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Re: Gyn: It's fun to be a gynecologist From: Glen Elrod (dr99645@yahoo.com) Fri Mar 21 14:52:22 2008 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Hemant Damle: "Re: Palpating head above pelvic brim" Previous message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Palpating head above pelvic brim" Maybe in reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Gyn: It's fun to be a gynecologist" I read somewhere that in women with a perforated Mirena the circulating level of hormone was higher than those that had it properly placed. So i think close is really good enough. Glen >----- Original Message ---- From: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C. <johnprov@sympatico.ca> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 1:46:35 AM Subject: Re: Gyn: It's fun to be a gynecologist At Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Garry E. Siegel, M.D. wrote: > >Hyst is obvious, but she's not ready. > >I assume that placement of a Mirena wouldn't necessarily be easy, and >what if it is in one horn and doesn't really affect the endometrium of >the other one? > >Garry > It will Garry it only has to be in the neighborhood to work, we reviewed this last year I believe in relation to perforated Mirena's. I just saw a Mom for a post partum visit who had a mirena sitting in the left side of the pelvis, no periods for 3 years and trying to concieve, her periods returned within 3 months of removing it laproscopically and she concieved within 5 months. The paper abtstract from Israel I posted actually showed higher serum levels when its in the abdominal cavity. -- Take care, John ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and ____________________________________________________________________________________ know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ Next message: Hemant Damle: "Re: Palpating head above pelvic brim" Previous message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: Palpating head above pelvic brim" Maybe in reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "Gyn: It's fun to be a gynecologist"

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