Juniper Publishers Journal of Reproductive Medicine

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine    Juniper Publishers Authored  by:  Duygu Kavuncuoglu* Introduction In the twenty-first century; there have been many developments in medicine such as finding new diagnostic and treatment methods; demographic and epidemiological transformation; changing disease burdens and increasing the burden of non-communicable diseases; increasing the importance of gaining healthy lifestyle behaviors to individuals and preventive health services rather than therapeutic health services. In addition; advances in communication technology have increased the resources for people to obtain health information and access to information has become easier. As a result of the developments both in the field of medicine and technology; the health care providers and the areas where the service is provided have increased as well as the share of health care providers-demanders in the process of making medical decisions-in the management of ...

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine    Juniper Publishers Authored by:  Mamata Sherpa Awasthi* Introduction Over fourteen hundred different infectious agents cause diseases in humans of which around three hundred pathogens are clinically important [1]. Although developing countries are epitomized as reservoirs for infectious diseases, developed countries also bear the disease burden. Australia reports 67 different types of prevalent infectious diseases of which 40.1% are sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), 34.4% vaccine preventable diseases and 13.8% gastrointestinal diseases [2]. Common infectious diseases occurring in developing countries such as STDs, influenza, measles, hepatitis A B and C, cholera, botulism, dengue, malaria also exist in Australia [2]. This paper elaborates on dengue and chlamydia, and the factors that would affect the transmission and natural history of the two in three different settings. Dengue Dengue is a common mosquito ...

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine    Juniper Publishers Authored by:   Yasmina José Gutiérrez* Introduction The current standard of care for women who will be diagnosed with cervical cáncer includes radical hysterectomy or trachelectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy. For women with early-stage cervical cancer, lymph node status is the most important prognosticator of survival. However, the majority of these patients will not have lymph node metastases. For women with cervical cancer, ideally we would optimize the identification of positive lymph node spread in the minority of patients while limiting the morbidity of lymph node dissection for the majority of women who will ultimately have negative nodes. For that reason, there is significant interest in validating lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy for women with this disease. The sentinel lymph node is the first node that receives drainage from the primary tumor. Therefore, if th...

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine    Juniper Publishers Authored by:  Joel Noutakdie Tochie* Introduction “Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)” commonly called Traditional medicine in Africa is the sum of all knowledge, skills and practices that are based on the theories, beliefs and experiences of health preservation, specific to different cultures, whether explainable or not, which are used in health preservation, as well as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement or treatment of physical or mental illness [1]. In CAM, drugs of the traditional pharmacopoeia, called “herbal medicines” are used. The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of the general populations, especially women make use of it [1,2]. According to a study conducted in 2012 in Cameroon, 31.02% of women use CAM during the second half of pregnancy [4]. However, its intake during pregnancy is associated with obstetrical, foetal and neonatal complications. A study conducte...

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine    Juniper Publishers Authored by: Susana Pereira* Introduction Osteoporosis is characterised by low bone mass secondary to inadequate acquisition of peak bone mass and/or increased bone loss. Osteoblastic and osteoclastic imbalances result in reduced bone mineral density (BMD), disrupting bone’s normal microarchitecture and predisposing to fragility fracture [1]. The prevalence of osteoporosis in premenopausal women is approximately 0.5%. Where there are no secondary causes of osteoporosis found (Table 1), it is termed idiopathic osteoporosis. Pregnancy and lactation are thought to cause secondary osteoporosis (PLO) [2]. The overall incidence of PLO remains largely unknown due to a lack of large scale population based data in this area [3]. Little is known about managing pregnancy induced BMD loss superimposed on pre-existing osteoporosis. This case illustrates the challenges faced in balancing the obstetric, medical and ort...