Objective To determine the association between endometrial thickness and endometrial histology in a large sample of women using HRT. Design Results from three multi-centre studies were combined. Participants Five hund...
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Objective To determine the association between endometrial thickness and endometrial histology in a large sample of women using HRT. Design Results from three multi-centre studies were combined. Participants Five hundred and sixty-four climacteric women were treated with either sequential, continuous combined or long-cycle therapy. Main outcome measures The women underwent 717 examinations with both transvaginal ultrasonography and histological examination of the endometrium. Endometrial thickness was measured and associated with the histological findings. Results Eight cases of endometrial hyperplasia were diagnosed. All the hyperplasias were simple without atypia. Two cases had an endometrial thickness < 4 mm and two a thickness > 8 mm. The > 4 mm threshold for abnormal endometrium had a sensitivity of 75%, a specificity of 47%, a positive predictive value of 2% and a negative predictive value of 99%. Conclusion No association could be found between the endometrial thickness measured by transvaginal ultrasonography and endometrial pathology. In six out of eight women with simple hyperplasia the endometrium measured > 4 mm.
Background: Anorexia nervosa is a disease of severe acquired undernutrition with a high and increasing prevalence among young women in the United States, Objective: The objective was to investigate the effects of spon...
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Background: Anorexia nervosa is a disease of severe acquired undernutrition with a high and increasing prevalence among young women in the United States, Objective: The objective was to investigate the effects of spontaneous outpatient weight recovery and estrogen administration on fat distribution in patients with anorexia nervosa. Design: Twenty-seven amenorrheic women aged 26.6 +/- 1.2 y with anorexia nervosa were identified through an outpatient study of bone loss and were randomly assigned to receive or not receive estrogen without any dietary intervention other than calcium and multivitamin supplements. Body composition was measured at baseline and at 6 and 9 mo and was compared with cross-sectional values obtained in 20 healthy, eumenorrheic, age-matched (25.4 +/- 0.5 y) control subjects. Results: Twenty of the 27 patients with anorexia aged 27.0 +/- 1.3 y spontaneously gained weight (4.1 +/- 0.9 kg);body mass index (in kg/m(2)) increased from 16.1 +/- 0.3 to 17.5 +/- 0.4, Fat mass and lean mass accounted for 68% and 32% of the gain in total body mass, respectively With spontaneous weight gain, there was a significant increase in the percentage of trunk far from 32.4 +/- 1.3% at baseline to 36.5 +/- 1.0% at 9 mo (P = 0.03), which correlated with urinary free cortisol (r = 0.66, P = 0.003), Estrogen treatment was not protective against the gain in trunk fat with spontaneous weight gain. Conclusions: ln women with anorexia nervosa, spontaneous weight gain is associated with a significant increase in trunk adiposity, and estrogen administration may not protect against the accumulation of central far with weight gain.
Most women with "early" breast cancer have distant metastases by the time the primary growth comes to diagnosis. This observation is based upon the fact that these frequently appear despite successful remova...
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Most women with "early" breast cancer have distant metastases by the time the primary growth comes to diagnosis. This observation is based upon the fact that these frequently appear despite successful removal of the primary growth, and given that they originate from the now no longer present tumour, the inescapable conclusion is that dissemination must have taken place prior to initial treatment. Failure to appreciate this rather obvious point results from shortcomings in available diagnostic technology, and inadequate usage of that which is available. Whether detected early or late, treatment of this disseminated cancer poses a common problem, and the various systemic methods are reviewed. Androgens, oestrogens, progestogens and single drug chemotherapy can, from time to time, produce useful results. By careful selection of patients with appropriate metastatic patterns, these methods may yield improved response rates up to 50% but, by and large, experience remains disappointing with across the board representative figures of perhaps 25% response being commonplace. Additionally, these methods are not without their side effects which can be distressing, and indeed on occasion life-threatening. Their short-comings have led to the development of cyclical combination chemotherapy as here reported. Cyclophosphamide, vincristine, 5-fluorouracil and methotrexate are administered for five consecutive days per month. The results obtained in 100 patients treated with this technique are compared with the authors' previous experience with norethisterone acetate and hypophysectomy. Whether the results are considered in total or broken down into prognostic categories such as predominant metastatic pattern, disease-free interval, or age, combination chemotherapy has a clear advantage over other techniques. Whilst this experience does not constitute a randomised trial, it is considered that the results are so superior to previous treatment techniques as to render such a study unne
The effectiveness of two oral contraceptives in suppressing plasma androstenedione (A), testosterone (T), LH, and FSH and in stimulating testosterone-estradiol-binding globulin TeBG) was evaluated in 39 hirsute women....
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Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding is defined as an intermittent or chronic loss of blood manifested by iron deficiency anemia or overt bleeding the source of which has not been identified in upper endoscopy, colonosco...
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Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding is defined as an intermittent or chronic loss of blood manifested by iron deficiency anemia or overt bleeding the source of which has not been identified in upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, and barium studies. The diagnostic work-up includes repeat upper endoscopy and colonoscopy, push enteroscopy, radionuclide bleeding scan, angiography, and exploratory laparotomy with intra-operative enteroscopy. Recent publications regarding these and new diagnostic modalities, as well as advances in therapy, including combination hormonal therapy, are reviewed.
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