Current Women's Health Reviews - Volume 8, Issue 2, 2012

In this issue there is a combined effort of four European Departments of Gynecological Health in Greece, Romania and Scotland to approach the very interesting and still under research issue of endometriosis. In the beginning, N. Tsabazis try to give us an overview of pathogenesis and pathophysiology. Although pathogenesis and the mechanisms of pathophysiology are still debatable, the author manages to give us up t Read More

Objective: This overview is aimed to summarize the pathogenic theories of endometriosis and to relate them to the various disease localizations and secondly, to sketch a pathophysiology model for the disease progress, namely the development of pain syndromes and subfertility. Materials-Methods: A yield of articles and reviews in Medline using key words in various combinations such as endometriosis, inflammatory mediat Read More

Objective: To assess any possible adverse effects of endometriosis on pregnancy outcome and complications, as well as in the postpartum period. Study Design: A systematic review of the literature. Data Sources: We searched all publications in Pubmed, Scopus and the Cochrane Library with the key words endometriosis, pregnancy outcome, preeclampsia, preterm birth, small-for gestational age babies (SGA) and postpartum. Read More

Objective: We review the surgical modalities used in the treatment of endometriosis, including ablative, excisional and denervating. Design: A systematic review of the literature referring to the surgical treatment of endometriosis with emphasis on articles published since 2000. Data sources: Medline, MeSH and Cochrane library searches for terms including “endometriosis”, “ablation”, “excision”, “denervation”, “pelvic Read More

Objective: This review discusses the general principles on which classic and novel approaches in the pharmacotherapy of endometriosis are based and presents the types of drugs involved. Design: Review article. Data sources: Relevant studies were retrieved from Pubmed, Scopus and ISI -Web of knowledge databases. Eligibility criteria: All articles in English, French, German and Danish languages that contained the following key Read More

Objective: Endometriosis has been suspected of playing a role in the etiology of ovarian cancer. Design: This systematic review addresses the parallels and specific relationship of endometriosis and gynecological cancer regarding risk factors, histological data, genetic alterations, aberrant activation of oncogenic and antiapoptotic pathways, and options in clinical diagnosis. Data sources and eligibility criteria: We have perfor Read More

The purpose of this article is to review the current knowledge, and recommendations for screening infectious diseases during pregnancy to improve maternal, fetal and newborn health. We examined studies and public health policies published in English language to identify which tests and in which situations recommendations are being made. Universal prenatal screening with at least one test for syphilis, human immun Read More

In the developing countries, an estimated 2.5 million children under the age of 15 were living with HIV in 2009, and there were some 370 000 new HIV paediatric infections. Nearly all of these new infections could have been avoided with effective prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) interventions. Any intervention dispensed with, mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) rates range from 15-30% without breastfee Read More

Recurrent cystitis is common among pre-menopausal, healthy, non-pregnant women. Each episode of urinary tract infection (UTI) results in loss of working hours and quality of personal life. Most of recurrent UTIs are caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC). Its infectivity is in part due to the acquisition of pilli with an adhesin for mannose-containing receptors of the bladder. UTI-prone women are believed to have a com Read More