hypertension edema and proteinuria in pregnancy

A case-study in IVF - paternalism and autonomy in a ‘high-risk’ pregnancy

A case-study in IVF - paternalism and autonomy in a ‘high-risk’ pregnancy

... disease and pregnancy In Advances in Nephrology Year Book, ed J Grunfeld, M Maxwell, J Bach et al., vol 14, pp 103–41 Linn, MO: Mosby, Inc Lindheimer, M.D and Katz, A.I (1992) Pregnancy in the ... right deep vein thrombosis, affecting the femoral and external iliac veins, and anti-coagulation with heparin and warfarin was required Spontaneous rupture of the membranes, leading to premature ... twins were delivered vaginally and in good condition three hours later The twin girls were small for dates (at 1.48 and 1.19 kg) but were otherwise well, requiring only minimal resuscitation and...

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HIV in pregnancy - ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research

HIV in pregnancy - ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research

... zidovudine treatment New England Journal of Medicine 331: 1173–80 Corbitt, G (1999) HIV testing and screening Current practicalities and future possibilities In HIV and AIDS, Testing, Screening and ... depriving an at-risk group of advice which may be of particular value and relevance Voluntary testing can easily HIV in pregnancy slide into mandatory or near-mandatory testing Translating policy into ... understanding and information, and sometimes by coercion The ethics of anonymised unlinked screening for HIV in pregnancy With anonymized testing, there is a tension between the perceived interests...

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Birth by Design PREGNANCY, MATERNITY CARE, AND MIDWIFERY IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE doc

Birth by Design PREGNANCY, MATERNITY CARE, AND MIDWIFERY IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE doc

... training program and offer a range of services, including newborn care, help initiating and sustaining breastfeeding, health advice for mother and child, and help with housework (Van Teijlingen ... Malin & Hemminki 1992) Despite this general similarity, maternal health policy in Britain, Finland, and Canada differs in significant ways In Britain and Finland, for example, strong state intervention ... discipline in medicine where something happens by itself, and, in most cases, with no intervention, everything ends well Thinking about this incident, Kloosterman concluded: “Obstetrics is wider and...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " The inhibition of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 activity by crude and purified human pregnancy plug mucus and mucins in an inhibition assay" ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: " The inhibition of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 activity by crude and purified human pregnancy plug mucus and mucins in an inhibition assay" ppt

... extract and purify the mucins in the pregnancy plug mucus and to determine their antiHIV-1 activity using an HIV inhibition assay We therefore extracted and purified mucins from the pregnancy ... the efforts being made in controlling this epidemic In this study we report the anti-HIV-1 activities of crude and purified human pregnancy plug mucus and mucins in an in vitro inhibition assay ... 4) Bands at the top of the running gel, staining both for protein and carbohydrate confirmed the presence of the mucin and its purity (Fig 2b, lanes and 5) Figure SDS-PAGE analyses of the pregnancy...

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CHRONIC HYPERTENSION IN PREGNANCY ppsx

CHRONIC HYPERTENSION IN PREGNANCY ppsx

... Pregnancy Pregnancy-aggravated hypertension Superimposed preeclampsia Placental abruption Fetal and Neonatal Complications of Hypertension in Pregnancy Prematurity Placental insufficiency Intrauterine ... activity and avoiding aerobic exercise If you smoke or drink alcohol, it's now even more important to stop, since they can both make your hypertension worse Complications of Chronic Hypertension in Pregnancy ... caregiver can review your blood pressure readings over time, as well as the results of lab tests and other evaluations If blood and urine tests relating to your hypertension haven't been done recently,...

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Báo cáo y học: "Chlamydia trachomatis Infection of Human Trophoblast Alters Estrogen and Progesterone Biosynthesis: an insight into role of infection in pregnancy sequelae." doc

Báo cáo y học: "Chlamydia trachomatis Infection of Human Trophoblast Alters Estrogen and Progesterone Biosynthesis: an insight into role of infection in pregnancy sequelae." doc

... determining the capacity of C trachomatis to initiate productive and transferable infection in trophoblast This involved the time course harvesting and purifying of EBs from infected trophoblast and ... sustain the growth of fetus We report a decline in estrogen and progesterone in chlamydial infected trophoblast and an accompanying positive feedback up regulation in the rate limiting enzymes in ... Chlamydial inclusion forming units (IFUs) was enumerated and compared with IFUs obtained from direct HEp-2 cells infection using EBs from our lab stock In all instances infection was established in 25-45%...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 16:23

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Báo cáo y học: "Unusual association of ST-T abnormalities, myocarditis and cardiomyopathy with H1N1 influenza in pregnancy: two case reports and review of the literature" pps

Báo cáo y học: "Unusual association of ST-T abnormalities, myocarditis and cardiomyopathy with H1N1 influenza in pregnancy: two case reports and review of the literature" pps

