June 27th 2025
Review some of the top stories from the Contemporary OB/GYN website over the last week, and catch up on anything you may have missed.
Addressing Healthcare Inequities: Tailoring Cancer Screening Plans to Address Inequities in Care
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Clinical Consultations™: Guiding Patients with Genital Psoriasis Toward Relief Through a Multidisciplinary Approach
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Burst CME™: Setting the Stage – Individualizing Migraine Care for Diverse Populations Across Care Settings
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Burst CME™: The Patient Journey – Unmet Needs From Diagnosis Through Management of Migraine
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Burst CME™: Optimizing the Use of CGRP Targeted Agents for the Treatment of Migraine
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Burst CME™: Optimizing Migraine Management – Addressing Unmet Needs, Individualizing Care for Diverse Populations, and Utilizing CGRP Targeted Agents
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‘REEL’ Time Patient Counseling™: Fostering Effective Conversations in Practice to Create a Visible Impact for Patients Living with Genital Psoriasis
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Navigating Low-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer – Enhancing Diagnosis, Sequencing Therapy, and Contextualizing Novel Advances
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Burst CME™: Implementing Appropriate Recognition and Diagnosis of Low-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer
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Burst CME™: Understanding Novel Advances in LGSOC—A Focus on New Mechanisms of Action and Clinical Trials
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Burst CME™: Stratifying Therapy Sequencing for LGSOC and Evaluating the Unmet Needs of the Standard of Care
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Cases and Conversations™: Navigating the Complexities of Managing Myasthenia Gravis in Pediatric and Pregnant Patient Populations
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Expert Illustrations and Commentaries™: Visualizing Glucocorticoid Receptor Modulation in Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer—Looking at Novel Pathways With an Eye Toward the Future of Treatment
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Community Practice Connections™: Optimizing Treatment Outcomes and Preserving Fertility in Premenopausal HR+ Breast Cancer
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Show Me Your Care Plan!™ Insights for Oncology Nurses: Integrating Recent Developments to Improve Outcomes for Patients With Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer
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Show Me Your Care Plan!™ Insights for Oncology Nurses: Integrating Recent Developments to Improve Outcomes for Patients with Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer
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Addressing Healthcare Inequities: Detecting and Managing the Uncommon – Hemophilia in Women
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Should we stop doing episiotomies?
July 1st 2005Routine episiotomies—performed on more than 1 million pregnant women each year in the United States—have no benefits, cause more complications, and should be stopped immediately, according to the authors of a systematic review of the medical research.
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Case Studies in Coding: Coding for colpopexy
May 1st 2005Each year CPT introduces new codes and makes revisions to existingcodes to better reflect current medical practices. CPT 2005 is nodifferent. This month, we'll look at changes in coding for vaginalcolpopexy. The 2005 CPT codes reflect the expansion and improvementof surgical techniques in the area of female reconstructive surgery
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Bariatric surgery and the ob/gyn patient
March 1st 2005Weight loss surgery may increase fertility but it can also heighten her risk of nutritional deficiencies and the GI problems associated with pregnancy. As more patients seek these procedures, ob/gyns need practical guidelines for managing their care.
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Diagnostic Puzzler: A simple UTI that wasn't so simple
March 1st 2005Miss SC was a 21-year-old G4, P0030 at 21 weeks' gestation by last menstrual period and confirmed by second-trimester ultrasound. Her pregnancy, which had been managed through a clinic, was complicated by multiple urinary tract infections and she had recently been diagnosed with pyelonephritis. The condition was treated with IV antibiotics at a community hospital and she was discharged with a prescription for ampicillin to be taken for 7 days. Miss SC said she felt well until 2 days before her second admission to the same community hospital, when she began having sharp, intermittent right upper-quadrant pain that was unrelated to eating.
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Microsurgical solutions to male infertility (Part 2)
February 1st 2005What causes male infertility? Look to the Y chromosome, says this leading expert. Among the high-tech solutions worth considering: testicular sperm extraction (TESE), microsurgical epididymal sperm retrieval (MESA), and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
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Grand Rounds: Sexual dysfunction: a couples issue
December 1st 2004Many women have sexual dysfunction, and effective treatments are available for some conditions. Routinely discussing sexual function with your patients, and their partners, is important because dysfunction truly is a couples issue.
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Patient ed tool improves decision making for breast Ca
November 1st 2004Specially designed visual aids and written materials-intended to help surgeons present treatment options to women newly diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer and to help them participate in the treatment decision process-left women better educated about their disease and treatment options.
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Evaluating the infertile male, Part 1
October 1st 2004An expert in infertility and microsurgery explains how to interpret semen analysis in Part 1 of a two-part series on male infertility. He also tells why much traditional treatment of male infertility, including varicocelectomy, is pointless.
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U/S Clinics: Diagnosing and managing mild fetal cerebral ventriculomegaly
September 1st 2004Thanks to advances in U/S technology, clinicians can now detect ventricular enlargement in its earliest stages. Unfortunately, a few fetuses with borderline ventriculomegaly still have chromosomal or structural malformations.
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Preventing perineal lacerations during labor
September 1st 2004Using a technique called super crowning, avoiding episiotomy, and reaching for a vacuum device rather than forceps during operative vaginal deliveries are among the strategies that can help reduce the number of third- and fourth-degree lacerations.
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