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Uterine Myomas: Recent Advances in their Treatment -Journal of Gynecology and Women’s Health-Juniper Publishers JUNIPER PUBLISHERS- JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH UTERINE MYOMAS: RECENT ADVANCES IN THEIR TREATMENT Authored by Georgios Androutsopoulos Nowadays, uterine myomas represent a very common clinical entity. Approximately 20%-40% of the women in the reproductive age have uterine myomas . However, in menopause there is a significant decrease in the incidence of uterine myomas. A lot of patients with uterine myomas have no symptoms, because these tumors are usually asymptomatic. Nevertheless, patients with uterine myomas may have: abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic pain, pressure complaints, infertility and pregnancy-related complications. For more open access journals in JuniperPublishers please click on: https://juniperpublishers.com/ For more articles on Gynecology and Women’s Health please click on: https://juniperpublis

Value of Urocortin as a Marker for Preterm Labor -Journal of Gynecology and Women’s Health-Juniper Publishers JUNIPER PUBLISHERS- JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY AND WOMEN’S HEALTH VALUE OF UROCORTIN AS A MARKER FOR PRETERM LABOR Authored by Haitham Abdel Mohsen Sabaa Introduction: Preterm delivery is responsible for considerable neonatal morbidity and mortality, accurate predication could decrease such complications different biological markers have been suggested to predict preterm labor, maternal plasma urocortin level was suggested as a marker. Methods: 100 women diagnosed with threatened preterm labor were included in the study and their blood level of urocortin was measured at admission time and its level was correlated with the occurrence of established preterm labor. Results: The best cutoff criterion of plasma urocortin level was more than 365.2 pg/ml with sensitivity at 87% (CI: 73.7 – 95.1) and specificity of 100% (CI: 93.4 – 100). Foll