sexuality in pregnancy and the postpartum period

... by the ultrasonographic findings in four of them, all belonging to the latest chronological period of our series As the name suggests, the condition is invariably lethal in the perinatal period ... higher in twins undergoing amniocentesis than in untested twins or tested singletons These data can be of value in counseling parents of twins because of the increased number of gestations resulting ... will demand further regionalization of care in order for some persons to maintain the skill and further the knowledge base of normal fetal physiology and fetal disease On the other hand amniocentesis...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 20:20

... by the ultrasonographic findings in four of them, all belonging to the latest chronological period of our series As the name suggests, the condition is invariably lethal in the perinatal period ... higher in twins undergoing amniocentesis than in untested twins or tested singletons These data can be of value in counseling parents of twins because of the increased number of gestations resulting ... will demand further regionalization of care in order for some persons to maintain the skill and further the knowledge base of normal fetal physiology and fetal disease On the other hand amniocentesis...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 09:20

... differences in these behaviors and to analyze the relationship between the severity of these deficits and adaptive behavior and IQ The findings have the potential of being both clinically significant ... to understand, make references and consider their own and the others’ state of mind and compare them, participating socially based on that comprehension is known as the theory of mind (Alves ... 2007) The theory of mind is an area that investigates pre-school children’s ability to understand their own and the others’ state of mind and, thus, predicts their actions or behavior (Astington...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 05:20

... trimester tests and holds the information, finally providing the patient with a single screening risk estimate result The integrated test involves first-trimester PAPP-A and NT and second-trimester ... than in the cellular fraction (Lo et al., 1998b) Together, these findings suggest that the source of the fetal DNA in maternal blood is more likely to be the continous cellular remodelling at the ... detection rate, the falsepositive rate for the integrated test (NT and PAPP-A) at 11 completed weeks of pregnancy, and uE3, AFP, free β-hCG and inhibin-A in the early second trimester, serum integrated...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:03

... protein, which contains at least two actin-binding sites, one in the headpiece domain, and another in the amino-terminal portion (Rana et al., 1993; Azim et al., 1995) Actin (band 5) oligomers of ... applies the same energy to all of the proteins in the sample, thus resulting in flight times that depend upon the mass of the proteins The ProteinChip reader records the time-of-flight of the proteins, ... penetrate the sinusoidal wall and enter the circulation (Goldwasser, 1975) During the process of enucleation and maturation of erythrocytes, proteins such as spectrin and glycophorin stay behind in the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:06

... a sharp frost and then the spring came; the sun shone, the green leaves appeared, the swallows built their nests, the windows were opened, and the little children again sat in their pretty garden, ... if they were Their parents lived exactly opposite They inhabited two garrets; and where the roof of the one house joined that of the other, and the gutter ran along the extreme end of it, there ... through the streets of the town, and peeps in at the windows; and they then freeze in so wondrous a manner that they look like flowers.’ ‘Yes, I have seen it,’ said both the children; and so they...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 09:15

