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Effects of pregnancy on neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder and predictors of related attacks

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Volume 9, Issue 12, Page 1918-1925, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Objective Our study aimed to investigate the influence of pregnancy on the course of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) and to explore the independent predictors of pregnancy‐related attacks. Methods We performed a retrospective study of patients with NMOSD based on the Wingerchuk 2006 or the revised Wingerchuk 2015 criteria ...
Qin Du, Ziyan Shi, Hongxi Chen, Ying Zhang, Yuhan Qiu, Yanlin Lang, Lingyao Kong, Hongyu Zhou   +7 more
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Infant Botulism

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2022
Emergency medicine and pediatric residents, and pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) fellows.Botulism is a rare but serious cause of infant hypotonia, vomiting, and respiratory failure. The differential diagnosis and management of a hypotonic infant with progressive weakness leading to respiratory failure is a rare presentation with high morbidity and ...
Morris, Victoria, Wians, Robert, Wilson, Jessica, Stevens, Gowri   +3 more
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Health management committee strengthening and community mobilisation through women’s groups to improve trained health worker attendance at birth in rural Nepal: a cluster randomised controlled trial

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background Engaging citizens and communities to make services accountable is vital to achieving health development goals. Community participation in health management committees can increase public accountability of health services.
Joanna Morrison, Kirti Tumbahangphe, Aman Sen, Lu Gram, Bharat Budhathoki, Rishi Neupane, Rita Thapa, Kunta Dahal, Bidur Thapa, Dharma Manandhar, Anthony Costello, David Osrin   +11 more
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Breastfeeding-oriented education for parturients separated from their hospitalized infants: a qualitative study of nurses’ perspectives in Shanghai, China

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background The benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and baby are well recognized. However, the separation of the mother-newborn dyad leads to a lower breastfeeding rate.
Haoxue Feng, Ying Liu, Junying Li, Hui Jiang   +3 more
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Incidence, Clinical Features, and Outcomes of the Confirmed Neonatal COVID-19 Infection in the Southwest Iran

International Journal of Pediatrics, 2023
Background. The impact of COVID-19 on the neonatal population is still mysterious. This study is aimed at reporting the prevalence of COVID-19 and its clinical characteristics and outcomes among neonates in Iran. Methods.
Najmeh Maharlouei, Arash Khojasteh Zonoozi, Zaynab Noeizad, Atila Erami, Hamidreza Parsa, Zahra Eskandari Kootahi, Sara Raji, Kamran B. Lankarani   +7 more
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Policies and actions to reduce maternal mortality in Nepal: perspectives of key informants

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Nepal made impressive progress in reducing maternal mortality until 2015. Since then, progress has stagnated, coinciding with Nepal’s transition to a federation with significant devolution in health management. In this context, we conducted key informant
Rajendra Karkee, Kirti Man Tumbahanghe, Alison Morgan, Nashna Maharjan, Bharat Budhathoki, Dharma S. Manandhar   +5 more
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A randomized controlled study examining a novel binaural beat technique for treatment of preoperative anxiety in a group of women undergoing elective caesarean section

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2021
Importance Attention is being focused on improving mothers’ positive experiences of childbirth while reducing the negative ones. Cesarean section is a known factor able to increase maternal anxiety.
Arianna Parodi, Paola Fodde, Teresa Pellecchia, Matteo Puntoni, Enzo Fracchia, Massimo Mazzella   +5 more
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The Clearance of High-Risk Human Papillomavirus is Sooner After Thin Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (t-LEEP)

Journal of Investigative Surgery, 2019
Purpose/aim of the study: To investigate high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection clearance following thin loop electrosurgical excision procedure (t-LEEP) among patients with cervical benign lesion.
Wenying Zhang, Xiaodi Gong, Qiongwei Wu, Yu Liu, Guoying Lao, Jinyin Xiao, Longtao Yang, Ping Liu, Chengbin Ma   +8 more
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Pareidolia in Infants

PLOS ONE, 2015
Faces convey primal information for our social life. This information is so primal that we sometimes find faces in non-face objects. Such illusory perception is called pareidolia. In this study, using infants' orientation behavior toward a sound source, we demonstrated that infants also perceive pareidolic faces.
Ryoko Mugitani, Masaharu Kato
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Asymptomatic COVID-19 in the elderly: dementia and viral clearance as risk factors for disease progression. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Gates Open Research, 2022
Background: SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals ≥60 years old have the highest hospitalization rates and represent >80% fatalities. Within this population, those in long-term facilities represent >50% of the total COVID-19 related deaths per country.
Diego Wappner, Mauricio T. Caballero, Fernando P. Polack, Romina Libster, Gonzalo Perez Marc, Georgina Bergero, Ignacio Esteban, Micaela Bronstein, Camila Alves, Cristian Wood, Valeria Ziegler   +10 more
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