Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira, Maria Cristina Costa de Almeida, Carolina María Artucio Arcelus, Larissa Espíndola, Maria Alayde Mendonça Rivera, Agnaldo Lopes da Silva-Filho, Celi Marques-Santos, César Eduardo Fernandes, Carlos Japhet da Matta Albuquerque, Claudia Maria Vilas Freire, Maria Cristina de Oliveira Izar, Maria Elizabeth Navegantes Caetano Costa, Marildes Luiza de Castro, Viviana de Mello Guzzo Lemke, Alexandre Jorge Gomes de Lucena, Andréa Araujo Brandão, Ariane Vieira Scarlatelli Macedo, Carisi Anne Polanczyk, Carla Janice Baister Lantieri, Eliana Petri Nahas, Elizabeth Regina Giunco Alexandre, Erika Maria Gonçalves Campana, Érika Olivier Vilela Bragança, Fernanda Marciano Consolim Colombo, Imara Correia de Queiroz Barbosa, Ivan Romero Rivera, Jaime Kulak, Lidia Ana Zytynski Moura, Luciano de Mello Pompei, Luiz Francisco Cintra Baccaro, Marcia Melo Barbosa, Marcio Alexandre Hipólito Rodrigues, Marco Aurelio Albernaz, Maria Sotera Paniagua de Decoud, Maria Sanali Moura de Oliveira Paiva, Martha Beatriz Sanchez-Zambrano, Milena Dos Santos Barros Campos, Monica Acevedo, Monica Susana Ramirez, Olga Ferreira de Souza, Orlando Otávio de Medeiros, Regina Coeli Marques de Carvalho, Rogerio Bonassi Machado, Sheyla Cristina Tonheiro Ferro da Silva, Thais de Carvalho Vieira Rodrigues, Walkiria Samuel Avila, Lucia Helena Simões da Costa-Paiva, Maria Celeste Osorio Wender
{"title":"Brazilian Guideline on Menopausal Cardiovascular Health - 2024.","authors":"Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira, Maria Cristina Costa de Almeida, Carolina María Artucio Arcelus, Larissa Espíndola, Maria Alayde Mendonça Rivera, Agnaldo Lopes da Silva-Filho, Celi Marques-Santos, César Eduardo Fernandes, Carlos Japhet da Matta Albuquerque, Claudia Maria Vilas Freire, Maria Cristina de Oliveira Izar, Maria Elizabeth Navegantes Caetano Costa, Marildes Luiza de Castro, Viviana de Mello Guzzo Lemke, Alexandre Jorge Gomes de Lucena, Andréa Araujo Brandão, Ariane Vieira Scarlatelli Macedo, Carisi Anne Polanczyk, Carla Janice Baister Lantieri, Eliana Petri Nahas, Elizabeth Regina Giunco Alexandre, Erika Maria Gonçalves Campana, Érika Olivier Vilela Bragança, Fernanda Marciano Consolim Colombo, Imara Correia de Queiroz Barbosa, Ivan Romero Rivera, Jaime Kulak, Lidia Ana Zytynski Moura, Luciano de Mello Pompei, Luiz Francisco Cintra Baccaro, Marcia Melo Barbosa, Marcio Alexandre Hipólito Rodrigues, Marco Aurelio Albernaz, Maria Sotera Paniagua de Decoud, Maria Sanali Moura de Oliveira Paiva, Martha Beatriz Sanchez-Zambrano, Milena Dos Santos Barros Campos, Monica Acevedo, Monica Susana Ramirez, Olga Ferreira de Souza, Orlando Otávio de Medeiros, Regina Coeli Marques de Carvalho, Rogerio Bonassi Machado, Sheyla Cristina Tonheiro Ferro da Silva, Thais de Carvalho Vieira Rodrigues, Walkiria Samuel Avila, Lucia Helena Simões da Costa-Paiva, Maria Celeste Osorio Wender","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11554338/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142635745","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}
Geraldo Duarte, Patrícia Pereira Dos Santos Melli, Angélica Espinosa Miranda, Helaine Maria Besteti Pires Mayer Milanez, Maria Luiza Menezes, Ana Gabriela Travassos, Regis Kreitchmann
{"title":"Syphilis and pregnancy.","authors":"Geraldo Duarte, Patrícia Pereira Dos Santos Melli, Angélica Espinosa Miranda, Helaine Maria Besteti Pires Mayer Milanez, Maria Luiza Menezes, Ana Gabriela Travassos, Regis Kreitchmann","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024FPS09","DOIUrl":"10.61622/rbgo/2024FPS09","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>•Although congenital syphilis has a known etiological agent, accessible diagnosis and low-cost, effective treatment with low fetal toxicity, it continues to challenge obstetric and antenatal care services. •The increasing rates of syphilis in the general population have direct repercussions on the increase in cases of congenital syphilis, a situation of objective interest for public health. •Although transforming the recording of syphilis and congenital syphilis into notifiable diseases improved the records and has made it possible to measure the occurrence of these diseases and create solutions, no effects on reducing their frequency have been reached yet. •The failure to control syphilis/congenital syphilis is multifactorial, and associates variables that range from the deficiency in teaching about these diseases in schools and in the training system of the various health professional segments, as well as the lack of rigid policies for quality control from antenatal care until the clinical follow-up of children exposed to <i>Treponema pallidum</i> during pregnancy. •To date, benzathine penicillin is the only antimicrobial accepted as effective by the main health authorities on the planet for the treatment