... guidelines, and were most commonly combinations of stavudine or zidovudine with lamivudine and nevirapine or efavirenz The four Malaysian hospitals allowed for the use of didanosine in the first-line ... abacavir and didanosine to substituting with another thymidine analogue (i.e., zidovudine for stavudine) A third of the sites continued lamivudine in second-line regimens Malaysian and South ... children in the TREAT Asia and 4561 children in the IeDEA Southern African cohorts met inclusion criteria for the cross-sectional analysis (Tables and 4) Although stavudine was infrequently used in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... and Journal of the International AIDS Society 2011, 14:17 http://www.jiasociety.org/content/14/1/17 Page of Table First- and second-line antiretroviral therapy regimens in use in TREAT Asia and ... access and use in Asia and southern Africa J Int AIDS Soc 2011, 14(1):7 doi:10.1186/1758-2652-14-17 Cite this article as: and : A biregional survey and review of first-line treatment failure and ... (TApHOD), and The International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Southern Africa Paediatric Group: A biregional survey and review of first-line treatment failure and second-line paediatric...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... levels The presented results provide an insight into the in uence of the number of hops and the severity of fading on the instantaneous channel capacity, and hence they are very useful for the design ... and blind relays with fixed relay gains [13] In order to characterize the fading in the end-to-end link between the SMS and the DMS in a multihop communication system with N hops, the authors in ... associated with the nth link of the multihop communication system Increasing the value of mn decreases the severity of fading and vice versa The overall fading channel describing the SMS–DMS link can...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... both types introduce discontinuities in the solution As mentioned in [17] and other works in the reference list, applications involving impulse effects can be found in biology, medicine, physics, ... × R → R is continuous (L) L1 ∈ C(R4 , R) is nondecreasing in the second variable, nonincreasing in the fourth Moreover, L2 : R2 → R is a continuous function and it is nonincreasing with respect ... its first variable (I) I is continuous and strictly increasing with respect to the first variable and nonincreasing in the second variable We consider the following modified truncated problem: y...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... and limited by variations in the stage of infection In the attempt to increase sensitivity, several modifications have been tried including using a combination of antigens or a single recombinant ... determination of protein concentration Refolding of proteins was performed using a Refolding kit (Novagen) following the manufacturers instructions The concentration of purified recombinant protein ... following the manufacturer’s instructions [9] Purified proteins were subjected to N-terminal amino acid sequence to prove that these proteins were the desired gene products Refolding of proteins and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... designed according to accepted anatomic landmarks [20], extending from the mastoid process superiorly to the diaphragmatic insertion inferiorly, encompassing the bilateral axillae and extending laterally ... calculated using the Pinnacle treatment planning system Integral organ doses were calculated by summing the DVH distributions, and mean doses as the ratio of integral dose to organ volume The percentage ... in mean dose to the proximal coronary arteries was largely attributable to cases in which the CTV was located in the superior mediastinum, allowing the IFRT plans to reduce the mean dose to the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... current problems hindering the immediate translation Page of of this approach into the clinic are the cost of the instruments, the reagents and the experimental analysis, and the length of time ... of the incredible complexity of the plasma proteome, which contains peptides derived from every tissue of the body Furthermore, the presence of very abundant proteins, such as serum albumin and ... the base of the neck, which is increased in cases of Down syndrome) in combination with serum protein markers such as free β-hCG and pregnancy- associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) In centers with...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... to stain western blots containing different citrullinated proteins, such as fibrinogen, histones or vimentin The eluted antibodies react with all of these citrullinated proteins, indicating broad ... of the Committee for the Standardization of Autoantibodies in Rheumatic and Related Diseases, using the same substrate and using kits commercially available in Europe, and is now available at the ... directed to the vimentin protein or to the citrulline moiety of mutated vimentin [9,35] Only the CCP3 test appears in some studies to be comparable with the CCP2 test [36-38], although in the majority...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... GN and SM have been involved in drafting of this manuscript and WJ has revised and corrected the manuscript and given final approval for the publication All authors read and approved the final ... thoroughly and packed with betadine soaked swabs The case was discussed with microbiologist and intravenous (IV) clindamycin and ciprofloxacin was added along with flucloxacillin and benzyl penicillin ... attenuation thigh, showing (arrow) CT scan1 right in vastus latralisinflammatory stranding and Figure of CT scan of right thigh, showing inflammatory stranding and low attenuation in vastus latralis...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... and was involved in drafting the manuscript and in the design of the study BP, HB, and SCB revised critically the manuscript and data All authors reviewed the manuscript and accepted the final version ... of the infection status, estimated by considering the infection status both as a binary and continuous trait on the underlying scale, i.e liability to infection, and the expected value on the ... available, indicating whether an animal was infected at the time of sampling Therefore, instead of using mixture models to determine the infection status [1,11], we were able to analyze SCC, and therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... help to incorporate these guidelines into routine practice Attention is drawn to areas of clinical uncertainty where further research may be indicated The evidence used in this guideline was ... previous imaging results 3a Ultrasound imaging in screening for low-lying placenta and diagnosing placenta praevia Transvaginal ultrasound is safe in the presence of placenta praevia and is more ... where the fetal head is relative to the leading edge of the placenta .The thickness of the encroaching tongue of placenta has been shown to influence outcome: the thicker the placenta (over cm), the...

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