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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
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5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
From the Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
From the Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Distinguish University Professor, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Social and Scientific Systems, Inc., Durham, NC.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Magee-Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Magee Womens Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Orion Biotechnology, Ottawa, Canada.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA.
Publications dans "Douche vaginale" :
Vaginal douching is practiced by women for various reasons. Studies have shown that this practice can upset the normal vaginal flora, increasing susceptibility to certain sexually transmitted diseases...
A cross-sectional survey was conducted to gather data on the prevalence of vaginal douching among young women and their beliefs, motivations, and knowledge about the practice. A structured questionnai...
The study established that more than half of the participants (69.6%) engaged in douching with a midpoint of 19.5. The study indicated no significant difference between the age of participants and dou...
Most women in the study community recruited, regardless of their educational and marital status, believed that douching is necessary and considered part of feminine hygiene practices. Practicing douch...
Vaginal douching, a practice that has existed for many years, is defined as the process of intravaginal cleansing using a liquid solution. Despite its negative consequences with respect to health, vag...
Vaginal pH has been suggested to be one of the causative factors, responsible for variation in prostaglandin efficacy for induction of labour. The purpose of this study was to analyse the effect of va...
This randomised controlled study was done in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for a period of 1 year. Using a computer-generated random number table, subjects were allocated in two groups....
There was a significant increase in the vaginal pH after douching with normal saline (4.91 vs 5.52,...
Although douching with normal saline increases vaginal pH, douching does not help in increasing the chances of vaginal delivery because it gives a transient effect. Rather, it is intrinsic vaginal pH,...
To determine the effect of genital hygiene behavior (GHB) and vaginal douching (VD) of pregnant women on preterm labor (PTL)....
This study, which was conducted with 365 pregnant women, is a cross-sectional study. Data were collected using a questionnaire and the Genital Hygiene Behavior Inventory (GHBI) was applied....
The ratios of PTL diagnosis and VD practice, and mean GHBI scores of the pregnant women were 35.1%, 9.6%, and 64.42 ± 10.44, respectively. The prevalence of receiving a diagnosis of PTL was significan...
These results can help pregnant women to understand the relationship between genital hygiene and PTL and show the importance of being educated by health professionals about this issue....
Vaginal douching is a centuries-old practice which is still in use, especially among adolescents. "Probiotic douches" are the vaginal douches that are formulated with probiotics and are intended to re...
Genital talc and douching are practices that can involve exposure to chemical compounds linked to certain gynecologic cancers. However, it is unclear if they are associated with fibroid risk or age at...
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of early-adolescence genital talc use and douching on prevalence of fibroids diagnosed before the age of 35 and 50 years among Black/African American and non-Hi...
Data were derived from the Sister Study (2003-2020), a prospective cohort of 50,884 US women aged 35 to 74 years at enrollment. Participants were asked if they ever had a fibroid diagnosis and at what...
Among Black/African American women, 29% had fibroids diagnosed before age 35. Both genital talc use at age 10 to 13 (adjusted odds ratio, 1.23; confidence interval, 1.06-1.41) and douching (adjusted o...
Genital talc use in early adolescence, alone and in combination with douching (but not douching alone), is associated with prevalence of fibroids diagnosed before age 35 among Black/African American w...
Cervical cancer survivors can experience vaginal length shortening, vaginal stenosis, vaginal elasticity deterioration, sexual frequency reduction and sexual dysfunction. This prospective, uncontrolle...
A total of 139 patients completed the study. They received 6 months of vaginal dilation therapy. We evaluated their vaginal elasticity, vaginal diameter, vaginal length and sexual function before and ...
Age, vaginal diameter and sexual intercourse frequency before diagnosis were significantly associated with female sexual dysfunction of the patients after cancer treatment. Vaginal dilation therapy im...
Cervical cancer survivors who had not received timely vaginal dilation still benefitted from vaginal dilation therapy, irrespective of the treatment methods they received. Moreover, vaginal dilation t...
The purpose was to review relevant clinical data and formulate recommendations supporting the use of saline as a simple rinse for an early reassuring intervention to reduce the occurrence of re-positi...
We conducted a single-centre retrospective cohort study, which enrolled patients with confirmed re-testing positive COVID-19 during 7-60 days after discharge from Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen. ...
A total of 223 patients were included in our study, 94 in re-positive group and 129 in non-re-positive group. The result shows that the rates of nasal douche treatment in the non-re-positive group wer...
These findings suggest that nasal douche is beneficial to shorten the time of virus nucleic acid turning negative, thereby reducing the incidence of re-positive. The prevention and control of epidemic...
Bacterial vaginosis (BV), a common syndrome characterized by...
The vaginal microbiome (VMB) has been classified into several discrete community state types, some of which have been associated with adverse human health conditions. However, the roles of the many va...
The associations among the vaginal taxa and other vaginal taxa, the vaginal pH, and the host gene expression responses were determined by calculating the correlation among the relative abundance of th...
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This study sheds light on the biological characteristics of the vaginal microbiota, including some less abundant or still unculturable taxa. Since the BVT method was established based on these biologi...
This work was supported by grants [UH3AI083263, U54HD080784, and R01HD092415] from the National Institutes of Health; and support from the [GAPPS BMGF PPB] grant from the Global Alliance to Prevent Pr...