Background: Pregnant and non-pregnant women are at similar risk for CIN and cervical cancer. The incidence of abnormal cervical cytologic findings during pregnancy is 0.72 to 1.67%. Approximately 86% of all squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) indentified during pregnancy are classified as low-grade SIL, whereas 14% are high- grade SIL. The aim of this study is to assess the incidence of Pap smear abnormalities among antenatal woman presenting to present hospital.Methods: A prospective study was conducted in present medical college hospital in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for a period of one year from Jan 2017 to Dec 2017. A total of 200 antenatal women were included in the study. Ayre’s spatula was used to conduct smear tests in this study. All smears were immediately sprayed with a fixative and sent to the department of Pathology. The cytological results were reported based on the Bethesda classification system 2001.Results: The pap smear report revealed that 26% of the subjects had inflammatory changes and for 66% it showed negative for intraepithelial lesion and for only 1% of the subjects had signs related to carcinoma cervix in which one patient had Atypical Squamous Cell of Undetermined Significance (ASCUS) and another patient had Low-grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion (LSIL) and no satisfactory sample was able to be obtained in 6% of the subjects. In present study authors found a statistically significant association between the age at marriage and the pap smear report, lower the age at marriage (<20 years) higher the incidence of inflammatory changes in the cervix and both the patients who were reported with ASCUS and LSIL were in the age of 15 and 16 years respectively.Conclusions: Clinicians should make every effort to educate, counsel and screen pregnant women if they have not had a Pap test in the past.
The effects of age, parity and male infertility status on pregnancy outcome were studied in a cohort of 720 women receiving donor insemination (DI) treatment. Twenty-two percent of women failed to complete the treatment, leaving 562 women receiving 3202 cycles of DI for assessment. Of the 321 of pregnancies achieved, 57 (17.8%) ended in a miscarriage. After further DI treatments, 64.7% of mothers who had miscarried succeeded in giving birth. There was some evidence to indicate a trend of decreasing pregnancy rate with increasing maternal age, although this result was not significant (log rank trend statistics = 3.44, P > 0.05). The pregnancy rates of multiparous and primiparous women were significantly different, irrespective of their partner's infertility status (azoospermia: log rank statistics = 3.74, P less-than-or-eq, slant 0.05; oligozoospermia: log rank statistics = 4.71, P < 0.03). Furthermore, multiparous women were more likely to become pregnant than primiparous women (azoospermia: hazard ratio = 1.29; oligozoospermia: hazard ratio = 1.50). There was no significant association between miscarriage rate and maternal age (log rank trend statistics = 0.99, P > 0.05). The small number of older women (> 35 years) may confound this result. The mean (plus minus SD) sperm donor age was 23.6 years (plus minus 3.5 years). The implications of these observations are discussed.
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