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Pregnancy with Concomitant Chorioangioma and Placental Mesenchymal Dysplasia: A Rare Placental Abnormality

Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2013
Background. Pregnancy with concomitant chorioangioma and placental mesenchymal dysplasia (PMD) coexisting with a normal viable fetus is very rare. The literature was reviewed to explore the incidence and genetic origin of this condition. Case.
Wu Qichang, Wang Wenbo, Zheng Liangkai, Kong Hui, He Xiaoqin, Sun Li, Xu Yasong   +6 more
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Systematic analysis of copy number variants of uncertain significance partially overlapping with the haploinsufficient or triplosensitive genes in clinical testing

Annals of Medicine, 2023
Background: Copy number variants of uncertain significance (VUS) has brought much distress for patients and great counselling challenges for clinicians.
Ran Zhou, Jiao Jiao, Yan Wang, Lulu Meng, Yiming Li, Yiyun Xu, Ping Hu, Zhengfeng Xu   +7 more
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Exploring the focus of prenatal information offered to pregnant mothers regarding newborn care in rural Uganda [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Neonatal death accounts for one fifth of all under-five mortality in Uganda. Suboptimal newborn care practices resulting from hypothermia, poor hygiene and delayed initiation of breastfeeding are leading predisposing factors.
Atuyambe, Lynn, Ayiasi, Mangwi Richard, Criel, Bart, Garimoi, Christopher, Kolsteren, Patrick, Van Royen, Kathleen, Verstraeten, Roosmarijn   +6 more
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Detection rates of abnormalities in over 10,000 amniotic fluid samples at a single laboratory

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Background A growing number of cytogenetic techniques have been used for prenatal diagnosis. This study aimed to demonstrate the usefulness of karyotyping, BACs-on-Beads (BoBs) assay and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array in prenatal diagnosis ...
Sha Lu, Nisile Kakongoma, Wen-sheng Hu, Yan-zhen Zhang, Nan-nan Yang, Wen Zhang, Ai-fen Mao, Yi Liang, Zhi-fen Zhang   +8 more
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Prenatal care coverage and correlates of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: Insight from demographic and health surveys of 16 countries

PLoS ONE, 2020
Background Prenatal screening of pregnant women for HIV is central to eliminating mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT) of HIV. While some countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have scaled up their prevention of MTCT programmes, ensuring a near-universal ...
O. Awopegba, A. Kalu, B. O. Ahinkorah, A. Seidu, A. Ajayi   +4 more
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Early life factors and risk of childhood rhabdomyosarcoma. [PDF]

, 2013
Although little is known about etiology of childhood rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), early life factors are suspected in the etiology. We explored this hypothesis using linked data from the California Cancer Registry and the California birth rolls.
Anshu eShrestha, Anshu eShrestha, Beate eRitz, Christina A Lombardi, Julia eHeck, Michelle eWilhelm, Simona eOgnjanovic   +6 more
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Explaining the experience of prenatal care and investigating the association between psychological factors with self-care in pregnant women during COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed method study protocol

Reproductive Health, 2020
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel global public health emergency. Prenatal care (PNC) providing institutes should identify the needs and demands of pregnant women by optimizing the means of PNC services during the COVID-19 ...
Marzieh Masjoudi, Armin Aslani, Somayyeh Khazaeian, Azita Fathnezhad-kazemi   +3 more
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Case Report: The third-generation sequencing confirmed a novel 7.2 Kb deletion at β-globin gene in a patient with rare β-thalassemia

Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
Background: Thalassemia was the most common monogenic diseases worldwide, which was caused by mutations, deletions or duplications in human globin genes which disturbed the synthesis balance between α- and β-globin chains of hemoglobin.
Guoxing Zhong, Zeyan Zhong, Zhiyang Guan, Dina Chen, Zhiyong Wu, Kunxiang Yang, Dan Chen, Yinyin Liu, Ruofan Xu, Jianhong Chen   +9 more
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11q13.3q13.4 deletion plus 9q21.13q21.33 duplication in an affected girl arising from a familial four‐way balanced chromosomal translocation

Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2023
Background We describe a 13‐year‐old girl with a 11q13.3q13.4 deletion encompassing the SHANK2 gene and a 9q21.13q21.33 duplication. She presented with pre‐ and postnatal growth retardation, global developmental delay, severe language delay, cardiac ...
Qinxin Zhang, Yan Wang, Jing Zhou, Ran Zhou, An Liu, Lulu Meng, Xiuqing Ji, Ping Hu, Zhengfeng Xu   +8 more
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Skin Tone Matters: Racial Microaggressions and Delayed Prenatal Care.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2019
INTRODUCTION Literature posits that discrimination can be a barrier to racial and ethnic minorities' healthcare use. This study examines the relationship between perceived discrimination in the form of racial microaggressions and delayed prenatal care in
Jaime C. Slaughter-Acey, Devon Sneed, L. Parker, V. Keith, N. L. Lee, D. Misra   +5 more
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