Volume 51, Number 2, February 2006

  Editorial
73
Lawrence D. Devoe, M.D.
 
 
 


  Original Articles
75
Sean L. Francis, M.D., and Robert Stager, M.D.
This article reviews procedures designed to repair apical vaginal prolapse and introduces a minimally invasive technique.
 
 


83
Terry S. Dunn, M.D., Amy Weaver, M.D. Doug Wolf, Ph.D., and William Goodard, M.D.
When there is a concerted effort to perform vaginal hysterectomies in lieu of abdominal ones in a residency program, the number can increase without increasing the complication rate.
 
 


87
Serdar Dilbaz, M.D., Eray Caliskan, M.D., Berna Dilbaz, M.D., Ozlem Degirmenci, M.D., and Ali Haberal, M.D.
A risk scoring system, including day 3 b-human chorionic gonadotropin levels, can predict tubal rupture after methotrexate treatment.
 
 


94
Carole B. Rudra, M.P.H., Michelle A. Williams, Sc.D., Ihunnaya O. Frederick, M.P.H., and David A. Luthy, M.D.
The preeclampsia risk increased in women who experienced asthma symptoms during pregnancy, particularly those with long-term asthma.
 
 


101
V�ctor Hugo Gonz�lez-Quintero, M.D., M.P.H., Dolly Katz, Ph.D., Indra Pandya-Smith, M.P.H., Lama Tolaymat, M.D., M.P.H., and Mary Jo O'Sullivan, M.D.
More than 1 in 10 newborns in Florida's largest county receive inadequate prophylaxis against hepatitis B virus because of lapses in adherence to national prophylaxis recommendations.
 
 


109
Andrea Ries Thurman, M.D., Patricia L. Litts, M.D., Kathleen O'Rourke, Ph.D., and Steven Swift, M.D.
Patients who are black, are new to the office, are scheduled to see a junior physician or present with a vaginal discharge are more likely to decline medical students' participation in the visit.
 
 


115
Eyal Sheiner, M.D., Asnat Walfisch, M.D., Mordechai Hallak, M.D., Shlomit Harlev, R.N., Moshe Mazor, M.D., and Ilana Shoham-Vardi, Ph.D.
Prolonged second stage of labor was a risk factor for spontaneous perineal damage during vaginal delivery.
 
 


120
Agnieszka Sobczy�nska-Tomaszewska, Ph.D., Daniel B�ak, M.Sc., Jan Karol Wolski, M.D., Leszek Bablok, M.D., Magdalena Nawara, M.Sc., Tadeusz Mazurczak, M.D., and Jerzy Bal, Ph.D.
Defects occurred in the CFTR gene and AZF locus in azoospermia and cryptozoospermia patients but not in oligoasthenoteratozoospermia patients.
 
 


128
Mohsen Janghorbani, Ph.D., Elizabeth Stenhouse, Ph.D., Raymond B. Jones, Ph.D., F.F.P.H., and Ann Millward, M.D., F.R.C.P.
As compared to that in other European and North American studies, the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus in women in Plymouth, U.K., was lower.
 
 


  Case Reports
135
Reem S. Abu-Rustum, M.D., Sameer E. Abu-Rustum, M.D., Basma K. Abdo, M.D., and Michel H. Jamal, M.D.
Detection and repair of inner myometrial lacerations at laparotomy helped avoid a hysterectomy.
 
 


138
Mohamed N. Akl, M.D., and Abdelaziz A. Saleh, M.D., Ph.D.
Absence of oligohydramnios in monoamniotic twins facilitates early prenatal diagnosis of sirenomelia and delays the sirenomelia infant's death after delivery.
 
 


141
Kristen Page, M.D., Kelly Pagidas, M.D., Mary C. Derosa, M.D., and M. Ruhul Quddus, M.D.
A woman underwent salpingo-oophorectomy for a painful cystic ovarian enlargement ultimately diagnosed as eosinophilic perifolliculitis.