of syphilis in pregnant women. •The fear of anaphylaxis in response to the treatment of syphilis with benzathine penicillin is an important factor hindering the prompt and correct treatment of pregnant women with syphilis, even though health authorities have made efforts to face the problem with solid arguments, still insufficient to resolve the question. •Although specific protocols are published, the failure to control the treatment of syphilis in pregnant women is still observed with high frequency, indicating and reinforcing a failure in the quality control of these care principles. The National Specialized Commission on Infectious Diseases of the Brazilian Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Associations (Febrasgo) endorses this document. Content production is based on scientific evidence on the proposed topic and the results presented contribute to clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460428/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395831","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}
Ana Clara Felix de Farias Santos, Fernanda Valeriano Zamora, Lubna Al-Sharif, Kush Sehgal, Deyvid Vieira Silva Cavalcante, Sarah Hasimyan Ferreira, Pedro Henrique Costa Matos da Silva
{"title":"Immunosuppressants in women with repeated implantation failure in assisted reproductive techniques: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Ana Clara Felix de Farias Santos, Fernanda Valeriano Zamora, Lubna Al-Sharif, Kush Sehgal, Deyvid Vieira Silva Cavalcante, Sarah Hasimyan Ferreira, Pedro Henrique Costa Matos da Silva","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo70","DOIUrl":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo70","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare outcomes in patients with repeated implantation failure undergoing Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection/In vitro fertilization (IVF/ICSI) plus immunosuppressants such as prednisolone, prednisone, or cyclosporine A versus the use of IVF/ICSI alone.</p><p><strong>Data source: </strong>Databases were systematically searched in PubMed, Cochrane, and Embase databases in September 2023.</p><p><strong>Study selection: </strong>Randomized clinical trials and observational studies with the outcomes of interest were included.</p><p><strong>Data collect: </strong>We computed odds ratios (ORs) for binary endpoints, with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Heterogeneity was assessed using I<sup>2</sup> statistics. Data were analyzed using Review Manager 5.4.The main outcomes were live birth, miscarriage, implantation rate, clinical pregnancy, and biochemical pregnancy.</p><p><strong>Data synthesis: </strong>Seven studies with 2,829 patients were included. Immunosuppressive treatments were used in 1,312 (46.37%). Cyclosporine A improved implantation rate (OR 1.48; 95% CI 1.01-2.18) and clinical pregnancy (1.89, 95% CI 1.14-3.14). Compared to non-immunosuppressive treatment, prednisolone and prednisone did not improve live birth (OR 1.13, 95% CI 0.88-1.46) and miscarriage (OR 1.49, 95% CI 1.07-2.09). Prednisolone showed no significant effect in patients undergoing IVF/ICSI, clinical pregnancy (OR 1.34; 95% CI 0.76-2.36), or implantation rate (OR 1.36; 95% CI 0.76-2.42).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Cyclosporine A may promote implantation and clinical pregnancy rates. However, given the limited sample size, it is important to approach these findings with caution. Our results indicate that prednisolone and prednisone do not have any beneficial effects on clinical outcomes of IVF/ICSI patients with repeated implantation failure.</p><p><strong>Prospero: </strong>CRD42023449655.</p>","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460425/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395822","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}
Carina Bauer Luiz, Ana Lúcia Letti Müller, Cristiano Caetano Salazar, Teresinha Zanella, Gabriel Cardozo Müller, Amanda Vilaverde Perez, Mariana Sbaraini, Maria Lucia Oppermann, Janete Vettorazzi
{"title":"Multidisciplinary team training in postpartum hemorrhage: impact on the use of blood products.","authors":"Carina Bauer Luiz, Ana Lúcia Letti Müller, Cristiano Caetano Salazar, Teresinha Zanella, Gabriel Cardozo Müller, Amanda Vilaverde Perez, Mariana Sbaraini, Maria Lucia Oppermann, Janete Vettorazzi","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo67","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Compare the number of puerperal women submitted to blood transfusion before and after the implementation of a care protocol for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) with multidisciplinary team training.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional study in a university hospital, analyzing births from 2015 to 2019, compared the use of blood products before and after the adoption of a PPH protocol with multidisciplinary training.