{"title":"Comments on the article \"Monkey pox and female sexual health\".","authors":"Amnuay Kleebayoon, Viroj Wiwanitkit","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4040","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4040","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>n/a.</p>","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 4","pages":"317-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10911415/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139992277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Angela María Álvarez, Sandra María Vélez-Cuervo, Walter Darío Cardona-Maya
{"title":"Reply to: \"Comments on the article \"Monkey pox and female sexual health\"\".","authors":"Angela María Álvarez, Sandra María Vélez-Cuervo, Walter Darío Cardona-Maya","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4149","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 4","pages":"319-320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10911414/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139992278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Soraya Patricia Salas-Romero, Zorayda Barrios-Puerta, Kendy Paola Madero-Zambrano, Ana María Bello-Trujillo
{"title":"Guidelines on Gestational and Congenital Syphilis: insights of health professionals in Bolívar (Colombia)","authors":"Soraya Patricia Salas-Romero, Zorayda Barrios-Puerta, Kendy Paola Madero-Zambrano, Ana María Bello-Trujillo","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4012","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To describe the knowledge, appropriateness and practices regarding the evidence-based “Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for the comprehensive management of gestational syphilis (GS) and congenital syphilis (CS)”.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A descriptive, cross-sectional study including general practitioners, specialists and nurses working at 52 healthcare institutions in the Bolivar Department (Colombia) who provided prenatal control or neonatal care in 2020. Convenience sampling was used. A digital questionnaire was administered to collect sociodemographic information, assessed knowledge, appropriateness and practices in terms of the evidenced-based “Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG)\" mentioned in the objectives. A descriptive analysis followed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 101 workers were included. There are deficiencies associated with the correct use of the inverse algorithm of diagnosis (48 %) and GS followup (77 %), management of the patient with a history of systemic manifestation allergies (31 %) and treatment of GS (61 %) and CS (10 %). The recommendation of not using the penicillin test in patients with no history of systemic allergies is considered of little benefit (60 %). 23 % of the workers do not use rapid tests and 44 % of the specialists administer syphilis treatment to the sexual partner.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>It is important to intensify the training strategies for health personnel with emphasis on nurses and, as a matter of urgency, empower them in syphilis control activities. New and continuous national and regional evaluations of the implementation of these guidelines are needed to assess the indicators associated with the strategy for the elimination of this disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 4","pages":"297-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10911418/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139992275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of the implementation of the Clinical Practice Guidelines. A pending assignment in Colombia","authors":"Hernando Gaitán-Duarte","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4179","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4179","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>.</p>","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 4","pages":"270-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10911417/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139992273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Walter Annicchiarico-López, Leidy Ximena Peña-Pardo, Jezid Enrique Miranda-Quintero
{"title":"Prenatal diagnosis of Freeman-Sheldon syndrome using ultrasound and genetic testing. Case report","authors":"Walter Annicchiarico-López, Leidy Ximena Peña-Pardo, Jezid Enrique Miranda-Quintero","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4019","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To describe a case of prenatal diagnosis of Freeman-Sheldon syndrome based on ultrasound findings and complete fetal exome sequencing.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>A 33-year-old patient currently on treatment for hypothyroidism in whom a 19-week detailed anatomical ultrasound scan showed fetal deformities in more than two body areas (upper and lower limbs), suggesting a diagnosis of arthrogryposis. Genetic counseling was provided and amniocentesis was performed at 20 weeks for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analysis and complete fetal exome sequencing, with the latter allowing the identification of a heterozygous pathogenic variant of the MYH3 gene which is associated with type 2A distal arthrogryposis.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Complete fetal exome sequencing was a key factor in identifying the MYH3 gene mutation and confirmed that the deformities seen on ultrasound were associated with type 2A distal arthrogryposis. It is important to perform complete fetal exome sequencing in cases of joint malformations seen on prenatal ultrasound.</p>","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 4","pages":"310-316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10911420/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139992272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sindy Yurany Acevedo-Bedoya, Diana C Londoño-Sierra, Maria de Los Angeles Sterling-Villada, Angelica Osorio-Posada, Camila Garnica-Cardona, Sandra L Restrepo-Mesa
{"title":"Breastfeeding experiences from the perspective of the breastfeeding woman: qualitative study","authors":"Sindy Yurany Acevedo-Bedoya, Diana C Londoño-Sierra, Maria de Los Angeles Sterling-Villada, Angelica Osorio-Posada, Camila Garnica-Cardona, Sandra L Restrepo-Mesa","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4105","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To understand the breastfeeding experience from the perspective of a group of women who breastfeed for the first time.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Qualitative study from an ethnographic perspective, focusing on a group of women from the eastern region of the Department of Antioquia (Colombia). Intentional sampling until data saturation was used. The group included 16 first-time breastfeeding mothers aged 18 or older, with children under 24 months of age and who were breastfeeding or had breastfed exclusively for at least three months. Semi-structured interviews and participant observations were carried out. Data were analyzed by triangulation and open and axial coding. The results are presented in the form of category descriptions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four categories were identified in relation to the breastfeeding experience: exhaustion and pain dispelled by love, breastfeeding and the new order of things, emotions of a woman embodied in a mother, and breastfeeding as a social act.