Background: Official guideline "indications and methods of hysterectomy" to assign indications for the different methods published and coordinated by the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG), the Austrian Society of Gynecology…
Purpose: Official guideline published and coordinated by the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG). Positioning injuries after lengthy gynecological procedures are rare, but the associated complications can be potentially serio…
Iron deficiency with and without anaemia is a common cause of morbidity, particularly in women. Iron deficiency is generally the result of an imbalance between iron loss and iron absorption. In women with symptoms suspicious for iron defici…
Endometriosis is one of the frequent gynecological diseases in premenopausal women. The clinical diagnostics is difficult because symptoms of endometriosis are variable. The surgical removal of endometriosis is the primary therapeutic aim. …
A 37-year-old patient had recurring thromboses, occlusion of the left femoral vein with hereditary hyperhomocysteinemia, hypermenorrhea and anaemia. Conservative therapy with endometrium ablation and gestagene failed. A supracervical hyster…
OBJECTIVE: To assess the diagnostic value of maternal CA 125 in patients with symptomatic first trimester pregnancy and to evaluate the prognostic significance of CA 125 versus beta-hCG in early pregnancies with intact fetal heartbeat, comp…
Transvaginal hydrolaparoscopy (THL) was evaluated in comparison with the already established chromolaparoscopy in the detection of tubal factors, adhesions as well as endometriosis. 43 infertile patients without previous pelvic operations a…
Leptin is mainly synthesized by adipocytes and might represent the connecting link between fatty tissue and brain. In reference to reproduction, leptin resistance could play a role particularly in the pathogenesis of the PCO syndrome. Howev…
The use of a 1.2 mm microendoscope is compared to the conventional laparoscopy technique in this study. In 22 sterility patients and 23 patients suffering from chronic pelvic pain the high diagnostic value of the microendoscope is shown. On…
The anamnesis, the preoperative diagnostics, the laparoscopic findings, and the therapeutic management are reported of 303 patients who underwent laparoscopy because of chronic pelvic pain during the years of 1989 and 1993. The most common …