{"title":"The role of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Index (SIRI) and other maternal biochemical markers in determining the severity of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy.","authors":"Derya Kanza Gul, Nihal Callioglu","doi":"10.5603/gpl.102459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5603/gpl.102459","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To investigate the roles of the systemic inflammatory response index (SIRI) and other biochemical markers obtained from maternal blood in determining the diagnosis and severity of pregnancy cholestasis.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>In this retrospective case-control study, a total of 815 pregnant women including 546 healthy pregnant women [serum total bile acid (TBA) level < 10 μmol/L, control group], 185 patients with mild cholestasis [serum TBA level < 40 μmol/L, mild intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) group] and 84 patients with severe cholestasis (serum TBA level ≥ 40 μmol/L, severe ICP group) were evaluated. The groups were compared regarding demographic data, clinical characteristics, SIRI (neutrophilcount*monocytecount/lymphocyte count), and other laboratory data. Cut-off values that could predict ICP were calculated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The average neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR), systemic immune-inflammation index (SII), and systemic inflammatory response index (SIRI) were found to be statistically significantly higher in the severe ICP group compared with the control group and mild ICP group (p < 0.01 and p < 0.05). The best SIRI cut-off value was 2.3302 (60.3% sensitivity and 52.2% specificity) [area under the curve: 0.590 ± 0.023, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.546-0.634; p < 0.001].</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>SIRI may be a useful marker in determining the diagnosis and severity of ICP. However, were commend that studies be conducted in larger groups and indifferent trimesters.</p>","PeriodicalId":94021,"journal":{"name":"Ginekologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142985852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monika Bekiesinska-Figatowska, Marta Dziuba, Krystyna Ignaciuk, Malgorzata Gajewska, Tomasz Sarosiek, Jaroslaw B Cwikla
{"title":"Pelvic splenosis infiltrating the uterus and ovary.","authors":"Monika Bekiesinska-Figatowska, Marta Dziuba, Krystyna Ignaciuk, Malgorzata Gajewska, Tomasz Sarosiek, Jaroslaw B Cwikla","doi":"10.5603/gpl.103029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5603/gpl.103029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94021,"journal":{"name":"Ginekologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142985835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joanna Szczudlo-Chrascina, Pawel Bojar, Michal Holecki, Agnieszka Niewiadomska, Katarzyna Steinhof-Radwanska
{"title":"The inflammatory breast cancer mimicker - the SMOLD syndrome - rare complication of smoking.","authors":"Joanna Szczudlo-Chrascina, Pawel Bojar, Michal Holecki, Agnieszka Niewiadomska, Katarzyna Steinhof-Radwanska","doi":"10.5603/gpl.103103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5603/gpl.103103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94021,"journal":{"name":"Ginekologia polska","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142985848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ginekologia polskaPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-17DOI: 10.5603/gpl.100131
Iwona M Gawron, Dorota Babczyk, Robert Jach
{"title":"Off-label letrozole for tubal pregnancy monotherapy is not an alternative to methotrexate: a prospective cohort study.","authors":"Iwona M Gawron, Dorota Babczyk, Robert Jach","doi":"10.5603/gpl.100131","DOIUrl":"10.5603/gpl.100131","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Inhibition of estradiol production by letrozole may interfere with physiological effects of progesterone necessary to maintain the pregnancy. Treatment of tubal pregnancy (TP) with letrozole would allow to avoid the disadvantages of methotrexate (MTX). The aim was to compare the effectiveness of letrozole with MTX in the management of TP.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A prospective open-label cohort study was conducted among women with TP and increasing B-human chorionic gonadotropin (B-hCG) concentrations. MTX was administered in a single dose of 100 mg intravenously, while letrozole in a dose of 5 mg orally for 10 days. Blood parameters (B-hCG, hemoglobin, creatinine, urea, transaminases, bilirubin) were tested on days 0, 4 and 7.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Out of 22 eligible women, 14 received MTX and received 8 letrozole. Mean age, lesion diameter, gestation age in the MTX vs letrozole arm were: 31 vs 32 years (p = 0.3), 13.2 vs 16.3 mm (p = 0.1), 7 + 1 vs 7 + 0 weeks (p = 0.6), respectively. In case of 4 women treated with letrozole and in 2 treated with MTX (4/8, 50% vs 2/14, 14.3%, p = 0.07) the treatment was unsuccessful. There were no significant differences in blood parameters on days 0, 4 and 7 between both arms, except for the increasing urea concentration in the letrozole arm (p = 0.01).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Even though the results did not reach statistical significance, it is likely that a larger study sample would confirm the trend of letrozole being less effective. The results did not support the use of letrozole in the studied regimen as an alternative to MTX.</p>","PeriodicalId":94021,"journal":{"name":"Ginekologia polska","volume":" ","pages":"51-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142304680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ginekologia polskaPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-16DOI: 10.5603/gpl.100274
Ruihong Lan, Yang Yang, Jie Song, Hong Yang, Ling Wang, Humin Gong