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Protection of breastfeeding requires special attention to the woman as a subject beyond the act of breastfeeding, giving priority to her physical and emotional health as essential elements that must be kept in mind by healthcare professionals. Studies to assess the effects of creating support groups that foster the exchange of insights to help the breastfeeding woman are required.</p>","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 4","pages":"287-296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10911416/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139992274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Franco Rafael Ruiz-Echeverría, María Islena Beltrán-Salazar, Lina María Caicedo-Páez, Maribel Palencia-Palacios, Catherin Salazar-Silva, David Viveros-Carreño
{"title":"Uterine collision tumor. Case report and review of the literature","authors":"Franco Rafael Ruiz-Echeverría, María Islena Beltrán-Salazar, Lina María Caicedo-Páez, Maribel Palencia-Palacios, Catherin Salazar-Silva, David Viveros-Carreño","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4011","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4011","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To report the case of a patient with a uterine collision tumor and to conduct a review of the literature.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A 76-year-old patient who presented to the national cancer referral center in Bogota (Colombia), where she was diagnosed with a uterine collision tumor consisting of a seroustype endometrial adenocarcinoma and a cervical adenosarcoma. The patient underwent surgical treatment followed by chemotherapy and supplemental radiotherapy, and died 16 months later. A search was conducted in the Medline via PubMed and Embase databases, including reports and case series of women with a diagnosis of uterine collision tumor, with retrieval of information regarding diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. A narrative summary of the findings was made.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The search identified 36 titles, of which 14 studies with 17 patients were included. The most frequent histopathological diagnosis was endometrial adenocarcinoma and high and low grade endometrial sarcoma (47 %). Primary treatment was surgery and adjuvant treatment with chemotherapy and radiotherapy (15 %) was performed in close to 50 % of cases. One-year survival was 75 %.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>No cases of uterine collision tumors with the histopathology or in the location of the reported case were found in the literature. If this reported case is taken into account, 2-year mortality is 28 %. Further studies to describe the immunohistochemistry, treatment and prognosis of this condition are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 3","pages":"225-236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10652777/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71490961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria J Arias-Gutiérrez, Diana Carolina Londoño-Sierra, Nathalia Correa-Guzmán, Sandra L Restrepo-Mesa
{"title":"Dietary intake assessment in a group of breastfeeding women in two populations of Antioquia, Colombia, 2021-2022","authors":"Maria J Arias-Gutiérrez, Diana Carolina Londoño-Sierra, Nathalia Correa-Guzmán, Sandra L Restrepo-Mesa","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4025","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To describe the prevalence of the risk of under or overnutrition and the food intake pattern vis à vis the recommendations of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the Colombian Family Welfare Institute.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Descriptive cross-sectional study carried out in healthy women receiving care in two hospitals of eastern Antioquia, with food and nutrition security in accordance with the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale (ELCSA), in the first trimester of breastfeeding, assessed between 2021 and 2022. The clinical record was used as the source of information. The sociodemographic, clinical, anthropometric characteristics, as well as dietary and micronutrient intake, were measured. Descriptive statistics were used. The prevalence of deficient or excessive energy intake and the food consumption score (FCS) are presented. The EVINDI v5, PC-SIDE v1.0, Stata 16.1 and Jasp 0.16.4 software packages were used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, 30 breastfeeding women were included. The prevalence of the risk of deficient energy intake was 43 %, while the risk of excessive intake was 16 % and the risk of protein deficiency was 98 %. Intake exceeding the reference value for saturated fats was 86 %, and 72 % for simple carbohydrates. The consumption pattern was characterized by exceeding the recommendations for sugars (FCS = 1.29), milk and dairy products (FCS = 1.09), grains, roots, plantains and tubers (FCS = 1.04). Recommendations for the intake of fats (FCS = 0.70), meats, eggs, legumes, nuts, seeds (FCS = 0.49), fruits and vegetables (FCS = 0.41 were not met.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The food intake pattern identified is far from meeting the national guidelines, limiting macro and micronutrient intake and contributing to the intergenerational malnutrition cycle. Additional research in the country is essential in order to identify other intake patterns and drive political action.</p>","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 3","pages":"214-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10652765/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71491035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's response to the letter \"Retrospective cohort study of maternal outcomes by placenta praevia type: limitations of external and internal validity of the results\"","authors":"Hernando Gaitán-Duarte","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4124","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 3","pages":"246-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10652766/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136400959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yomira Hutarra-Bergara, Wendy Poma-Gómez, Andrea Salvador-Carrillo
{"title":"Retrospective cohort study of maternal outcomes by type of placenta previa: limitations in the external and internal validity of the results","authors":"Yomira Hutarra-Bergara, Wendy Poma-Gómez, Andrea Salvador-Carrillo","doi":"10.18597/rcog.4083","DOIUrl":"10.18597/rcog.4083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101422,"journal":{"name":"Revista colombiana de obstetricia y ginecologia","volume":"74 3","pages":"244-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10652770/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71491034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}