The freezing of amniotic fluid does not significantly affect the detection of phosphatidylglycerol by a rapid assay of fetal lung maturity.

Increased awareness of anemia in women hospitalized for gynecologic conditions associated with heavy uterine bleeding is warranted to identify opportunities to reduce blood transfusion and other medical resource use.

There is no question that the learning curve is steep, and refinements will be made in the timing, dosing and frequency of GnRH antagonist administration.

A multicenter, randomized, double-blind study revealed that French maritime pine bark extract significantly lowers the requirement for analgesic medication in dysmenorrhea.

Esophagogastroduodenoscopy in the first trimester of pregnancy is safe and helpful when performed in cases of vomiting and gastrointestinal bleeding.

Women with HIV infection should routinely be screened for depression during pregnancy because of the high prevalence of depressive symptomatology.

Prenatal administration of digoxin and sotalol can successfully reverse fetal hydrops due to tachyarrhythmias such as supraventricular tachycardia and allow successful pregnancy outcomes.

Use of rFVIIA in the acute management of radiation-induced hemorrhagic cystitis is controversial mainly because of expense and its role in intraoperative hemorrhage.

In a case of delayed hydronephrosis following anterior repair and a transobturator sling, intraoperative cystoscopy was not helpful.

Placement of cervical sutures and injection of a vasoconstrictor agent may achieve hemostasis until definitive management of a bleeding cervical pregnancy can be performed.

A young woman with primary pulmonary choriocarcinoma was successfully treated with surgical resection and combination chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy and local irradiation prolonged the survival of a patient who acquired a massive, inoperable chest wall tumor as a late metastasis of ovarian cancer.

Interstitial ectopic pregnancy can be medically treated successfully even if concurrent abdominal pathology requires surgical intervention.