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The Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome affects 1 out of 4500 women. It is characterized by the congenital absence of the upper third of the vagina, uterus and tubes; it is usually associated to renal malformations, and patients show normal phenotype and genotype. Age at diagnosis is between 15 and 18. A case is reported and a critical review of the information about the management alternatives of patients with MRKH syndrome available in medical literature is made. The paper is intended to help establish the best criteria and treatment options for a comprehensive therapeutic approach to MRKH patients.

Background: Biliary pathology is the second cause of abdominal acute pain during pregnancy. The surgical approach most often used for the treatment of acute cholecystitis during pregnancy is laparoscopy. Some aspects have made this approach during pregnancy controversial., Objectives: To analyze the maternal-fetal benefits and complications of laparoscopic cholecystectomy during pregnancy and compare these results with the medical literature., Material and Methods: It is a retrospective, transverse study. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy cases and pregnancy from 2005 to 2009 at Hospital Español de Mexico city were reviewed. The following information was obtained: maternal age, gestational age, signs and symptoms, medical department that made the diagnosis, the laparoscopic entry techniques, the monitoring of CO2 for the pressure of pneumoperitoneum, the complications in the peri and postoperatory state, the use of tocolytics medication and other medicines in the hospital stay, maternal and perinatal morbi-morbility, days of hospitable stay, follow-up surgical postintervention in the office. We did a comparation of our results with the medical literature., Results: 10 laparoscopic cholecystectomies were performed. Gestational ages were from 15 to 25 weeks. The incidence was 1:995. All the cases were diagnosed by doctors of the department of general surgery, and also the surgeries. 2/10 patients were in preterm delivery risk at 35 weeks of gestation. There was not any fetal loss or maternal death., Conclusions: Our results are similar with the literature research, and we confirm that laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a safe therapeutic option for gravid patients, which has minimal fetal-maternal morbidity.

Objective: To analyze both clinical and surgical characteristics of patients with no oncologic diseases treated with any variant of laparoscopic hysterectomy during the 1996-2005 period in Hospital Español de Mexico, and compare them with the reported in literature., Method and Patients: Retrospective, longitudinal, descriptive, not experimental. Total 376 patients; group 1, 204 with laparoscopic hysterectomy; group 2, 157 laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy; group 3, 15 laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy., Results: Mean age similar for each group (43.9, 44.4 and 44.8), larger numberof patients with at least one previous vaginal delivery compared with cesarean in the first two groups (65.7 vs 55.5%, 77.7 vs. 15.2%); identical in the third group (40 vs. 40%). The 51.5% had at least one previous gynecological-obstetric surgery (52.9, 49.0 and 60%). The mean uterine length was similar in the 3 groups (9.6, 9.8 y 10.9 cm). The most predominant diagnosis was uterine leiomyomata (75, 50.6 and 73.3%). The mean surgical time was shorter in the third group (159.5, 158 and 117.6 min.). Hospital stay was shorter in the third group (2.6, 2.9 and 2.2 days). Group 3 had no minor or major complications. The corresponding major complications was 1.9% (group 1) and 1.8% (group 2); minor complications was 4.9% y 3.1% for groups 1 and two respectively., Conclusions: There were no significant differences between the clinical and surgical characteristics regarding patients and surgical procedure, therefore they could be offered for the vast majority of patients with no oncologic disease.