1.A correlation between ovulatory phase and cytohormonal maturation index of women with affected disorders: a preliminary study
Ang Maria S. ; Delgado Dennis ; Cabrera Mary ann ; Conde Bernardo J.L. ; Navarro Jose C.
The Philippine Journal of Psychiatry 1998;22(2):4-8
Difference in endocrine features between men and women supports a biological hypothesis in affective disorders among women. Studies done showed high probability that mood changes in associated with hormonal alterations, particularly that of estrogen and progesterone. There are cyclic morphological changes occurring in the female reproductive system in response to these hormones.
The cytohormonal maturation index (CHMI) is used to evaluate the female hormonal milieu. A differential of the three types of cells is expressed as percentages of the parabasal (P), the intermediate (I), and the superficial (S) cells, in that order. Predominance of the intermediate cells reflect high levels of progesterone, and the superficial cells that of estrogen.
This study aims to compare the correlation of CHMI with ovulatory phase between women of reproductive age with affective disorder and normal control; and to compare the CHMI of the two groups.
Eight women of reproductive age (mean age = 29.62 +/- 7.95), diagnosed to have affective disorders and having an episode of mania/hypomania or depression, underwent Paps smear. Written consents were obtained. LMP and PMP were obtained to determine the current ovulatory phase. The control group is composed of seven women of same age group (mean age = 29.29 +/- 6.65) having no manifestations of any psychiatric illnesses. Paps smear was performed by a Gynecology Resident. A Pathology Resident blinded to the study reviewed the slides for CHMI.
Fishers exact I test and Mann-Whitney U test were utilized. A p value of 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. There is a significant difference in the proportion of agreement between the ovulatory phase and the CHMI between the two groups (p=0.045). However, there is no difference in the percentages of progesterone and estrogen between the two groups (p=0.247 and 0.452, respectively).
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2.Diet modification based on enhanced recovery after surgery in patients undergoing elective abdominal hysterectomy for benign gynecologic lesions: A randomized controlled trial.
Mary Ann C. BERNARDO ; Jimmy BILLOD
Journal of the Philippine Medical Association 2024;103(1):76-83
OBJECTIVE
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) represents an evidenced-based approach to surgical management challenging traditional paradigms with the goal of maintaining normal physiology perioperatively, hence, these benefits were replicated across the spectrum of gynecologic surgeries. The study aims to determine if there is a significant difference in patient's outcome between ERAS and standard diet who will undergo elective abdominal hysterectomies with or without salpingo oophorectomy for benign gynecologic lesions.
METHODThis study is a single blind, superiority, randomized controlled trial design. Participants were group as ERAS and standard diet. A total of 15 cases in each study arm was judged sufficient to ensure confidence interval of 95%, 80% power (beta error), 5% margin of error, 50 % of exposed with outcome and 0.5% percent of unexposed with outcome generated from OpenEpi Version 3.01. It utilized descriptive and inferential analysis. Comparative analysis was done using Z-test of proportion for categorical variables and MannWhitney test for continuous variable. Two tailed with values of P < 0.05 were concluded statistically significant.
RESULTSBetween January 2021 to December 2021, there were 30 cases participated in this study. ERAS shown better result such as shorter length of hospital stay (pCONCLUSION
The study showed better patient's outcome, postoperative complications and subjective well-being who underwent elective abdominal hysterectomies with or without salpingo-oophorectomy for benign gynecologic lesions under ERAS. Our findings may contribute in the standardization of guidelines for perioperative nutritional care in elective abdominal hysterectomies with or without salpingooophorectomy for benign gynecologic conditions.
Human ; Enhanced Recovery After Surgery ; Fasting ; Postoperative Complications