The New Zealand medical journal

Decisions about healthcare funding and delivery in Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as the monitoring of health service performance and outcomes, are driven by readily available data, in particular from administrative health datasets. Most of …

AIM: To explore the change in emergency department (ED) attendances for persistent pelvic pain (PPP) following laparoscopic treatment of endometriosis. METHODS: A retrospective service evaluation was conducted on a convenience sample of 1 …

AIM: This study aimed to understand the role that menstrual apps ("period tracking apps" or "fertility apps") could perform in healthcare. METHODS: Expert stakeholders including healthcare providers, app users, and patients offered perspec…

The extragonadal manifestations of intestinal endometriosis necessitating immediate abdominal surgical exploration are, to date, sparsely represented within the literature. We present two cases of acute complete small and large bowel obstru…

AIMS: To audit the outcome of tubal surgery performed in Wellington between 1986-90. To establish the appropriate indications for tubal surgery in terms of likely benefit. To compare benefit with other treatment modalities namely in vitro f…

Three patients with severe haemophilia A and one patient with moderately severe Christmas disease were given danazol and placebo in a double blind cross over trial to study the effects on haemostatic variables and bleeding tendency. In each…

Women entering the AID programme in Dunedin since 1983 were studied to assess the clinical performance of cryopreservation modifications as well as the early assessment of coexistent infertility factors. The cumulative pregnancy rate for no…

This article discusses the use of hysterectomy as a form of sterilization at Hutt Hospital. Between the years 1960 and 1970, 70 women underwent tubal ligation sterilization. The author followed these women with the interest in whether furth…

Six hundred and twenty-one hysterectomies were performed at National Women's Hospital, Auckland, during 1975. Abnormal vaginal bleeding was the clinical indication in 50.72% of the cases. Fibroids, pelvic mass, prolapse, stress incontinence…

A case of endometrioma of the rectum is reported. This was clinically indistinguishable from a carcinoma. The difficulties of diagnosis and management are emphasised.