Volume 54, Number 9, September 2009

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Awoniyi O. Awonuga, M.B.B.S., Anthony N. Imudia, M.D., Valerie I. Shavell, M.D., Jay Berman, M.D., Michael P. Diamond, M.D., and Elizabeth E. Puscheck, M.D.
Tubal sterilization is an effective method of permanent contraception but can fail; therefore, counseling should involve why failures occur and options should sterilization fail.
   
548
James M. Goldfarb, M.D., M.B.A., Nancy Lerner Fisher, J.D., Laura Gillespie, M.D., Cynthia M. Austin, M.D., Hanna Lisbona, M.D., Barry D. Peskin, M.D., and Nina Desai, Ph.D.
The Partnership for Families Program is a philanthropic organization that provides in vitro fertilization cycles and fertility-sparing procedures for financially needy patients.
 
 


553
Elisabeth A. Erekson, M.D., Sherry Weitzen, Ph.D., Vivian W. Sung, M.D., M.P.H., Christina A. Raker, Sc.D., and Deborah L. Myers, M.D.
Socioeconomic indicators of education level and income are associated with hysterectomy status; however, employment status is not.
 
 


559
James P. Reichmann, M.B.A.
Contractions in multiple gestations are not predictive of preterm birth.
 
 


563
Barry D. Weiss, M.D., Carole P. Sheehan, R.N., M.S., and Lisa Lee Gushwa, M.D.
After assessing the literacy skills of postpartum women, limited literacy was found to be a risk factor for subsequent symptoms of postpartum depression.
 
 


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Gyun-Ho Jeon, M.D., So-Ra Kim, M.D., Sung-Hoon Kim, M.D., Hee-Dong Chae, M.D., Chung-Hoon Kim, M.D., and Byung-Moon Kang, M.D.
The causative factors (anatomic, immunologic, unexplained, endocrine, genetic and infectious) of recurrent miscarriages in Koreans differed from those in Western studies in the frequency of causes.
 
 


  Case Reports
576
Fengzhi Feng, M.D., Yang Xiang, M.D., and Yang Cao, M.D.
A woman with a spinal canal metastasis from gestational trophoblastic neoplasia was treated successfully by chemotherapy.
 
 


579
Loralei L. Thornburg, M.D., Nathan Christensen, M.D., Nirupama Laroia, M.D., and Eva K. Pressman, M.D.
In a rare case of congenital arhinia, with total absence of the nose, the condition was suspected prenatally with a normal chromosomal microarray.
 
 


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Neil T. Phippen, M.A., and Charles A. Leath, III, M.D.
Weekly topotecan and daily thalidomide therapy may be a reasonable treatment option for patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer.
 
 


587
Abraham Hamaoui, M.D., Sc.D. (USP), and Ray Mercado, D.O.
The management of the coexistence of preeclampsia and myasthenia requires a multidisciplinary team, judicious choice of medication, intensive care setting and monitoring of respiratory parameters.