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The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inc.
2016 Maintenance of Certification
Part II - Annual Board Certification
General Obstetrics and Gynecology
January 2016 Reading Assignment List
Gynecology
Ashwal E, Hiersch L, Krissi H, Eitan R, Less S, Wiznitzer A, et al. Characteristics and management of ovarian torsion in premenarchal compared with postmenarchal patients. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:514-20.
PMID: 26244532
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia. Committee Opinion No. 631. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;125:1272-8.
PMID: 25932867
Hopkins MR, Laughlin-Tommaso SK, Wall DJ, Breitkopf DM, Creedon DJ, El-Nashar SA, et al. Hysterosalpingography after radiofrequency endometrial ablation and hysteroscopic sterilization as a concomitant procedure. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:628-34.
PMID: 26181089
Brunham RC, Gottlieb SL, Paavonen J. Pelvic inflammatory disease. N Engl J Med. 2015;372:2039-48.
PMID: 25992748
Fairchild PS, Kamdar NS, Berger MB, Morgan DM. Rates of colpopexy and colporrhaphy at the time of hysterectomy for prolapse. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015; DOI: S0002-9378(15)01001-7 [pii].
PMID: 26366666
Obstetrics
Late addition! Petersen EE, Staples JE, Meaney-Delman D, et al. Interim guidelines for pregnant women during a Zika virus outbreak - United States, 2016. Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016;65(2):30-3.
PMID: 26796813
Manning JB, Tolcher MC, Chandraharan E, Rose CH. Delivery of an impacted fetal head during Cesarean: a literature review and proposed management algorithm. Obstet Gynecol Surv. 2015;70:719-24.
PMID: 26584721
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Obesity in pregnancy. Practice Bulletin No 156. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:e112-26.
PMID: 26595582
Cunningham FG, Nelson DB. Disseminated Intravascular coagulation syndromes in obstetrics. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:999-1011.
PMID: 26444122
Morris JM, Roberts CL, Bowen JR, Patterson JA, Bond DM, Algert CS, et al. Immediate delivery compared with expectant management after preterm pre-labour rupture of the membranes close to term (PPROMT trial): a randomised controlled trial. PPROMT Collaboration. Lancet. 2015; DOI: S0140-6736(15)00724-2.
PMID: 26564381
Bauer ME, Lorenz RP, Bauer ST, Rao K, Anderson FW. Maternal deaths due to sepsis in the state of Michigan, 1999-2006. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:747-52.
PMID: 26348189
Office Practice
Kavanaugh ML, Jerman J, Finer LB. Changes in use of long-acting reversible contraceptive methods among U.S. women, 2009-2012. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:917-27.
PMID: 26444110
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dual therapy for gonococcal infections. Committee Opinion No. 645. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:e95-9.
PMID: 26488526
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Urinary incontinence in women. Practice Bulletin No. 155. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:e66-81.
PMID: 26488524
Ethics Committee of American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Access to fertility treatment by gays, lesbians, and unmarried persons: a committee opinion. Fertil Steril. 2013;100:1524-7.
PMID: 24094420
DiVasta AD, Feldman HA, Sadler Gallagher J, Stokes NA, Laufer MR, Hornstein MD, et al. Hormonal add-back therapy for females treated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist for endometriosis: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:617-27.
PMID: 26181088
Female Pelvic Medicine Reconstructive Surgery
Fritel X, de Tayrac R, Bader G, Savary D, Gueye A, Deffieux X, et al. Preventing urinary incontinence with supervised prenatal pelvic floor exercises: a randomized controlled trial. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:370-7.
PMID: 26241428
Reynolds WS, McPheeters M, Blume J, Surawicz T, Worley K, Wang L, et al. Comparative effectiveness of anticholinergic therapy for overactive bladder in women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;125:1423-32.
PMID: 26000514
Memon HU, Blomquist JL, Dietz HP, Pierce CB, Weinstein MM, Handa VL. Comparison of levator ani muscle avulsion injury after forceps-assisted and vacuum-assisted vaginal childbirth. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;125:1080-7.
PMID: 25932835
Foxman B, Cronenwett AE, Spino C, Berger MB, Morgan DM. Cranberry juice capsules and urinary tract infection after surgery: results of a randomized trial. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015;213:194.e1-8.
PMID: 25882919
Miller JM, Low LK, Zielinski R, Smith AR, DeLancey JO, Brandon C. Evaluating maternal recovery from labor and delivery: bone and levator ani injuries. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015;213:188.e1-11.
PMID: 25957022
Lee JK, Rosamilia A, Dwyer PL, Lim YN, Muller R. Randomized trial of a single incision versus an outside-in transobturator midurethral sling in women with stress urinary incontinence: 12 month results. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015;213:35.e1-9.
PMID: 25637849
Gynecologic Oncology
Ferriss JS, Java JJ, Bookman MA, Fleming GF, Monk BJ, Walker JL, et al. Ascites predicts treatment benefit of bevacizumab in front-line therapy of advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube and peritoneal cancers: an NRG Oncology/GOG study. Gynecol Oncol. 2015;139:17-22.
PMID: 26216729
Konstantinopoulos PA, Ceccaldi R, Shapiro GI, D'Andrea AD. Homologous recombination deficiency: exploiting the fundamental vulnerability of ovarian cancer. Cancer Discov. 2015;5:1137-54.
