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OBJECTIVES: Bruxism is an oral habit that sums symptoms like tooth clenching, grinding and jaw contractions. This study aimed to evaluate self-assessment bruxism among dental students. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A questionnaire assessing the pe…

Acute appendicitis is the touchstone of any surgeon. The most common surgical pathology, acute appendicitis, has known over time, depending on the level of scientific knowledge, different therapeutic approaches, from absolute surgical absti…

INTRODUCTION: The present study has discussed the increasing prevalence of isthmocele, which is related to growing cesarean sections. It is also due to enhanced diagnostics, which includes transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) and magnetic resonan…

BACKGROUND: A 34-year-old nulligravid lady was referred to the outpatient gynecology department with the symptoms of abnormal menstrual bleeding and mild anemia. A transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) revealed the presence of a hyperechoic lesion …

BACKGROUND: Müllerian duct anomalies (MDAs) comprise a heterogeneous group of congenital malformations of the uterus, cervix and vagina that can impair menstruation, sexual function and fertility. Over the past three decades, minimally inva…

BACKGROUND/AIM: Urinary tract injuries (UTIs) are a significant complication in abdominal, laparoscopic and robotic surgeries. Due to the proximity of the urinary tract to critical structures, procedures like colorectal surgery, hysterectom…

Indocyanine green (ICG) has emerged as a transformative tool for intraoperative imaging in the field of oncology, significantly improving the identification and localization of tumors, lymphatic structures and metastatic lesions. This narra…

OBJECTIVES: The diagnosis of infertility affects between 8-12% of couples of childbearing age worldwide. It is difficult to manage infertility, which often generates anxiety and depression. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We conducted a study that i…

Introduction:Although endometriosis is prevalent among women of reproductive age, the risk factors or indicators associated with its development have remained mostly unknown. The present study aimed at evaluating the effect of lifestyle on …

Objective: Infertility is a complex condition that depends on numerous mechanisms regarding its occurrence and evolution. It does not appear as a single pathology, and therefore the diagnosis and management involve both the identification o…

Objective:The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of adjuvant growth hormone (GH) therapy in antagonist protocol aiming to improve ovarian response and clinical outcomes of women with poor ovarian response. Methodology:This clinical …

Introduction: Endometriosis is a condition that mainly concerns women of reproductive age, which causes several problems, including subfertility. The phenotypic presentation of endometriosis is defined by a complex interplay between genetic…

Introduction:Endometriosis is defined by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus, therefore leading to a chronic inflammatory reaction, adhesions development, scar tissue and a distorted pelvic female anatomy, most of the time…

Introduction: Nipah virus (NiV) was reported for the first time from the Kampung Sungai Nipah village of Malaysia in 1998. Since then, there have been multiple outbreaks, all of them in South- and South-East Asia. According to the World Hea…

Introduction:Endometriosis is a common inflammatory disease and a major cause of infertility through various mechanisms. Materials and method: We conducted a retrospective study in infertile women with endometriosis who underwent in vitro f…

Introduction: Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a common and multifactorial pathology among young women of reproductive age and one of the main causes for female infertility. Most patients are referred to a gynecologist due to specific …

Bone formation in the ovary is exceedingly rare, except in the setting of dermoid cysts. Here, the author reports a case of incidental finding of heterotopic bone formation in a mucinous cystadenoma of the ovary in a 45-year-old woman who h…

Endometriosis is a frequent gynecological disease among women of reproductive age, a benign condition with an uncertain etiology, but with multiple theories being proposed as main mechanisms of development. Perineal endometriosis is an unco…

Background: Chronic low back pain (LBP) is the most common musculoskeletal condition affecting a person's quality of life. Over the past decades, a lot of work was done in an attempt to reduce the negative impact of LBP, and help patients r…

Objectives: To evaluate sexual function in Iranian pregnant women in different trimesters. Materials and methods: This cross sectional study was conducted in a women's hospital between August 2013 and August 2014. Four hundred pregnant wome…

Background:Statistics from recent years have shown that 40% of infertile couples have a female etiological factor, 40% a male etiology and the remaining 20% a combination of female and male factors. For fertile couples, the chance of gettin…

According to the Old Testament (Provisions for clean and unclean of the Mosaic Law), a woman during menstruation or a man who has sexual relations with a menstruating woman are perceived as "unclean". When seven days pass after the first da…

BACKGROUND: Abdomen is considered a magic box or a Pandora box where you will get different, unexpected pathologies along with rare entities. Appendicitis is the commonest emergency in surgery which presents challenges to surgeons because o…

BACKGROUND: One of the most common structural balanced chromosome rearrangements is pericentric inversion of chromosome 9; inv(9)(p11q12), which is consider to be the variant of normal karyotype and has been found in normal population. Alth…