Clomiphene Citrate versus Letrozole for Induction of Ovulation in Infertile women having Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (Randomized Controlled Trial) | Author : Abdel Rahman Mohammed Saleh | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome is a disorder but with unclear etiology that its diagnosis depends on exclusion of other etiologies with ovulatory disorders and androgen excess as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, 21-hydroxylase deficient non classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (NCAH), adrenal or ovarian androgen-secreting tumors, disorders of adrenocortical dysfunction as Cushing’s disease, and abuse of androgenic or anabolic drugs. Polycystic ovary syndrome affects approximately 6-15% of women in reproductive age and constitutes 50% of the causes of infertility in women.
Aim of the Work: To compare the efficacy of letrozole on ovulation induction to that of clomiphene citrate in women suffering polycystic ovary syndrome and the effect on the follicular maturation, endometrial thickness and pregnancy rate. This study was carried in the outpatient infertility clinic of Ain-Shams Maternity Hospital during the period from November 2020 till April 2021.
Patients and Methods: This study included 80 infertile women diagnosed as having polycystic ovary syndrome. Women were randomized into two groups. Letrozole group (1) included 40 women who were given the aromatase inhibitor (Letrozole) orally in a 5mg dose daily from day 3 to day 7 of the menstrual cycle. While Clomiphene citrate group (2) included 40 women who were given the clomiphene citrate orally in 100mg dose daily from day 3 to day 7 of the menstrual cycle. All women were counseled and informed consent was obtained before recruitment.
Results: In this study, ovulation rate was significantly more frequent in the Letrozole group (82.5%, 33 women reached ovulation successfully) than in Clomiphene citrate group (60%, 24 women reached ovulation successfully) within P value=0.024. Clomiphene citrate at a dose of 100mg showed more efficacies in the number of follicle =18mm than Letrozole at a dose of 5mg. In Letrozole group, the number of follicles (=18mm in diameter) ranged from 1 to 2 with a Mean±SD= 1.4±0.65 and in Clomiphene citrate group, the number of follicles (=18mm in diameter) ranged from 1 to 3 with a Mean±SD= 1.9± 0.41 (P value=0.0001).
Conclusion: Letrozole can be considered as a first line treatment of anovulation in polycystic ovary syndrome. But, moreover studies including larger number of cases will further confirm the efficacy of letrozole versus clomiphene citrate in induction of ovulation, reaching to the optimum doses for aromatases inhibitors, more observation on endometrial thickness, incidence of pregnancy outcomes, incidence of abortion and incidence of congenital fetal malformations. |
| How Can We Treat Endometrial Polyp Without Using Curettage? | Author : Huang, W. L. | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Introduction: Endometrial polyps are considered begin tumours that protrude inside the uterine cavity. It affects women in reproductive or in menopausal age. It can regress spontaneously or if symptomatic, it can be treated efficiently by hysteroscopy excision.
Purpose: to demonstrate that endometrium polyps can be treated without using curettage but only using homeopathic medication without needing to do any invasive procedure.
Methods: through two case report (47 and 57 years-old women respectively, with endometrium polyps diagnosed by routine ultrasound). Both patients were programed to do hysteroscopy. They were doing acupuncture (for treatment of low back pain and pain in the shoulder respectively) using needles and mustard seeds. I decided to prescribe for both patients a homeopathy medication called Medorrhinum to treat their miasma. In both cases, they intake the medication first with 30CHXX-20 ml. After one month, the patients need to have the second round of this medication, now with 200CHXX-20 ml. After one month from the first medication, it was possible to intake the third medication, now in 1000CHXX-20 ml.
Results: the endometrial polyps disappeared completely after the intake of these medications in both patients without needing to use hysteroscopy exam.
Conclusion: the use of homeopathy medication called Medorrinun was very important to recover from the endometrium polyp without the necessity in using hysteroscopy exam and do the curettage.
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| Placenta Accreta Syndrome- A Calamitous Diagnosis | Author : Kanika Chopra, | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Increasing incidence of Placenta accrete syndrome has become a worrisome issue due to its associated life-threatening complications for both the mother and the fetus. The ideal management for PAS disorder remains the matter of debate still. The critical step in its effective management being its suspicion knowing the underlying risk factors and its diagnosis in antenatal period. Still, cesarean hysterectomy remains the gold standard procedure with many newer conservative approaches under evaluation. Our basic aim behind writing this review is to highlight the recent changes in classifying and diagnosing PAS owing to the ever-increasing incidence of this catastrophic entity. Also, it will emphasize the well-established role of radical over conservative management and also all modalities used in conservative management so far. |
| Perinatal Effects of Metformin use in Gestational Diabetes | Author : Karen Mireya Topa Pila, | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :Background: GD is a condition in which a woman develops glucose intolerance at any time during pregnancy and may or may not resolve at the end of pregnancy. Metformin, from the group of biguanides, is considered an alternative management of gestational diabetes, included in the list of essential medicines by the OMS.
Methodology: A narrative review was carried out through various databases from March 2018 to September 2021; the search and selection of articles was carried out in journals indexed in English and Spanish. The following keywords were used: metformin, macrosomia, gestational diabetes.
Results: The present review offers pathophysiological measures, complications, pharmacological therapy, for a better approach in perinatals in patients with gestational diabetes.
Conclusion: With the results observed, it should be noted that metformin is viable for the management of patients with gestational diabetes. |
| Studying a Series of Morphofunctional Index Values in Athletes of Reproductive age | Author : Konstantin Anatolyevich Bugaevsky | Abstract | Full Text | Abstract :The article presents the results of the study, the purpose of which was to determine and analyze the indicators of several morphofunctional index values, at the athletes of reproductive ages engaged in initially male sports, such as: heavy athletics, powerlifting, sambo struggle, boxing, pushing the kernel and hammer throwing. |
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