The activity of moxifloxacin was compared with that of other antimicrobial agents against 54 strains of Ureaplasma spp., 54 strains of Mycoplasma hominis, 14 strains of Mycoplasma genitalium, and 44 strains of Chlamydia trachomatis. Moxifloxacin inhibited 90% of all isolates at a concentration =1...
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PMID: 18727805
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A history of anal intercourse should be sought in patients with unexplained genito-urinary symptoms....
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PMID: 18634737
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The case notes of cases of genital chlamydial infection were audited against the UK National Guideline. This was the first web-based and the largest national audit to date, with 193 clinics in all UK Regions contributing data. About half of all cases had no symptoms, with about one-third attending f...
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PMID: 18574119
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We recommend that GU medicine services and SARC work in partnership to improve the care of victims of sexual assault who access general GU medicine services....
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PMID: 18574123
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Verbal information-giving is good, but only half of cases were reportedly given written information on chlamydia. Follow-up by 'phoning or texting (43%) was as common as follow-up in clinics (39%). About one-fourth of cases did not have follow up, with no recall for around 60% of these cases. Advice...
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PMID: 18574120
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There was a wide range of activity and chlamydial diagnoses between the 177 clinics that responded. Most (92%) clinics have nucleic acid tests for chlamydial diagnosis. Different practitioners largely share roles in providing advice to patients about partner notification, treatment adherence, safer...
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PMID: 18574121
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In the original clinical trial, 844 women infected with HIV-1 and 842 women not infected with HIV-1 were enrolled. Of 31 women who experienced seroconversion during 12 months, 27 were matched with 54 seroprevalent and 54 seronegative women. The estimated median plasma virus set point was 4.45 log(10...
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PMID: 18462100
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In this nonrandomized, prospective analysis surgically treated patients with pelvic floor dysfunction had higher 1-year self-described complete goal attainment and satisfaction scores compared with patients treated nonsurgically. Goal attainment scores correlated with disease specific quality of lif...
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PMID: 18423762
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IBS patients present with a twofold increase in somatic comorbidities compared to controls, possibly caused by common pathophysiological mechanisms. Nevertheless, to date, there has been no convincing evidence for a consolidated underlying pathophysiology or somatization. Gastrointestinal disorders,...
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PMID: 18501257
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We present a study of genitourinary and obstetric complications in TNX-deficient women of reproductive age. We have found complications, such as uterus prolapses, that are in agreement with previous findings in other EDS types. In TNX knockout (KO) mice, we have observed mild pregnancy-related abnor...
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PMID: 18335242
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