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- Interventions for preventing bone disease in kidney transplant recipients
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Oct-2019
People who have chronic kidney disease (CKD) have important changes to bone structure, strength, and metabolism. Children experience bone deformity, pain, and delayed or impaired growth. Adults experience limb and vertebral fractures, avascular necrosis,
- Interventions for preventing falls in elderly people
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 10-Nov-2009
Approximately 30 per cent of people over 65 years of age and living in the community fall each year; the number is higher in institutions. Although less than one fall in 10 results in a fracture, a fifth of fall incidents require medical attention.
- Interventions for preventing unintended pregnancies among adolescents
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 3-Feb-2016
Unintended pregnancy among adolescents represents an important public health challenge in high-income countries, as well as middle- and low-income countries. Numerous prevention strategies such as health education, skills-building and improving accessibil
- Interventions for prevention and treatment of vulvovaginal candidiasis in women with HIV infection
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 5-Sep-2011
Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is one of the most common fungal infections that recur frequently in HIV infected women. Symptoms of VVC are pruritis, discomfort, dyspareunia, and dysuria. Vulval infection presents as a morbiliform rash that may extend to
- Interventions for psychosexual dysfunction in women treated for gynaecological malignancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Apr-2009
Psychosexual dysfunction (sexual difficulties not directly due to physical factors) is known to be a common complication of treatment for gynaecological cancer. It has a considerable impact on quality of life (QoL) for the increasing number of women who a
- Interventions for relieving the pain and discomfort of screening mammography
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 4-Sep-2008
The pain of mammography is recognised as a significant deterrent for women considering this examination, and may affect participation in breast screening.
- Interventions for sexual dysfunction following treatments for cancer in women
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 25-Jan-2016
The proportion of people living with and surviving cancer is growing. This has led to increased awareness of the importance of quality of life, including sexual function, in those affected by cancer. Sexual dysfunction is a potential long-term complicatio
- Interventions for the treatment of borderline ovarian tumours
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Feb-2014
The safety of conservative surgery and the benefit of additional interventions after surgery for borderline ovarian tumours are unknown.
- Interventions for the treatment of decreased bone mineral density associated with HIV infection
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 18-Apr-2007
Decreased bone mineral density (BMD) occurs more commonly in patients with HIV than in the general population, making this group more susceptible to fragility fractures. However, bone loss is under-treated in patients with HIV.
- Interventions for treating chronic pelvic pain in women
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Mar-2015
Chronic pelvic pain is common in women in the reproductive and older age groups and causes disability and distress. Often investigation by laparoscopy reveals no obvious cause for the pain. As the pathophysiology of chronic pelvic pain is not well underst
- Interventions for treating genital chlamydia trachomatis infection in pregnancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Oct-1998
Chlamydia trachomatis is a sexually transmitted infection. Mother-to-child transmission can occur at the time of birth and may result in ophthalmia neonatorum or pneumonitis in the newborn.
- Interventions for treating trichomoniasis in women
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 26-Oct-2008
Around 120 million women worldwide suffer fromTrichomonas vaginalis vaginitis every year. The infection is sexually transmitted and is believed to facilitate HIV transmission.
- Interventions for trichomoniasis in pregnancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 11-May-2011
Vaginitis due to Trichomonas vaginalis is one of the most common of sexually transmitted diseases. Trichomoniasis affects women during pregnancy as well but it is not clearly established whether it causes preterm birth and other pregnancy complications.
- Interventions for tubal ectopic pregnancy
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 24-Jan-2007
Treatment options for tubal ectopic pregnancy are; (1) surgery, e.g. salpingectomy or salpingo(s)tomy, either performed laparoscopically or by open surgery; (2) medical treatment, with a variety of drugs, that can be administered systemically and/or local
- Interventions for vaginismus
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Dec-2012
Vaginismus is an involuntary contraction of the vaginal muscles which makes sexual intercourse difficult or impossible. It is one of the more common female psychosexual problems. Various therapeutic strategies for vaginismus, such as sex therapy and desen
- Interventions for women with endometrioma prior to assisted reproductive technology
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 15-Feb-2012
Endometriomata are cysts of endometriosis in the ovaries. As artificial reproductive technology (ART) cycles involve oocyte pickup from the ovaries, endometriomata may interfere with the outcome of ART.
- Interventions targeted at women to encourage the uptake of cervical screening
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 6-Sep-2021
This is an update of the Cochrane review published in Issue 5, 2011.
- Interventions to reduce haemorrhage during myomectomy for fibroids
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 30-Jul-2015
Benign smooth muscle tumours of the uterus, known as fibroids or myomas, are often symptomless. However, about one-third of women with fibroids will present with symptoms that are severe enough to warrant treatment. The standard treatment of symptomatic f
- Intra‐cytoplasmic sperm injection versus conventional techniques for oocyte insemination during in vitro fertilisation in couples with non‐male subfertility
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 22-Apr-2003
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) as treatment for male factor subfertility is associated with lower fertilisation and pregnancy rates than for other indications. Since the late 1980s several assisted fertilisation techniques have emerged and have been rapidly
- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy for the initial management of primary epithelial ovarian cancer
Cochrane Systematic Reviews, 12-Jan-2016
Ovarian cancer tends to be chemosensitive and confine itself to the surface of the peritoneal cavity for much of its natural history. These features have made it an obvious target for intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy. Chemotherapy for ovarian cancer is u
