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Overview of Obstetric Fistula: From a Developing Country’s Perspective
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2020 Obstetric fistula is a hidden tragedy in the developing world, prevention is important and treatment is by surgical repair. However, failure, broken fistula, stress incontinence often demoralizes surgeons and patients.
Ganesh Dangal +5 more
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Women's Health, 2023 Background: Surgical repair is one of the management strategies for obstetric fistulae, which are associated with tragic obstetric morbidities. Objective: This study assessed the proportion of repair failures and associated factors among women who ...
Wubishet Gezimu +3 more
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International Journal of Women's Health, 2021 Getnet Gedefaw,1 Adam Wondmieneh,2 Addisu Getie,2 Melaku Bimerew,2 Asmamaw Demis2 1School of Midwifery, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Ethiopia; 2School of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia ...
Gedefaw G +4 more
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Urogynaecologia International Journal, 2011 Background. Obstetric fistula results in a continuous leakage of urine or feces through the vagina. The social consequences of obstetric fistula are severe, with affected women often ostracized from the community, divorced, abandoned and remaining ...
Pierre Marie Tebeu +3 more
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BMC Women's Health, 2019 Background Obstetric fistula is among the serious and distressing maternal morbidities in Tanzania. Obstetric fistula is a childbirth-related injury caused by prolonged and obstructed labor which has a devastating impact on affected women and their ...
Mary A. Lyimo, Idda H. Mosha
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.IL‐15‐engineered stem cell–NK cell complexes, assembled via bioorthogonal chemistry, enable effective lung cancer immunotherapy. Abstract Natural killer (NK) cells represent a powerful immunotherapeutic strategy due to their intrinsic cytotoxicity and ability to target tumor cells independently of antigen presentation.
Qian Zhang +15 more
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Connexin43 Deficiency Leads to Ventricular Arrhythmias by Reprogramming Proline Metabolism
Advanced Science, EarlyView.The study demonstrated that connexin43 (Cx43) knockout caused arrhythmic phenotype and decreased proline content in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistically, Cx43 interacts with the amino acid transporter SNAT2 (sodium‐dependent neutral amino acid transporter), and its deficiency disrupts proline transport and metabolism.
Hangying Ying +8 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.The glycosyltransferase GALNT10 facilitates ovarian cancer metastasis through the induction of tumor cell EMT and tumor vascular dysfunction. GALNT10 enhanced the extracellular secretion of IGFBP7 through O‐GalNAc glycosylation modification at the T188 site, which subsequently interacts with CD93 on endothelial cells, leading to vascular remodeling ...
Yanan Zhang +9 more
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A Population‐Based Assessment of Cancer Risk in Children With VACTERL
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cancer risk in children with VACTERL, a nonrandom co‐occurrence of ≥ 3 defects (vertebral, anal, cardiac, tracheoesophogeal fistula, renal, and limb), remains unclear. We evaluated this association in a population‐based study. We analyzed data from the Genetic Overlap Between Anomalies and Cancer in Kids (GOBACK) Study, a US registry linkage ...
Ji Yun Tark +15 more
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Clinical Profile of Urogenital Fistula in Kathmandu Model Hospital
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2020 Background: To determine the causes of fistula and to share our experience in treating urogenital fistula and its surgical outcome. Methods: This was a retrospective study done at Kathmandu Model Hospital from January 2014 to June 2019 including 261 ...
Hema Kumari Pradhan +9 more
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