Gynecologic Surgery
From the Journals
Add AFib to noncardiac surgery risk evaluation: New support
Preexisting atrial fibrillation should again be part of pre–noncardiac surgery cardiac risk assessment, argues a new report.
Conference Coverage
Surgeons may underestimate recovery from incontinence operation
The researchers found that just over 40% of women reported returning to work and other normal activities within 2 weeks of having undergone...
Latest News
Women are not being warned that anesthetic may reduce birth pill efficacy
“Use of sugammadex is expected to rise as it becomes cheaper in the future, and ensuring that women receiving this medicine are aware it may...
Opinion
Müllerian anomalies – old problem, new approach and classification
A diagnosis of müllerian anomalies justifies a comprehensive consultation with the patient given the risk of pregnancy complications.
Opinion
Optimizing ‘optimal’ in ovarian cancer cytoreduction
While pafolacianine promises to move us closer to a true “R0” (negative margins) resection of ovarian cancer, is this even a feasible goal in a...
Latest News
Doc’s botched surgery leads to incontinence and $10 million judgment; more
Though successful, the procedure still left Ms. Nugent with, what are for now at least, intractable symptoms.
Opinion
Detransition, baby: Examining factors leading to ‘detransitioning’ and regret in the transgender community
Comments about the finality of gender-affirmative procedures by cisgender people reveal a more deep-seated issue – general distrust of individual...
Conference Coverage
Racial disparities found in treatment of tubal pregnancies
Black and Latina women are 50% less likely to undergo a minimally invasive procedure to treat ectopic pregnancy compared with their White peers,...
Feature
MDs doing wrong-site surgery: Why is it still happening?
“When they make a wrong-site error, usually the first thing they say is, ‘I never thought this would happen to me.’ ”
From the Journals
Pelvic floor dysfunction imaging: New guidelines provide recommendations
“These diseases do not choose an arbitrary side in the pelvis ... Instead, [they] affect the entire pelvis and require a multidisciplinary and...
Commentary
How physicians can provide better care to transgender patients
Those transgender patients who seek care often have unpleasant experiences.