{"title":"Menopause: Why is Everyone Talking About it Now?","authors":"Sujata A Dalvi","doi":"10.1007/s13224-024-02033-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-024-02033-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is an interest in menopause that demands answers and solutions. Menopause affects each women differently and hence it is unique and needs to be talked about. This focus has led to improvement in women's health bringing about better outcome in physical and mental health. Increase in life expectancy has led to menopausal health care, an important issue. Menopause is not disease but causes symptoms that can differ individually. Occasionally, surgery, radiation, and medications can cause menopause. Menopause hormone therapy (MHT), nonhormonal therapy, and lifestyle modifications under supervision can improve menopausal outcome. It also gives window of opportunity to evaluate and reduce risk of cardiovascular, bone, and urogenital health. Menopausal women should be provided with all options that are suitable and feasible for improvement in their life.</p>","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"74 3","pages":"196-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11224163/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141555942","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":"Experiences of \"Antara\": The Injectable Contraceptive in Rural Indian Women Presenting to a Tertiary Care Hospital of Eastern India.","authors":"Sabyasachi Ray, Kinkar Sing, Titol Biswas, Siva Tejaswi Manepalli, Akanksha Chaturvedi","doi":"10.1007/s13224-023-01863-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-023-01863-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Depot medroxy progesterone acetate (DMPA) is an injectable contraceptive with well-proven effectiveness and excellent safety profile. It is marketed as Antara in India as a part of the government's family planning programme.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to assess the experiences of women using Antara (DMPA) at a tertiary care hospital of Eastern India.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>An institution-based retrospective cross-sectional study was carried out in the family planning unit of the study institution from April 2021 to October 2022 among 200 women of reproductive age. Each of the mothers was administered a researcher-administered questionnaire containing questions pertaining to their sociodemographic characteristics and Antara use experience.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean age of the study participants was 26.4 ± 5.9 years. Most of the participants were Hindus (55.0%), homemakers by their occupation (86.0%), and from lower socio-economic status. A significant proportion of the women had no formal education (14.0%) or had below primary education (14.5%). The most common reason provided by the participants for the discontinuation of Antara was the incidence of various side effects such as irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and apprehension. Lower educational status (<i>p</i> value < 0.001), poorer socio-economic status (<i>p</i> value < 0.001), and interval period starting of Antara (<i>p</i> value < 0.001) were statistically significantly associated with the discontinuation of the contraceptive.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Most women who started taking DMPA (Antara) discontinued due to the fear of side effects. Therefore, the focus should be to educate women regarding the benefits and side effects of DMPA through proper counselling.</p>","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"74 3","pages":"243-249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11224178/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141555920","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":"Women's Health: Coming of Age on 2024.","authors":"Madhuri Patel","doi":"10.1007/s13224-024-01990-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-024-01990-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The focus of the life and work of an obstetrics and gynaecological specialist is improving women's health, hence it is imperative that this issue be addressed in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of India while we are still fresh with our memories of the \"International women's day\" celebration. The multidimensional impact of health and well-being of women has now been realised not only in the medical field but also in the realms of socioeconomic development. Governments all over the world are now paying special attention towards improving infrastructure, policymaking and implementation strategies to uplift the quality of healthcare for women and children, which are now also important components of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is heartening to see worldwide interdisciplinary collaboration and coordination to achieve this vital goal and include every aspect of women's healthcare through the \"lifecycle\" approach and \"holistic care\" protocols.</p>","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"74 2","pages":"99-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11065823/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140861243","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":"President's Address.","authors":"Jaydeep Tank","doi":"10.1007/s13224-024-01971-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-024-01971-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"74 1","pages":"3-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10901754/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140023190","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":"Taking It Forward………….","authors":"Madhuri Patel","doi":"10.1007/s13224-024-01962-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-024-01962-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"74 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10901752/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140023191","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":"Revisiting Imperforate Anus in Delivery Rooms.","authors":"Chetan Khare","doi":"10.1007/s13224-023-01865-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-023-01865-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"73 Suppl 2","pages":"290-291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10746625/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139032865","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":"Uterine PEcoma: A Case Report with Diagnostic Conundrums.","authors":"Paramita Paul, Kirti Rajput","doi":"10.1007/s13224-023-01864-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-023-01864-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"73 Suppl 2","pages":"311-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10746629/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139032878","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":"Vaginal Dose Reduction by Changing the Ovoid Loading Pattern in Image Guided Intracavitary Brachytherapy of Cervix.","authors":"Ramya Rangarajan","doi":"10.1007/s13224-023-01868-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-023-01868-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Locally advanced cervical cancer is frequently treated using a combination of external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy. Radiotherapy often leads to vaginal morbidity, which poses a significant problem. This study aims to analyze the impact of reducing ovoid loading on dosimetry.