Centre for Women's Health Research

2002 Publications

Tsaltas, J., Healy, D.L & Lloyd, D.  Complications of laparoscopy: a tautological audit. Gynaecological Endoscopy 2001: 10:1:17-19

Venn, A., Jones, P., Quinn, M., Healy, D.  Gynecologic Oncology 2001:82:1:64-68

Venn, A., Hemminki, Watson, L., Bruinsma, F & Healy, D.  Mortality in a cohort of IVF patients. Hum Reprod 2001:16:12:2691-2696

Burrows, RF.  Platelet disorders in pregnancy.  Current Opinion in Obstetrics & Gynaecology 2001;13:115-119

Spencer JA, Burrows RF.  Feto-Maternal Alloimmune thrombocytopenia: a literature review and statistical analysis.  Aust NZ J Obstet Gynaecol 2001;41:1:45-55

Burrows RF, Gan ET, Gallus AS, Wallace EM, Burrows EA.  A randomized double blind placebo controlled trial of low molecular weight heparin as prophylaxis in preventing venous thrombotic events after caesarean section: a pilot study.  BJOG. 2001;108:1-5

Ray JG, Burrows RF, Vermeulen MJ.  MOS HIP: McMaster Outcome Study of Hypertension in Pregnancy.  Early Human Development 2001;64:129-43

McDonagh RG, Ray JG, Burrows RF, Burrows EA, Vermuelen MJ.  Platelet count may predict abnormal bleeding time among pregnant women with hypertension and preeclampsia.  Canadian J Anaesthesia 2001;48:563-9

Hague WM, North RA, Gallus AS, Walters BNJ, Burrows RF, Cincotta RB, Dekker GA, Higgins JR, Lowe SA, Morris JM, Peek MJ.  Anticoagulation in pregnancy and the puerperium.   MJA 2001;175:258-263

Achen MG, Williams RA, Minekus M, Stenvers K, Rogers PAW, Lederman F, Roufail S, Stacker SA.  (2001) Localization of vascular endothelial growth factor-D in malignant melanoma indicates a role in tumor angiogenesis.  J Pathol 193: 147-154

Hampton AL, Rogers PAW, Affandi B, Salamonsen LA.  (2001) Expression of the chemokines, monocyte chemotactic protein (MCP)-1 and MCP-2 in endometrium of normal women and Norplantâ users does not support a central role in macrophage infiltration into endometrium.  J Rep Immunol Vol 49:2: 115-132

Gargett CE, Rogers PAW.  (2001) Human Endometrial angiogenesis.  Reviews Reproduction 121:2: 181-186

Holmes AJ, Tujula NA, Holley M, Contos A, James JM, Rogers P & Gillings MR (2001) Phylogenetic structure of unusual aquatic microbial formations in Nullarbor caves, Australia.   Environmental Microbiology 3:256-264

Gargett CE, Lederman F, Heryanto B, Gambino LS, Rogers PAW. (2001) Focal vascular endothelial growth factor correlates with angiogenesis in human endometrium.  Hum Reprod 16:1065-1075

Rabbani M (LOFTI-MIRI), Rogers PAW (2001) Role of vascular endothelial growth factor in endometrial vascular events before implantation in rats. Reprod 122: 85-90

Contos AK, James JM, Heywood B, Pitt K & Rogers PAW. (2001) Morphoanalysis of Bacterially Precipitated Subaqueous Calcium Carbonate from Weebubbie Cave, Australia .  Geomicrobiol. J. 18:331-343

Jenkin G, Ward J, Hooper SB, O’Conner AE, de Kretser D, Wallace EM,Feto-placental hypoxaemia regulates the release of fetal activin A and prostaglandin E2. Endocrinology 2001; 142:963-966,

Mulvey S, Wallace EM,Levels of knowledge of Down syndrome and Down syndrome testing in Australian women. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology  2001;41:167-169

Jenkin G, Ward J, Loose J, Schneider-Kolsky M, Young R, Canny B, O’Connor A, de Kretser D, Wallace E. Physiological and regulatory roles of activin A in pregnancy. Molecular Cellular Endocrinology 2001;180:131-138.

