Increasing gestational weight gain is associated with an increased rate of cesarean delivery following labor induction.

The utility of an absorbable adhesion barrier for adhesion prevention at time of primary cesarean section was investigated by reporting on the incidence of subsequent adhesion formation as well as adhesion severity at first repeat cesarean comparing a �barrier group� to a �nonbarrier� group.

Higher body mass index is associated with endometrial hyperplasia as compared with women with proliferative endometrium and abnormal bleeding.

Women ? 35 years are much more likely to undergo invasive testing for chromosomal abnormalities as compared with younger women at similar levels of adjusted risk

Women with self-reported chronic pelvic pain have pelvic floor muscle tenderness without weakness, suggesting a need for greater pelvic floor muscle examination standardization in chronic pelvic pain.

Fear regarding the cause of pain symptoms among women with chronic pelvic pain is associated with more severe pain experience, suffering and clinical morbidity.

The validity of women�s reporting of behaviors during the periconception window achieved only moderate validity. Efforts to capture information prospectively should be promoted.

A study of recurrent vulvovaginitis revealed a prevalence of mycoplasma of 1.3%, ureaplasma 15.1%, and both cultures positive 4.4%.

Myomectomy of large asymptomatic myomas does not improve future obstetric and delivery outcomes, indicating that most asymptomatic myomas should be managed conservatively in women still considering childbearing.

Advanced age, at least up to age 49 and possibly beyond, does not seem to reduce the chance of embryo implantation.

Ambulatory women with transverse myelitis and urinary retention may be successfully treated with sacral neuromodulation, while assisted ambulatory women did not produce significant voiding.

Mindfulness meditation is a feasible complementary intervention for women with pelvic pain.

This study found a low incidence of poor neonatal outcome in mothers with immune thrombocytopenic purpura, therefore obstetric intervention based solely on their platelet count is not justified and theroutine use of cesarean section is not recommended.

Plasmapheresis led to rapid recovery after a diagnosis of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in a woman who underwent suction dilation and curettage for molar pregnancy.

Retained suture from a cervical cerclage can act as a nidus for bladder stone formation.

Although female adnexal tumor of probable Wolffian origin is typically thought to be a benign lesion, it has the potential for malignant behavior, necessitating long-term follow-up.

A parturient with borderline adequate clinical pelvimetry suffered severe shoulder dystocia, even with a small-for-gestational-age infant.

A case of delivery via a deliberate posterior low transverse hysterotomy incision in an irreducible term gravid uterus in 180� of torsion is presented.