Showing papers in "Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology in 2006"

TL;DR: The care provider's role is to explain about pathophysiology of dysmenorrhea to every adolescent and young adult female, address any concern that the patient has about her menstrual period, and review effective treatment options for dys menorrhea with the patient.

TL;DR: It is imperative that health care providers increase their anticipatory guidance regarding normal menstruation, which may aid in the prompt diagnosis and treatment of menstrual disorders, and decrease their associated morbidities.

TL;DR: Adolescents with moderate and severe dysmenorrhea reported high morbidity and used numerous non-pharmacologic remedies as well as medications for pain but infrequently accessed formal medical care.

TL;DR: Complete results of the 1992 Demographic and Health for Egypt were included in text and tables on 12 main topics: household characteristics fertility knowledge and attitudes about family planning current use of family planning use of the pill and IUD nonuse ofFamily planning and intention to use fertility preferences proximate determinants of fertility infant and child mortality maternal and child health infant feeding and maternal andChild nutrition and the husbands survey.

TL;DR: No single infectious agent was identified as a cause of vulvar ulcers, which are consistent with aphthous major or complex aphthosis that arise in response to acute illness.

TL;DR: The reports of premenstrual symptoms, their severity, timing and impairment suggest that PMS is common in adolescents, and further study is warranted to confirm these results with prospective assessment of PMS.

TL;DR: Betamethasone 0.05% cream appears to be a safe and effective treatment of pre-pubertal labial adhesions as primary therapy or in patients that have failed previous therapies and it may avoid the undesirable side effects of breast budding and hyperpigmentation that can be associated with Estrogen creams.

TL;DR: Topical estrogens were effective treatment for labial fusion and after surgical separation of adhesions there was a 10% recurrence rate.

TL;DR: Tanner self-staging is at least as accurate as estradiol and FSH measurements alone in evaluating healthy female adolescents' physical changes and menstrual pain and is particularly useful in large, epidemiologic, or cross cultural studies where physical examination and blood sampling may not be feasible due to cost, access, or psychosocial barriers.

TL;DR: Dysmenorrhea typically presents in the adolescent years about 6-12 months after menarche or when regular ovulatory cycles are established and may include nausea vomiting diarrhea headache fatigue dizziness and syncope as well as cramping.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess knowledge and attitudes of young uninsured women toward human papillomavirus vaccination and clinical trials and find that 72% of the respondents would enroll in a vaccine trial, despite the fact that 69% of women were ignorant of what HPV may cause, and only 10% acknowledged that HPV might lead to cervical cancer.

TL;DR: Self-breast examination is a mechanism to allow the patient to contribute to her healthcare accept her body and provides an opportunity for discussion about womens healthcare.

TL;DR: First generation immigrant girls are over-represented among adolescents who seek termination of pregnancy, which can be explained by the fact that the immigrant girls had less experience of contraceptive use and contraceptive counselling than ethnical Swedish girls.

TL;DR: In this homogenous group of teenagers, there was a similar complication rate as in the adult population and the only significant complication was anemia, which should not be considered as a high-risk situation as long as it is planned and followed with the normal routines of prenatal care.

TL;DR: A 5-day-old infant with a large hydrometrocolpos causing severe renal compromise and abdominal ascites is reported, successfully surgically treated in the neonatal period.

TL;DR: A case of autoimmune progesterone dermatitis seen in an adolescent female, a 15-year-old Caucasian female with no significant past medical history and no prior exogenous hormone use, who presented to her primary care physician complaining of cyclic skin eruptions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that re-treatment of persistent or recurrent labial agglutination with topical estrogen therapy following detailed application instruction leads to avoidance of surgical intervention in at least 35% of cases.

TL;DR: While trimming or shaving the bikini area is nothing new for women and adolescent girls more extensive pubic hair removal once relatively uncommon except for cultural and religious reasons is now routine.

TL;DR: Following pre-insertion screening for STI-related cervicitis and with consistent follow-up following insertion, IUCDs are well-tolerated by properly selected and counseled adolescents who require an easy and effective long-term method of birth control.

TL;DR: Fertility awareness is useful in helping women to identify the different stages of their reproductive life cycle and will also enable the recognition and early treatment of several metabolic, endocrine and infectious diseases.

TL;DR: Hydrosalpinx, although very rare in adolescence, must be considered in the differential diagnosis of adolescent virgin patients, as it may cause diagnostic dilemma, leading sometimes to suboptimal treatment.

TL;DR: This review paper highlights important healthcare issues for adolescents with Turner Syndrome.

TL;DR: Gynecologists should possess sufficient knowledge about the manifestations of adnexal torsion for immediate diagnosis and treatment to preserve future fertility and, if available, laparoscopic approach should be chosen for a young girl.

TL;DR: If larger studies of symptomatic young women replicate these findings, young women could collect two sequential urine samples from the same void to test for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and UTI.

TL;DR: Girls may talk to their mothers about new products for STI prevention, and such conversations may provide opportunities to promote use, to understand the potential predictors and nature of conversations regarding surrogate microbicide products.

TL;DR: A case of recurrent uterine prolapse after a prior laparoscopic uterine suspension procedure is presented and the Manchester Fothergill procedure is described, an additional fertility-sparing surgical approach to treatment of pelvic organ prolapse.