ABSTRACT
The P-C test was performed on 296 unselected women to verify if its parameters were all useful for a screening program: the 0-5 contraction strength score resulted unnecessarily too elaborated, a linear relationship was always seen between muscular endurance and contraction strength, muscular exhaustion was never detected during the testing, antagonist muscular synergies were observed only in some of the patients with low contraction strength score; marked agonist synergies were never detected. For screening purpose therefore could be sufficient to evaluate only the contraction strength identifying three levels of its activity: no activity, low activity, good activity.
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Mass Screening/methods , Muscle Contraction , Pelvis/physiology , Biomechanical Phenomena , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Female , HumansSubject(s)
Urinary Incontinence/prevention & control , Adult , Female , Humans , Menopause , Middle Aged , Pelvis/physiopathology , Physical Therapy Modalities , PrognosisABSTRACT
Two women with vesico-uterine fistulae causing amenorrhoea and cyclic hematuria were successfully treated by the continuous administration of an oestrogen-progestogen combination for six months.
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Amenorrhea/chemically induced , Contraceptives, Oral, Combined/administration & dosage , Contraceptives, Oral/administration & dosage , Fistula/drug therapy , Urinary Bladder Fistula/drug therapy , Uterine Diseases/drug therapy , Adult , Female , HumansABSTRACT
The correction of a total or partial vaginal prolapse after hysterectomy is often difficult to perform, particularly when the possibility of sexual intercourse must be preserved. A method of vaginal retropubic colpopexy is proposed. In addition to preserving the vaginal functionality, it can be performed for preventive purposes during hysterectomy for uterine prolapse or conspicuous cystorectocele and finally, it corrects the topographic modification of the bladder and of the urethra. This method has had excellent results on 18 patients and relapse has not occurred after two or three years.
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Uterine Prolapse/surgery , Vagina/surgery , Female , Humans , Hysterectomy/adverse effects , Methods , Uterine Prolapse/etiologySubject(s)
Fetus/diagnostic imaging , Female , Fetus/physiology , Gestational Age , Humans , Pregnancy , RadiographyABSTRACT
A case hydatidiform mole with coexistent living fetus is presented and the steps by which the diagnosis was reached are given prominence. The diagnosis in utero of an intact hydatidiform mole with associated fetus is extremely difficult, and the author thinks that the most useful diagnostic means for this rare situation is amniography.