PMID: 26463832
Beesley VL, Rowlands IJ, Hayes SC, Janda M, O'Rourke P, Marquart L, et al. Incidence, risk factors and estimates of a woman's risk of developing secondary lower limb lymphedema and lymphedema-specific supportive care needs in women treated for endometrial cancer. Australian National Endometrial Cancer Study Group.. Gynecol Oncol. 2015;136:87-93.
PMID: 25448454
Oza AM, Cook AD, Pfisterer J, Embleton A, Ledermann JA, Pujade-Lauraine E, et al. Standard chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab for women with newly diagnosed ovarian cancer (ICON7): overall survival results of a phase 3 randomised trial. ICON7 trial investigators. Lancet Oncol. 2015;16:928-36.
PMID: 26115797
Kehoe S, Hook J, Nankivell M, Jayson GC, Kitchener H, Lopes T, et al. Primary chemotherapy versus primary surgery for newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer (CHORUS): an open-label, randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial. Lancet. 2015;386:249-57.
PMID: 26002111
Metcalfe K, Lynch HT, Foulkes WD, Tung N, Kim-Sing C, Olopade OI, et al. Effect of oophorectomy on survival after breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. JAMA Oncol. 2015;1:306-13.
PMID: 26181175
Demetri GD, von Mehren M, Jones RL, Hensley ML, Schuetze SM, Staddon A, et al. Efficacy and safety of Trabectedin or Dacarbazine for metastatic liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma after failure of conventional chemotherapy: results of a phase III randomized multicenter clinical trial. J Clin Oncol. 2015; DOI: JCO.2015.62.4734 [pii].
PMID: 26371143
Maternal Fetal Medicine
Fung WL, Butcher NJ, Costain G, Andrade DM, Boot E, Chow EW, et al. Practical guidelines for managing adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Genet Med. 2015;17:599-609.
PMID: 25569435
Yaron Y, Jani J, Schmid M, Oepkes D. Current status of testing for microdeletion syndromes and rare autosomal trisomies using cell-free DNA technology. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:1095-9.
PMID: 26444108
Stoll BJ, Hansen NI, Bell EF, Walsh MC, Carlo WA, Shankaran S, et al. Trends in care practices, morbidity, and mortality of extremely preterm neonates, 1993-2012. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network. JAMA. 2015;314:1039-51.
PMID: 26348753
Soll RF. Progress in the care of extremely preterm infants [editorial]. JAMA. 2015;314:1007-8.
PMID: 26348750
van Hagen IM, Roos-Hesselink JW, Ruys TP, Merz WM, Goland S, Gabriel H, et al. Pregnancy in women with a mechanical heart valve: data of the European Society of Cardiology Registry of Pregnancy and Cardiac Disease (ROPAC). ROPAC Investigators and the EURObservational Research Programme (EORP) Team. Circulation. 2015;132:132-42.
PMID: 26100109
Thompson JL, Kuklina EV, Bateman BT, Callaghan WM, James AH, Grotegut CA. Medical and obstetric outcomes among pregnant women with congenital heart disease. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:346-54.
PMID: 26241425
Belfort MA, Saade GR, Thom E, Blackwell SC, Reddy UM, Thorp JM Jr, et al. A randomized trial of intrapartum fetal ECG ST-segment analysis. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. N Engl J Med. 2015;373:632-41.
PMID: 26267623
Maternal Fetal Medicine, Ultrasound
Marshall J, Salemi JL, Tanner JP, Ramakrishnan R, Feldkamp ML, Marengo LK, et al. Prevalence, correlates, and outcomes of omphalocele in the United States, 1995-2005. National Birth Defects Prevention Network. Obstet Gynecol. 2015;126:284-93.
PMID: 26241416
Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
Kim TH, Yoo JY, Wang Z, Lydon JP, Khatri S, Hawkins SM, et al. ARID1A is essential for endometrial function during early pregnancy. PLoS Genet. 2015;11:e1005537.
PMID: 26378916
Traver S, Scalici E, Mullet T, Molinari N, Vincens C, Anahory T, et al.. Cell-free DNA in human follicular microenvironment: new prognostic biomarker to predict in vitro fertilization outcomes. PLoS One. 2015;10:e0136172.
PMID: 26288130
Rombauts L, McMaster R, Motteram C, Fernando S. Risk of ectopic pregnancy is linked to endometrial thickness in a retrospective cohort study of 8120 assisted reproduction technology cycles. Hum Reprod. 2015;30:2846-52.
PMID: 26428211
Abbara A, Jayasena CN, Christopoulos G, Narayanaswamy S, Izzi-Engbeaya C, Nijher GM, et al. Efficacy of Kisspeptin-54 to trigger oocyte maturation in women at high risk of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) during in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapy. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2015;100:3322-31.
PMID: 26192876
Diamond MP, Legro RS, Coutifaris C, Alvero R, Robinson RD, Casson P, et al. Letrozole, Gonadotropin, or Clomiphene for unexplained infertility. NICHD Reproductive Medicine Network. N Engl J Med. 2015;373:1230-40.
PMID: 26398071
Fragouli E, Spath K, Alfarawati S, Kaper F, Craig A, Michel CE, et al. Altered levels of mitochondrial DNA are associated with female age, aneuploidy, and provide an independent measure of embryonic implantation potential. PLoS Genet. 2015;11:e1005241.
PMID: 26039092
Pritts EA, Vanness DJ, Berek JS, Parker W, Feinberg R, Feinberg J, et al. The prevalence of occult leiomyosarcoma at surgery for presumed uterine fibroids: a meta-analysis. Gynecol Surg. 2015;12:165-77.
PMID: 26283890
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