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Between 2015 and 2019, there were 17,731 births, with 299 (1.7%) postpartum women receiving blood products and 278 postpartum women were considered for this analysis, 128 (0.7%) at Time 1 and 150 (0.8%) at Time 2. After the multiprofessional team training (T2), there was a difference in the complete use of the PPH protocol (use of oxytocin, misoprostol and tranexamic acid) (T1 = 5.1% x T2 = 49.5%, p≤0.0001). An individual categorized analysis revealed that, in the T2 period, there was lower use of blood component units per patient compared to T1 (Mann-Whitney, p=0.006). It should be noted that at T1 and T2, 54% and 24% respectively received two units of blood products. It is important to highlight that after the multidisciplinary team training for the PPH protocol, the goal of zero maternal death due to hemorrhage was reached.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The adoption of a specific protocol for PPH, combined with the training of a multidisciplinary team, had an impact on the ability to identify women at high risk of hemorrhage, resulting in a decrease in the use of blood components.</p>","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460414/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395825","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}
Juliana Almeida Oliveira, Eloisa Gonçalves da Silva, Ayse Filiz Gokmen Karasu, Anelise Maria Nicolau Silva, Chris Elizabeth Philip
{"title":"Neonatal and maternal outcomes of mRNA versus Non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Juliana Almeida Oliveira, Eloisa Gonçalves da Silva, Ayse Filiz Gokmen Karasu, Anelise Maria Nicolau Silva, Chris Elizabeth Philip","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo69","DOIUrl":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo69","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare the effectiveness and safety of non-mRNA versus mRNA COVID-19 vaccines on pregnant women and their newborns in a systematic review with meta-analysis.</p><p><strong>Data sources: </strong>We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Central in May 2023.</p><p><strong>Study selection: </strong>The search strategy yielded 4451 results, 16 studies were fully reviewed. We selected case-control studies analysing non-mRNA versus mRNA vaccines. Data collection and analysis: we assessed the risk of bias using the Cochrane Risk of Bias in Non-randomized Studies of Interventions (ROBINS-I) tool. Standardised mean differences were pooled using random-effect models.</p><p><strong>Data synthesis: </strong>We identified 8 prospective and retrospective studies with a total of 32,153 patients. Non-mRNA vaccines were associated with a higher incidence of fever (OR 2.67; 95% CI 2.08-3.43; p<0.001), and a lower incidence of fetal or neonatal death (OR 0.16; 95% CI 0.08-0.33; p<0.001). In subgroup analyses, the Jansen vaccine (Ad26.COV2.S) was found to have a higher rate of premature labor/delivery (OR 4.48; 95% CI 1.45-13.83; p=0.009) and missed/spontaneous abortion (OR 1.90; 95% CI 1.09-3.30; p=0.02), as compared with the Pfizer (BNT162b2) vaccine.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>non-mRNA vaccines are associated with a lower incidence of fetal or neonatal death among pregnant women who receive a Covid19 vaccine, although at an increased rate of pyrexia compared with mRNA vaccines. Other studies are required for better assessment.</p><p><strong>Prospero: </strong>CRD42023421814.</p>","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460421/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395826","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}
Marcelo Santucci França, Valter Lacerda de Andrade, Alan Roberto Hatanaka, Roberto Santos, Francisco Herlanio Costa Carvalho, Maria Laura Costa, Gabriela Ubeda Santucci França, Rosiane Mattar, Ben Willem Mol, Antonio Fernandes Moron, Rodolfo de Carvalho Pacagnella
{"title":"A new screening of preterm birth in gestation with short cervix after pessary plus progesterone.","authors":"Marcelo Santucci França, Valter Lacerda de Andrade, Alan Roberto Hatanaka, Roberto Santos, Francisco Herlanio Costa Carvalho, Maria Laura Costa, Gabriela Ubeda Santucci França, Rosiane Mattar, Ben Willem Mol, Antonio Fernandes Moron, Rodolfo de Carvalho Pacagnella","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo39i","DOIUrl":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo39i","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aims to create a new screening for preterm birth < 34 weeks after gestation with a cervical length (CL) ≤ 30 mm, based on clinical, demographic, and sonographic characteristics.