Mary Anne Armstrong

observational 2024

Advanced Image-Guided Percutaneous Technique Versus Advanced Laparoscopic Surgical Technique for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Placement

Kidney medicine ·doi:10.1016/j.xkme.2023.100744

RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Timely placement of a functional peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter is crucial to long-term PD success. Advanced image-guided percutaneous and advanced laparoscopic techniques both represent best practice catheter plac…

nonrandomized-trial 2022

Demographic, Reproductive, and Medical Risk Factors for Intrauterine Device Expulsion

Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/aog.0000000000005000

OBJECTIVE: To explore to what extent intrauterine device (IUD) expulsion is associated with demographic and clinical risk factors. METHODS: The APEX-IUD (Association of Perforation and Expulsion of IntraUterine Devices) study was a U.S. co…

observational 2006

Hysterectomy rates for benign indications

Obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1097/01.aog.0000210640.86628.ff

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the annual rates, types, and indications for hysterectomies performed for benign disease in Kaiser Permanente Northern California from 1994 to 2003. METHODS: All women, 20 years or age or older, who were undergoin…

observational 2006

Hysterectomy Rates for Benign Indications

·doi:10.1097/01.ogx.0000234637.59949.aa

More than 600,000 hysterectomies are done each year, making this the most common major nonobstetric operation performed on women in the United States. This study was an attempt to determine annual rates, types, and indications for hysterect…