... added importance in the setting of the H N 2009 swine-origin influenza pandemic [22] Inactivated influenza vaccine can be safely and effectively administered during any trimester of pregnancy No ... knowledge regarding the safety and importance of influenza vaccination during pregnancy Misinformed or inadequately informed health care workers may represent a barrier to influenza vaccine coverage ... disease rates and severity that correspond to both seasonal influenza epidemics and occasional pandemics These findings justify ongoing efforts to optimize influenza vaccination during pregnancy...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:22

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Báo cáo y học: " Acinic cell carcinoma in pregnancy: a case report and review of the literature" docx

Báo cáo y học: " Acinic cell carcinoma in pregnancy: a case report and review of the literature" docx

... supervising surgeon of the case, and he participated in the editing of the article and in reviewing the literature AAO was involved in data collection, literature review, and in editing the article ... neoplasm, which we observed in this case Interestingly, the carcinoma of this patient initially appeared during her first pregnancy, and it recurred during a subsequent pregnancy a few years later ... observational report introduces new information regarding the etiology or pathogenesis or both of acinic cell carcinoma of the salivary glands, which is expected to help in the understanding of this malignant...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

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Báo cáo y học: " Nutrition, mental health and violence: from pregnancy to postpartum Cohort of women attending primary care units in Southern Brazil - ECCAGE study" pdf

Báo cáo y học: " Nutrition, mental health and violence: from pregnancy to postpartum Cohort of women attending primary care units in Southern Brazil - ECCAGE study" pdf

... contributed to an increase in incidence of obesity and other chronic diseases It also showed an increase in consumption of carbohydrate and fat and reduction in consumption of grains and beans which ... on infant’s neuropsychomotor development (sustaining the head, following objects with their eyes, turning in bed without help, listening when called for, playing with their hands, and recognizing ... and laxatives, self-induced vomiting, and episodes of excessive food intake) and eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa) which is more common among women in young age groups and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Herpes simplex virus infection in pregnancy and in neonate: status of art of epidemiology, diagnosis, therapy and preventio" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Herpes simplex virus infection in pregnancy and in neonate: status of art of epidemiology, diagnosis, therapy and preventio" potx

... mainly by maternal firsttime infection in the third trimester of pregnancy, have been published in literature Since the increasing prevalence of genital HSV infection and apparent increase in ... meningitis and by autonomic neuropathy resulting in urinary retention, mainly in women [9,11] Meningitis has been found in 42% of primary HSV-2, 12% of primary HSV-1 infections and 1% of recurrent infections ... engineering, including live and inactivated whole virus vaccines and subunit vaccines consisting of recombinant viral glycoproteins in various adjuvants [72] Although animal studies on vaccination strategies...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Change of Diurnal Heart Rate Patterns During Pregnancy and Lactation in Dogs (Canis familiaris)" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Change of Diurnal Heart Rate Patterns During Pregnancy and Lactation in Dogs (Canis familiaris)" potx

... (Holter) recordings for 24 h at pre-determined intervals during anoestrus, pregnancy and lactation Such recordings would give important information to use in the clinic when evaluating the cardiovascular ... individual, the effect of the period of pregnancy or lactation, sampling time and the interaction term between period of pregnancy and sampling time The difference in heart rate between day and ... hourly values as found during late pregnancy in this study The decreased difference between values obtained during the day and those obtained during the night in late pregnancy could possibly...

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Báo cáo y học: "Mannose-binding lectin does not explain the course and outcome of pregnancy in rheumatoid arthritis" pot

Báo cáo y học: "Mannose-binding lectin does not explain the course and outcome of pregnancy in rheumatoid arthritis" pot

... http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/1/R10 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the promoter region and in exon of the MBL2 gene It has been shown that MBL levels are markedly increased during pregnancy and that this increase ... activity score and immunoglobulin G galactosylation in relation to mannose-binding lectin genotype groups (a) Mean rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity score 28 (DAS28) during pregnancy and postpartum ... genotype groups A, B and C at all time points during pregnancy and postpartum (P = 0.899) (b) Mean Immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) galactosylation (×100%) of patients with RA during pregnancy and postpartum...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "The concentration of oxygen, lactate and glucose in the central veins, right heart, and pulmonary artery: a study in patients with pulmonary hypertension" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "The concentration of oxygen, lactate and glucose in the central veins, right heart, and pulmonary artery: a study in patients with pulmonary hypertension" ppt

... mixing SVC and IVC blood as the mechanism for development of Δ[Lac] The finding of greater SO2 and [Lac] in IVC and SVC than in pulmonary artery indicates that further dilution of oxygen and ... veins and right heart in shock states Lee and coworkers [31] noted that IVC SO2 and SVC SO2 were 49.1% and 65.8%, respectively, in five patients with cardiogenic shock (cardiac index 1.7 l/min ... et al Monitoring ΔSO2 and Δ[Lac] may be of little clinical interest if these gradients are produced exclusively by mixing of SVC and IVC blood streams On the other hand, if ΔSO2 and Δ[Lac] result...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

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Báo cáo y học: "Intratracheal dopamine attenuates pulmonary edema and improves survival after ventilator-induced lung injury in rats" potx

Báo cáo y học: "Intratracheal dopamine attenuates pulmonary edema and improves survival after ventilator-induced lung injury in rats" potx

... oedema in the groups receiving saline solution alone However, in the groups receiving intratracheal dopamine there were minimal differences between observations at 30 and 60 minutes This may indicate ... 36), MV was maintained for 60 minutes at HVT (25 ml/kg) and RR of 40 breaths/minute At 10 minutes after starting MV, ml/kg body weight of saline solution was intratracheally instilled into air spaces ... for 30 minutes In the group undergoing MV with HTV for 30 minutes (HVT30; n = 10), MV was maintained for 30 minutes with HVT (25 ml/kg) and RR of 40 breaths/minute At 10 minutes after starting MV,...

