British medical journal (Clinical research ed.)

Treatment with buserelin, an agonist of luteinising hormone releasing hormone, and human menopausal gonadotrophin was compared with the conventional treatment of clomiphene citrate and human menopausal gonadotrophin in the outcome of in vit…

10% of maternal deaths, and the reported mortality is as high as 80% in some series.2 Amniotic fluid embolism may occur after diagnostic amniocentesis, but this is uncommon. It is more likely to occur after hypertonic saline or dextrose is …

Results from a continuing clinical trial in benign breast disease indicate that danazol may induce progesterone receptors and that this effect persists after treatment. In women given danazol the number of biopsy specimens that were positiv…

Erythrocytosis induced by danazol in an anephric patient An anephric patient undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis developed erythrocytosis after treatment of menorrhagia with danazol; this was associated with a high serum im…

A new drug, gestrinone, was subjected to the first double blind, randomised placebo controlled trial of any treatment of endometriosis. The disease deteriorated in eight (47%) of the 17 patients prescribed placebo (95% confidence limits 23%…

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The relation between asymptomatic endometriosis and infertility was investigated in a randomised double blind placebo controlled trial of the impact of treating the endometriosis with gestrinone. The 12 month cumulative conception rate in t…

A study was performed to assess the incidence of previous hysterectomy and dilatation and curettage among women with primary biliary cirrhosis. In 87 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis hysterectomy or dilatation and curettage had been …