BENTIVOGLIO , Giorgio

BACKGROUND: Adenomyosis typically affects multiparous women be- tween the ages of 35 and 50, who present with painful irregular periods or excessive menstrual bleeding. Few case reports describing endometriosis in patients with gonadal dysgenesis have been published, but none has reported the presence of adenomyosis in a patient with Turner's...

This retrospective study evaluated complications associated with caesarean section in HIV-infected women. For each HIV-positive patient ( n=45) a control group of ten seronegative women ( n=450) was matched for age, number of foetuses, gestational age, indication for caesarean section, status of the membranes and kind of anaesthesia. All women...

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Myasthenia gravis (MG) affects women in the second and third decades of life, overlapping with the childbearing years. During pregnancy, the course of this disease is unpredictable; worsening of symptoms occurs more likely during the first half of pregnancy and postpartum. MG can be well managed during pregnancy with relatively safe and...

Background: to determine the effect of HIV infection on cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. Methods: retrospective study. Results: the sensitivity and specificity of Papanicolaou tests (PAP smear) were 94% and 80%. Patients with a normal Pap smear had higher CD4+ cell count compared to patients with squamous intraepithelial lesions but the...

Background: The efficacy and safety of various modes of medical treatment for primary hyperparathyroidism in pregnancy are largely unknown. Case presentation: We report the case of a 34-year-old white woman with primary hyperparathyroidism symptomatic for nephrolithiasis. Her serum calcium was 3.15 mmol/l and parathyroid hormone was 109.0 ng/L....

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Aim. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is common in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals in the United States and in Western Europe. The aim of this study is to describe our experience in the management of HIV-HCV co-infected women during pregnancy and to report the rates of HIV and HCV vertical transmission in this...

This prospective study, designed to demonstrate the rate of vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV), enrolled 170 consecutive anti-HCV antibody-positive women and their 188 infants over a 12-month period. HCV screening used second- and third-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. HCV-RNA was quantified in the women using the...

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Background. To determine: 1) whether the pathology correlates with the degree of immunosuppression, 2) whether there is a relation between pathology and antiretroviral therapies, 3) whether Papanicolau (Pap) smears correlate with colposcopic and histologic findings, 4) whether there is rapid genital disease progression after standard...

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