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Báo cáo y học: "Effects of positive end-expiratory pressure on respiratory function and hemodynamics in patients with acute respiratory failure with and without intra-abdominal hypertension: a pilot study" docx

Báo cáo y học: "Effects of positive end-expiratory pressure on respiratory function and hemodynamics in patients with acute respiratory failure with and without intra-abdominal hypertension: a pilot study" docx

... small PEEP-induced increase in IAP is in keeping with previous findings by de Keulenaer and colleagues [37] Gattinoni and colleagues [7] reported a reduction in the Estat, RS, Estat, L and Estat, ... water index in patientscardiac indexnormal intra-abdominalpressure (MAP), (c) intrathoracic blood volume index (ITBI), and (d) extravascular lung water index in patients with normal normal intra-abdominal ... explained by the low EVLWI as indicated above, suggesting minor alveolar edema and atelectasis Our data are also in line with those reported by Thille and colleagues [38] showing no differences in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

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Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Post-extubation laryngeal edema and extubation failure in critically ill adult patients" pps

Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: Post-extubation laryngeal edema and extubation failure in critically ill adult patients" pps

... requiring medical intervention Miller and Cole [27] 1996 100 6 High-pitched inspiratory wheeze requiring medical intervention Kriner and colleagues [8] 2005 462 20 4.3 Inspiratory grunting, whistling ... vasoconstriction and decreased blood flow, which diminishes edema formation Randomized controlled trials that prove efficacy of epinephrine in post-extubation laryngeal edema in adults are again lacking Likewise, ... laryngeal edema, PES and reintubation rates [4,7,41] In contrast, a single dose of 40 mg methylprednisolone 24 hours before extubation was effective in lowering the incidence of PES and the reintubation...

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Questions to .NET and Programming in C#

Questions to .NET and Programming in C#

... c) Pointers and values a) Value types and reference types in simple terms is nothing but conversion of a value type into a reference type a) Casting c) Unboxing d) Overriding b) Boxing ... for statement’s syntax is incorrect using System; class Test { static void Main() { int @Main; int[] Static= new int[3]; @Main =100*Static[1]; Console.WriteLine(@Main); } } What will be the output ... A.F Init B B.F b) Init A Init B A.F B.F c) d) A.F Init B Init A A.F A.F B.F Init B Init A 89 //.Inconsistent accessibility: base class 'Test' is less //accessible than class 'Q3' lỗi dòng using...

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Questions to .NET and Programming in C#

Questions to .NET and Programming in C#

... of the following is the correct syntax for declaring an indexer a) protected int this[int var1] c) public int this(int var1) b) public int classname[int index] d public int this[int ) var1] A ... Main() { IndexerTest IndexMe = new IndexerTest(); IndexMe[1] = 100; IndexMe[2] = 1000; System.Console.WriteLine(IndexMe[1]); System.Console.WriteLine(IndexMe[2]); System.Console.WriteLine(IndexMe[3]); ... public string this[int pos] { get { return myData[pos]; } set { myData[pos] = value; } } static void Main(string[] args) { IntIndexer myInd = new IntIndexer(5); myInd[1] = "Some Value"; myInd[4]...

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The Duality of Memory and Communication in the Implementation of a Multiprocessor Operating System

The Duality of Memory and Communication in the Implementation of a Multiprocessor Operating System

... workstations and mainframes within the Department of Computer Science, and supports projects in distributed computing and parallel processing such as the Camelot distributed transaction processing system ... be described in more detail in a later section When shadowing, the data is instead copied from the original 9 char *file_data; int i, file_size; extern float rand(); /* random in [0,1) */ /* ... a memory object and offset within that memory object Additional information stored for each range includes protection and inheritance information To account for sharing through inheritance, Mach...

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Virtual Memory, Processes, and Sharing in MULTICS

Virtual Memory, Processes, and Sharing in MULTICS

... procedure's linkage section is made as a segment within that process In certain cases the linkage sections of several procedures are combined into a single linkage segment private to the process Linking ... the link pointer and have the form shown in Figure 12 The displacement k is determined by the coding of P and is invariant with respect to the process using P Procedure Call and Return The coding ... entry point in the called procedure segment Thus in establishing the link for an external procedure call, the generalized indirect address placed in the calling procedure's link data points to...

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