Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift

AIM OF THE STUDY: The management of infertile couples at regional hospital level is rarely reported and is generally less known, whereas the activity of university infertility clinics is usually the reference. We evaluate the diagnostic app…

In ancient years, knowledge about healing capacity of extracts from plants together with sunshine became evident in medicine. In our days second generation photosensitizers (they stand for plant extracts) and laser light (stands for sunshin…

AIM: To determine whether the term "fractional D&C" is justified with respect to the uterine cervix and corpus fractions, and what indications and results are found when a large population at a university hospital is analyzed. METHODS: In …

We report on 2 patients with catamenial pneumothorax and one patient with catamenial hemoptysis. The pathogenesis of these diseases is not clear, and intrathoracic endometriosis is often assumed. Catamenial pneumothorax is rare and differs …

Tumor markers are useful tools in monitoring malignancies postoperatively or under hormone-/chemotherapy. In contrast, they usually lack diagnostic relevance and uncritical use may result in confusing situations. We describe three cases of …

In 1985 sigmoid resection was performed in an 81-year-old patient with recurrent sigmoid diverticulitis. Due to adenomyosis uteri, hysterectomy was performed at the same time. Approximately one year after an uneventful recovery fetid leukor…

Severe thrombocytopenia has been diagnosed in HIV seropositive patients independently of the clinical stage of disease. In view of its immunologic origin, attempts have been made to treat this condition with drugs which have proved effectiv…

During the last few years, many neuropeptides have been isolated, characterized and synthesized. Neuroendocrinology is one area in which there has been major progress, particularly through the isolation of two new hypothalamic factors, cort…

The last few years have seen the isolation, characterization and synthesis of two new hypothalamic peptides, the growth-hormone releasing factor (GRF) and the corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF). GRF selectively stimulates pituitary growt…

The symptom of hirsutism, i.e. excessive sexual hair of the male pattern for the individual woman, must be strictly differentiated from hypertrichosis, which is not androgendependent and occurs in both sexes, and also from the disease of vi…

Recurrent abdominal pain in women during the ovulatory years as well as during the climacteric period may be due to the intestinal form of endometriosis. Rectal discharge of blood and correlation with the menstrual cycle are not common. The…

Including the case herein recorded, 33 cases of spontaneous pneumothorax occurring concurrently with menses (catamenial pneumothorax) have now been reported. The pathogenesis of the pneumothorax is not understood; it appears to occur exclus…