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Female Pelvic and Reconstructive Surgery (FPRS) is a multidisciplinary subspecialty that combines the efforts of different professionals to benefit women with pelvic floor disorders. Gynecologists, urologists and colorectal surgeons are working simultaneously and trying to offer the best treatment to their patients. However, each medical specialty presents different backgrounds, and this leads to different points […]

A worldwide acknowledged way of evaluating the life conditions of a population, in particular or in general, is to use health indicators that may be represented as rates or ratios. Such indexes are essential for the quality of the planning of programs and services, interfering directly in their efficiency. Furthermore, those indicators reflect substantially the […]

The increased occurrence of syphilis during pregnancy, and its severe repercussions to the fetal environment, has been a cause for concern among health care professionals. It is hard to comprehend why congenital syphilis has not yet been controlled, since its agent, the spirochaete Treponema pallidum, is well known and is highly susceptible to penicillin, a […]

Hypertensive disease of pregnancy, postpartum hemorrhage and infectious syndromes in pregnancy and puerperium are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality for pregnant women around the world. Their frequency varies according to the country and accessibility to health care. Hypertensive diseases, including preeclampsia, complicate 2–10% of all pregnancies. In Latin America and the Caribbean, hypertensive […]

The prevalence of endometrial polyps in postmenopausal women can be as high as 35%, and it has been steadily increasing with the wide dissemination of ultrasound in the routine gynecological practice. Endometrial polyps are important because they can cause symptoms, and might be associated with endometrial cancer. The percentage of malignant lesions found in association […]

The zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus belonging to the genus Flavivirus of the Flaviviridae family that is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. It has a transmission mechanism similar to dengue, yellow fever, and chikungunya viruses. The first description of ZIKV occurred in 1947 when it was isolated in Rhesus monkeys used as […]

Unintended pregnancies are a major public health concern worldwide. In Brazil, as much as 55% of pregnancies are unplanned. Unplanned pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of maternal, neonatal and infant morbidity and mortality. It also reduces educational and career opportunities for mothers, and it may contribute to socioeconomic deprivation and widening income disparities. […]

Estimates indicate that around 16,000 new cases of cervical cancer were diagnosed in 2014 in Brazil. This cancer is the third most frequent in Brazil, the first in the North region, and the fifth in the South region of the country. The Unified Health System (SUS), the public health care system of Brazil, has implemented […]