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Background: Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) in pregnancy is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition. Management of severe, refractory TTP during pregnancy is challenging and includes multidisciplinary approach. The prognosis of cases with a variety of hematological and autoimmune diseases, including TTP has changed profoundly after ...
Dani Zoorob+3 more
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Objective: Evaluate the efficacy of combination therapy for the prevention of obstetric and perinatal complications in women with amniotic fluid (AF) ‘sludge’.
O. A. Pustotina
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Macrophage Plasticity in Reproduction and Environmental Influences on Their Function
Macrophages are key components of the innate immune system and exhibit extensive plasticity and heterogeneity. They play a significant role in the non-pregnant cycling uterus and throughout gestation they contribute to various processes underpinning ...
Megan Chambers+5 more
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Determinants of neonatal mortality in rural India, 2007-2008. [PDF]
Background. Despite the growing share of neonatal mortality in under-5 mortality in the recent decades in India, most studies have focused on infant and child mortality putting neonatal mortality on the back seat.
Kumar, A., Kumar, A., Singh, Aditya
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Image Segmentation of Zona-Ablated Human Blastocysts [PDF]
Automating human preimplantation embryo grading offers the potential for higher success rates with in vitro fertilization (IVF) by providing new quantitative and objective measures of embryo quality. Current IVF procedures typically use only qualitative manual grading, which is limited in the identification of genetically abnormal embryos.
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Atazanavir and lopinavir profile in pregnant women with HIV: tolerability, activity and pregnancy outcomes in an observational national study [PDF]
Background: Atazanavir and lopinavir represent the main HIV protease inhibitors recommended in pregnancy, but comparative data in pregnant women are limited. Methods: Women from a national observational study, exposed in pregnancy to either atazanavir or
Degli Antoni A+15 more
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Combined Diffusion-Relaxometry MRI to Identify Dysfunction in the Human Placenta [PDF]
Purpose: A combined diffusion-relaxometry MR acquisition and analysis pipeline for in-vivo human placenta, which allows for exploration of coupling between T2* and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements in a sub 10 minute scan time. Methods: We present a novel acquisition combining a diffusion prepared spin-echo with subsequent gradient ...
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Prevalence of syphilis and associated factors among pregnant women in Brazil: systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Objective: This systematic review accompanied by a meta-analysis aimed to estimate the prevalence of syphilis in pregnant women in Brazil and describe its associated factors.
Iana Mundim de Oliveira+5 more
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Risk of Zika virus-associated birth defects in congenital confirmed cases in the Brazilian Amazon
Objective. To establish the risk of microcephaly in neonates born to women infected with ZIKV during pregnancy. Methods. A cohort of laboratory-confirmed ZIKV cases of congenital infections (109 mothers infected during pregnancy and 101 newborns) among ...
Consuelo S de Oliveira+15 more
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Features of the course of COVID-19 in pregnant women
Aim. To study the features of the course of COVID-19 in pregnant women, the outcomes of a new coronavirus infection and pregnancy, the effect of concomitant pathology on the severity of the course and the frequency of complications of COVID-19.Materials ...
E. V. Grigoryeva+6 more
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