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This is a <i>post hoc</i> analysis of a randomized clinical trial (RCT), which included pregnancies, in middle-gestation, screened with transvaginal ultrasound. After observing inclusion criteria, the patient was invited to compare pessary plus progesterone (PP) versus progesterone only (P) (1:1). The objective was to determine which variables were associated with severe preterm birth using logistic regression (LR). The area under the curve (AUC), sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) were calculated for both groups after applying LR, with a false positive rate (FPR) set at 10%.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The RCT included 936 patients, 475 in PP and 461 in P. The LR selected: ethnics white, absence of previous curettage, previous preterm birth, singleton gestation, precocious identification of short cervix, CL < 14.7 mm, CL in curve > 21.0 mm. The AUC (CI95%), sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and PNV, with 10% of FPR, were respectively 0.978 (0.961-0.995), 83.4%, 98.1%, 83.4% and 98.1% for PP < 34 weeks; and 0.765 (0.665-0.864), 38.7%, 92.1%, 26.1% and 95.4%, for P < 28 weeks.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Logistic regression can be effective to screen preterm birth < 34 weeks in patients in the PP Group and all pregnancies with CL ≤ 30 mm.</p>","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460415/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395814","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}
Luciana da Cunha Bernardes Argenta, Nadya Helena Alves Dos Santos, Cláudia Saunders, Joana Dias da Costa, Letícia Victoria Souza da Cunha, Pamela Melo Krok Fedeszen, Patricia de Carvalho Padilha
{"title":"Association between dietary patterns and infant birth weight in brazilian pregnancy women with gestational diabetes: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Luciana da Cunha Bernardes Argenta, Nadya Helena Alves Dos Santos, Cláudia Saunders, Joana Dias da Costa, Letícia Victoria Souza da Cunha, Pamela Melo Krok Fedeszen, Patricia de Carvalho Padilha","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo68","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the association between the dietary patterns (DPs) of pregnant women with GDM (gestational diabetes <i>mellitus</i>) and the birth weight (BW) of the infants.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional study with 187 adult pregnant women with GDM attended at a maternity in Rio de Janeiro from 2011 to 2014. Dietary intake was assessed in the third trimester using a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire (FFQ). The outcomes were BW and weight adequacy for gestational age (GA). Reduced Rank Regression (RRR) was used to explain the following response variables: density of carbohydrates, fibres, and saturated fatty acids. Statistical analyzes included multinomial logistic regression models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean BW was 3261.9 (± 424.5) g. Three DPs were identified, with DP 3 (high consumption of refined carbohydrates, fast foods/snacks, whole milk, sugars/sweets, and soft drinks and low consumption of beans, vegetables, and low-fat milk and derivatives) being the main pattern, explaining 48.37% of the response variables. In the multinomial logistic regression analysis no statistically significant association was found between the tertiles of DPs and BW or the adequacy of weight for GA, even after adjustments of confounding covariates.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>No significant associations were found between maternal DPs in the third trimester of pregnancy and infant BW or adequacy of weight for GA.</p>","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460409/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395817","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}
Vilma Zotareli, Silvana Bento, Renato Souza, José Guilherme Cecatti
{"title":"Thinking on the purposes, roles and activities of networks for research on maternal and perinatal health: opinions of coordinators and members.","authors":"Vilma Zotareli, Silvana Bento, Renato Souza, José Guilherme Cecatti","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo75","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To identify the opinion of coordinators and members about the essential characteristics and to understand the research networks characteristics, to facilitate their implementation, sustainability and effectiveness so it can be replicated in low and middle-income countries.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A qualitative study using a semi-structured interview technique was conducted. We selected potential members, managers and participants of networks from publications identified in PubMed. After checking the FIGO congress program, we identified authors who were assigned as speakers at the event. An invitation was sent and interviews were scheduled.