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>We analyzed forty-five CT-based intracavitary brachytherapy plans from fifteen patients. Three plan sets were created for the 45 applications: a standard loading plan (A), a plan with reduced ovoid loading (B), and a tandem-only loading plan (C). We generated Dose-Volume Histograms and recorded dose volume parameters for the three plan sets.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The D90 for the Clinical Target Volume (CTV) did not show significant differences among the three plan sets (<i>p</i> = 0.20). The average D90 values for plans A, B, and C were 8.15 Gy, 8.16 Gy, and 7.4 Gy, respectively. No statistically significant differences were observed in D2cc bladder (<i>p</i> = 0.09) (average values: 6.8 Gy, 6.5 Gy, and 5.9 Gy for plans A, B, and C, respectively) and D2cc sigmoid (<i>p</i> = 0.43) (average values: 2.8 Gy, 2.6 Gy, and 2.4 Gy, respectively) among the three plan sets. However, there was a statistically significant difference in D2cc rectum (<i>p</i> < 0.001) (average values: 4 Gy, 3.3 Gy, and 1.8 Gy, respectively), as well as in vaginal dose points (<i>p</i> < 0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Reducing ovoid loading significantly decreased the doses to vaginal dose points and the rectum without compromising the dose to the Clinical Target Volume (CTV). Therefore, in carefully selected cases, the adoption of tandem-only loading or reduced ovoid loading could be considered to minimize vaginal morbidity following high dose rate intracavitary brachytherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"73 Suppl 2","pages":"179-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10746660/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139032879","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":"MPNST of Uterine Round Ligament: A Report of a Surgically Challenging Aggressive Rare Case and Literature Review.","authors":"Deepak Bose, P Rema, J Sivaranjith, S Suchetha","doi":"10.1007/s13224-023-01874-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-023-01874-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>MPNSTs (malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours) arise rarely from the female genital tract, even more rarely from the uterus. A literature review showed 18 cases affecting the uterine cervix, but only four affecting the uterus per se, making our present case the fifth to be involving the uterus, specifically round ligament. It was the first time a uterine lesion (not uterine cervix) was defined in a neurofibromatosis patient. This was a young patient who initially underwent a uterus-sparing surgery for a round ligament tumour which was finally diagnosed to be MPNST. She received adjuvant chemotherapy but recurred with pelvic vascular involvement. A challenging surgery was performed, and the tumour was resected without morbidity. She was followed up with radiotherapy; however, she quickly developed extensive peritoneal disease and succumbed to the disease. High-grade nature of MPNST along with the background of NF could have made the tumour more aggressive, highlighting the importance of suspecting MPNST in spindle cell tumours of pelvis and performing total resection in the first setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"73 Suppl 2","pages":"315-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10746592/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139032863","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}
Upasana Baruah, Apoorva Tak, Debabrata Barmon, Dimpy Begum
{"title":"Our Experience of Distal and Total Urethrectomies in Post Irradiated Vulvar Malignancies in Low Resource Settings: A Single Centre Study.","authors":"Upasana Baruah, Apoorva Tak, Debabrata Barmon, Dimpy Begum","doi":"10.1007/s13224-023-01854-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s13224-023-01854-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>At diagnosis, women with vulvar cancer often present in locally advanced stage especially in developing countries, owing to the associated ignorance and social stigma. Generally tumour is seen involving adjacent organs, like the vagina, anus, and urethra. Damage to the sphincter system leads to urinary incontinence. Available evidence regarding urethral resections, subsequent lower urinary tract dysfunction and neo-meatus reconstruction in radical vulvar surgeries is scarce and conflicting.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>Considering, the lack of literature on outcomes of partial and total urethrectomies post chemoradiation in advanced vulvar malignancies from India, in the current study, we analysed our experience of such cases that have been operated post chemoradiation over a span of 2 years (from January 2019 to January 2021).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>DFS ( disease free survival) of more than 6 months was seen in 5 of our patients, however in view of local wound complications after primary closure, we recommend reconstruction with myocutaneous flaps. Also in view of incontinence observed in two of our patients who had undergone more than 1⁄2 of urethral resection, as a result of failed suprapubic catheterisation, further plan of urethral reconstruction should be considered especially in patients who have received prior radiation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our small group of patients represents a unique cohort of patients in whom surgery was attempted after radiation therapy. We have seen that surgery is a feasible option after radiotherapy in patients with advanced disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":51563,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India","volume":"73 Suppl 2","pages":"173-178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10746633/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139032864","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}