Search results for "obstetric"

Post-cesarean section morbidity in HIV-positive women

1999

Background The present work is an audit of post-cesarean section morbidity in HIV-positive women in the tertiary teaching hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain. Study design. Retrospective case-control study. Subjects. Forty-five HIV-positive pregnant women and 90 appropriately matched controls, delivered by cesarean section in the same hospital and managed using a uniform protocol. Main outcome measures. The duration of stay in hospital after cesarean section, the need for postoperative antibiotics and the incidence of major and minor puerperal complications. Baseline characteristics of HIV-positive women were also analyzed in relation to the morbidity after surgery. Statistical analysis. Chi-sq…

Enzyme replacement therapy with agalsidase alfa in pregnant women with Fabry disease

2009

COVID-19 Disease During Pregnancy - Presentation of Two Cases and Literature Review

2021

COVID-19 disease is currently an extremely difficult problem for healthcare systems in Poland and in the world. The growing number of infections makes one suspect that the incidence of COVID-19 cases will also increase in the population of pregnant women. The article presents case reports of two patients with positive results of the SARS-CoV-2 test and a literature review on COVID-19 during pregnancy.

CANDIDA SEPTIC THROMBOSIS OF THE LEFT ATRIUM IN TWINS: REPORT OF TWO CASES

2009

Background: Preterms are often exposed to nosocomial infections in NICU. Candida infections are particularly common and can result in progressive organization of intracardiac thrombosis, usually in the right atrium. Design and population: GB (24.4 wg, 460 g, bigeminal pregnancy): he was affected by RDS, PDA, jaundice, anaemia and had been submitted to TPN with CVC, also because of anus imperforate. On the 50th day, haemoculture resulted positive for Candida parapsilosis and, by echocardiography, hyperecogen peduncolate formation in the appendix of left auricola. Despite antifungal therapy, exitus occurred. CM (32.4 wg, 1390 g, bigeminal pregnancy): on 2nd day, she was operated for “apple-pe…

Clinical cardiac assessment in newborns with prenatally diagnosed intrathoracic masses

2018

Abstract Background Congenital space-occupying thoracic malformations and diaphragmatic hernia have in common pulmonary hypoplasia. Our study aims to assess cardiac involvement during post-natal adaptation. Methods A retrospective study was carried out on newborns with prenatally diagnosed intrathoracic mass. Gathering for respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), 35 neonates were compared for clinical course, cardiovascular enzymes, ECG, and ultrasound. Results The analysis revealed a high left heart defect rate in patients with severe RDS, without being influenced by the laterality. Ultrasound or laboratory assessment did not detect altered cardiac dimension or cardiomyopathy. Solely ECG signs…

Malformations in newborn: results based on 30,940 infants and fetuses from the Mainz congenital birth defect monitoring system (1990-1998).

2002

Prevalence rates of birth defects in the Federal Republic of Germany are informative to assess the general background risk of having a child with a birth defect. They provide basic figures to determine temporal and regional prevalence trends, to evaluate and initiate preventive measures and to initiate research projects. To avoid observer, definition and collection bias, active monitoring systems are required. Data collected in the active monitoring system of the Mainz Birth Defects Registry are presented. From 1990-1998, 30,940 live-births, stillbirths and abortions underwent standardized physical and sonographic examinations. Anamnestic data were collected from prenatal care records, mate…

PRENATAL IDENTIFICATION OF A HETEROZYGOUS STATUS IN TWO FETUSES AT RISK FOR GLUCOSE–GALACTOSE MALABSORPTION

1996

Glucose-galactose malabsorption (GGM) is an autosomal recessive disorder which presents with severe osmotic diarrhoea shortly after birth. Two proband siblings with GGM were previously demonstrated to contain a missense mutation (D28N) in the Na + -dependent glucose/galactose cotransporter (SGLTI) that accounts for the defect in sugar absorption. Prenatal screening for GGM was performed in two subsequent pregnancies in this large consanguineous family. The first exon of the SGLTI gene was PCR-amplified from genomic DNA and screened for the presence of the D28N mutation by EcoRV restriction digestion. The proband's sibling was heterozygous and a cousin was not a carrier of the D28N mutation.…

The human first cell cycle: impact on implantation.

2013

The morphology of fertilization events has been related to successful implantation by subjective criteria (pronuclei score, pronuclei symmetry and position). This work first described these events by time-lapse technology and then compared the timings of fertilization events (second polar body extrusion, first and second pronuclei appearance, abuttal and fading) in implanted versus nonimplanted embryos in a 2-year cohort retrospective study. A total of 1448 transferred embryos from 842 patients undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection with oocyte donation were monitored, 212 embryos from treatments where the number of gestational sacs matched the number of transferred embryos and 687 emb…

Shear bond strength of ceramic fused to CAD-CAM milled alloys

2018

Background This study evaluated the metal ceramic bond strength of cast Ni-Cr, cast Co-Cr, sintered Co-Cr and milled Co-Cr alloys to ceramic through two application procedures including the ceramic layering technique and ceramic pressed-on technique. Material and Methods Ceramic materials (Ø 8 mm, 1.5 mm thickness) were veneered by either the layering or pressed-on technique to cast Ni-Cr, cast Co-Cr, sintered Co-Cr and hard milled Co-Cr alloy disc (12 × 12 × 0.5 mm) (n=15). All specimens were treated with a thermal cycle process for 500 cycles at the temperature between 5 °C and 55 °C with immerse time of 30 seconds and 5 seconds for specimen transfer. The shear bond strength was determine…

Proteomic analysis of extracellular vesicles secreted by primary human epithelial endometrial cells reveals key proteins related to embryo implantati…

2022

Abstract Background Successful implantation is dependent on coordination between maternal endometrium and embryo, and the role of EVs in the required cross-talk cell-to-cell has been recently established. In this regard, it has been reported that EVs secreted by the maternal endometrium can be internalized by human trophoblastic cells transferring their contents and enhancing their adhesive and invasive capacity. This is the first study to comprehensively evaluate three EV isolation methods on human endometrial epithelial cells in culture and to describe the proteomic content of EVs secreted by pHEECs from fertile women. Methods Ishikawa cells and pHEECs were in vitro cultured and hormonall…