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In total, eleven interviews were performed. Coordinators and members of networks have the same goal when they decide to participate in a network. In general, they cited that these individuals had to be committed, responsible and enthusiastic people. The network should be composed also of postgraduate students. A network should allow multi-leadership, co-responsibility, autonomy and empowerment of its members. Effective communication was mentioned as an important pillar for network maintenance. Another motivation is being an author or coauthor in publications. One way to maintain a network running is social or governmental commitment, after resources expire, studies continue.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Networks are different due to the social context where they are inserted, however, some characteristics are common to all of them, such as having engaged leaders. For an effective and sustainable network, commitment and motivation in a leader and members are more in need than financial resources. Ideally, to ensure the operation of the network, the institution where the leader is linked should support this network.</p>","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460412/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395834","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}
Francisco Pimentel Cavalcante, Ticiane Oliveira Lima, Ryane Alcantara, Amanda Cardoso, Guilherme Novita, Felipe Zerwes, Eduardo Millen
{"title":"Immediate prepectoral versus submuscular breast reconstruction in nipple-sparing mastectomy: a retrospective cohort analysis.","authors":"Francisco Pimentel Cavalcante, Ticiane Oliveira Lima, Ryane Alcantara, Amanda Cardoso, Guilherme Novita, Felipe Zerwes, Eduardo Millen","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61622/rbgo/2024rbgo76","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate early complications in prepectoral breast reconstruction.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective cohort study including 180 consecutive cases of nipple-sparing mastectomy, comparing immediate breast reconstruction with subpectoral to prepectoral mammary implants in 2012-2022. Clinical and demographic characteristics and complications in the first three months following surgery were compared between the two techniques.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The prepectoral technique was used in 22 cases (12.2%) and the subpectoral in 158 (87.8%). Median age was higher in the prepectoral group (47 versus 43.8 years; p=0.038), as was body mass index (25.1 versus 23.8; p=0.002) and implant volume (447.5 versus 409 cc; p=0.001). The prepectoral technique was more associated with an inframammary fold (IMF) incision (19 cases, 86.4% versus 85, 53.8%) than with periareolar incisions (3 cases, 13.6% versus 73, 46.2%); (p=0.004). All cases in the prepectoral group underwent direct-to-implant reconstruction compared to 54 cases (34.2%) in the subpectoral group. Thirty-eight complications were recorded: 36 (22.8%) in the subpectoral group and 2 (9.1%) in the prepectoral group (p=0.24). Necrosis of the nipple-areola complex/skin flap occurred in 27 patients (17.1%) in the subpectoral group (prepectoral group: no cases; p=0.04). The groups were comparable regarding dehiscence, seroma, infection, and hematoma. Reconstruction failed in one case per group (p=0.230). In the multivariate analysis, IMF incision was associated with the prepectoral group (aOR: 34.72; 95%CI: 2.84-424.63).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The incidence of early complications was comparable between the two techniques and compatible with previous reports. The clinical and demographic characteristics differed between the techniques. Randomized clinical trials are required.</p>","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460416/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395821","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}
Cecília Martins Roteli-Martins, Ana Goretti Kalume Maranhão, Susana Cristina Aidé Viviani Fialho, Agnaldo Lopes da Silva-Filho
{"title":"The importance of the quadrivalent HPV vaccine in the elimination of cervical cancer in Brazil.","authors":"Cecília Martins Roteli-Martins, Ana Goretti Kalume Maranhão, Susana Cristina Aidé Viviani Fialho, Agnaldo Lopes da Silva-Filho","doi":"10.61622/rbgo/2024EDT04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61622/rbgo/2024EDT04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74699,"journal":{"name":"Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia","volume":"46 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11460431/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395832","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}