Wallace EM, D’Antona D, Veveris-Lowe T, Crossley JA, Barnard R,Maternal serum growth hormone-binding protein: a paradoxical shift in trisomy 18. BJOG 2001;108: 701-703

Mulvey S, Partridge JC, Martinez AM, Yu, V, Wallace EM,The management of extremely premature infants and the perceptions of viability and parental counselling practices of Australian obstetricians Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2001;41:269-274

Wallace EM, Mulvey S,Results may not be widely applicable. Commentary on: Gilbert RE, et al. Screening for Down’s syndrome: effects, safety, and cost effectiveness of first and second trimester strategies. British Medical Journal 2001;323:5-6

Thirunavukarasu PP, Wallace EM,Measurement of inhibin A: a modification to an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Prenatal Diagnosis 2001;21:638-641

Schneider-Kolsky M, Manuelpillai U, Gargett C, Wallace EM,Activin A-subunit and activin receptors in human myometrium at term and during labour. BJOG 2001;108: 869-874

Manuelpillai U, Schneider-Kolsky M, Dole A, Wallace EM,Activin A and activin receptors in gestational tissue from preeclamptic pregnancies. Journal of Endocrinology 2001;171:57-64

Lethaby A, Vollenhoven B, Sowter M.  Pre-operative GnRH analogue therapy before hysterectomy or myomectomy for uterine fibroids (Cochrane Review).  In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 2, 2001. Oxford: Update Software.

 The International Recombinant Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin Study Group.  Induction of ovulation in World Health Organization group II anovulatory women undergoing follicular stimulation with recombinant human follicle-stimulating hormone: a comparison of recombinant human chorionic gonadotrophin (rhCG) and urinary hCG.  Fertility & Sterility, 2001 75, 1111-1118.

Tong S, Jefferes J, Lopes R, Vollenhoven B.  Delayed presentation of uterine perforation and haemorrhagic shock 10 days after surgical termination of pregnancy.  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2001 41, 335-336.

Ang WC, Farrell E, Vollenhoven B.  Effect of hormone replacement therapies and selective estrogen receptor modulators in postmenopausal women with uterine leiomyomas: a literature review.  Climacteric, 2001 4, 284-292.

Mirza T., Kovacs G.T. and Kinfu, Y. Serving rural Australia with reproductive health expertise.  Aust J Rural Health 2001 9:241-245.

Millar, JR., Leach, D.S., Maclean, A.V. and Kovacs, G.T.  The use of emergency contraception in Australasian emergency departments.  Emergency Medicine 2001 13: 314-318.

Kovacs, G and Wood, C.  The current status of polycystic ovary syndrome.  Aust NZ Obstet Gynaecol 2001 41:1: 65-68

Kovacs, T.T., MacLachlan, V and Brehny, S.  What is the probability of conception for couples entering an IVF program?  Aust NZ Obstet Gynaecol 2001 41:2:207-209.

Books
Reproductive Medicine in the Twenty-first Century, The Parthenon Publishing Group, New York , USA, 220-225, in D. Healy, G. Kovacs, R. McLachlan & O. Rodriquez-Armas (eds), Proceedings of 17^th World Congress on Fertility and Sterility, November 2001, Melbourne, Australia

Book Chapters
Healy, D., and Venn, A.   Cancer after infertility.  Baillieres Clinics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Healy, D., Vollenhoven, B. and Weston, G. Uterine Fibroids – Third Edition Gynaecology, Shaw, Soutter and Stanton.

Burrows RF  Hemorrhagic complications in the obstetric patient.  Hemostasis and Thrombosis. 4^th edition.  Colman RW, Hirsh J, Marder VJ, Clowed AW, George JN, (eds).  2001 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Rogers, P.A.W., ‘Review of angiogenesis’, Reproductive Medicine in the Twenty-first Century, The Parthenon Publishing Group, New York , USA, 220-225, in D. Healy, G. Kovacs, R. McLachlan & O. Rodriquez-Armas (eds), Proceedings of 17^th World Congress on Fertility and Sterility, Melbourne, Australia

Rogers, P.A.W. & Gargett, C.E., ‘The Vascular System in the Endometrium: Introduction and Overview, Vascular Morphogenesis in the Female Reproductive System, Birkhauser Boston, c/o Springer-Verlag, New York, USA, 209-222, in H.G. Austin, M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe, P.A.W. Rogers & S. K. Smith (eds), Roger R. Markwald (Series) (ed) Cardiovascular Molecular Morphogenesis

Editorials in Refereed Journals and Major Reviews in Serialised Volumes

Bailliere’s Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology.  International Practice and Research.  Uterine Fibroids.  Volume 12, Number 2.  Vollenhoven B (guest editor). Bailliere Tindall 1998