{"title":"Association between MMP-9-C1562Tpolymorphism and susceptibility to preeclampsia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Ruihong Lan, Yang Yang, Jie Song, Hong Yang, Ling Wang, Humin Gong","doi":"10.5603/gpl.100274","DOIUrl":"10.5603/gpl.100274","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This meta-analysis aims to explore the association between MMP-9-C1562T polymorphism and susceptibility to preeclampsia (PE).</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Four English databases were searched to collect relevant records up to April 2024. The pooled odds ratio (OR) was calculated using Stata 15.0.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 10 studies were enrolled in our systematic review. The results showed that genotype CT at MMP-9-C1562T locus increased the risk of PE versus genotype TT (Genotype CT vs TT: OR = 2.32, 95% CI: 1.27-4.24, P = 0.006), but no significant differences were found in other gene models (C vs T: OR = 0.88, 95% CI: 0.71-1.08, P = 0.225; Genotype CC vs TT: OR = 1.51, 95% CI: 0.87-2.61, P = 0.139; Genotype CC + CT vs TT: OR = 1.63, 95% CI: 0.95-2.81, P = 0.079; Genotype CC vs CT + TT: OR = 0.80, 95% CI: 0.63-1.03, P = 0.086). Subgroup analysis by ethnicity showed a statistically significant difference in the heterozygous model in China (Genotype CT vs TT: OR = 2.38, 95% CI: 1.15 -4.91, P = 0.019).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Association of MMP-9-C1562T polymorphism with susceptibility to PE exists. Specifically, genotype CT increases the risk of PE versus genotype TT, particularly in Caucasian populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":94021,"journal":{"name":"Ginekologia polska","volume":" ","pages":"65-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142484020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ginekologia polskaPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-29DOI: 10.5603/gpl.101714
Oskar Sylwestrzak, Katarzyna Zych-Krekora, Lukasz Sokolowski, Maciej Ziebakowski, Michal Krekora
{"title":"Fetal cardiac function is altered by circumvallate placenta.","authors":"Oskar Sylwestrzak, Katarzyna Zych-Krekora, Lukasz Sokolowski, Maciej Ziebakowski, Michal Krekora","doi":"10.5603/gpl.101714","DOIUrl":"10.5603/gpl.101714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94021,"journal":{"name":"Ginekologia polska","volume":" ","pages":"233-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142752661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ginekologia polskaPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-08-14DOI: 10.5603/gpl.100439
Julia Rudnicka, Aleksandra Urban, Julia Gorny, Anna Danska-Bidzinska, Ewa Romejko-Wolniewicz
{"title":"Initial paraneoplastic presentation of advanced choriocarcinoma.","authors":"Julia Rudnicka, Aleksandra Urban, Julia Gorny, Anna Danska-Bidzinska, Ewa Romejko-Wolniewicz","doi":"10.5603/gpl.100439","DOIUrl":"10.5603/gpl.100439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94021,"journal":{"name":"Ginekologia polska","volume":" ","pages":"74-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141977485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ginekologia polskaPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2023-10-20DOI: 10.5603/gpl.95073
Dong Wang, Jinlin Wu, Jianjun Deng, Ming Luo, Jie Ruan, Zhan Yang
{"title":"Using the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance risk index to determine risk factors associated with surgical site infections following gynecologic surgeries.","authors":"Dong Wang, Jinlin Wu, Jianjun Deng, Ming Luo, Jie Ruan, Zhan Yang","doi":"10.5603/gpl.95073","DOIUrl":"10.5603/gpl.95073","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We used the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) risk index to determine risk factors associated with surgical site infections (SSIs) following gynecologic surgeries.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A retrospective study was conducted based on the medical records of 185 patients with SSIs, following gynecologic surgeries at a Grade A tertiary gynecologic and obstetric hospital in southwest China during September 2013-June 2021.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Suspected risk factors associated with SSIs were: length of hospital stay, age, whether the patient had cancer, whether the patient had chemotherapy or high-dose antibiotic therapy before surgery, duration of surgery, amount of blood loss, and whether a blood transfusion was done. It was found that SSIs were more likely to occur in cancer patients with an NNIS risk index score of 1 and in patients with preoperative chemotherapy and an NNIS risk index score of 2. Among the patients with an NNIS risk index score of 2, the older the patient, the higher incidence of SSIs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Gynecologic surgery teams should pay more attention to the independent risk factors associated with SSIs determined by the NNIS risk index score to prevent SSIs following gynecologic surgeries, thus ensuring patient safety.</p>","PeriodicalId":94021,"journal":{"name":"Ginekologia polska","volume":" ","pages":"7-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49686619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ginekologia polskaPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-10-16DOI: 10.5603/gpl.102089
Luo Puying, Yi Sijie, Luo Wenqun, Xiong Yuanhuan
{"title":"Transvaginal single posterior incision extraperitoneal bilateral sacrospinous ligament suspension combined with reconstruction of pericervical ring through cervical cerclage.","authors":"Luo Puying, Yi Sijie, Luo Wenqun, Xiong Yuanhuan","doi":"10.5603/gpl.102089","DOIUrl":"10.5603/gpl.102089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94021,"journal":{"name":"Ginekologia polska","volume":" ","pages":"155-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142484111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}