Recently, multiple time scale characteristics of heart dynamics have received much attention for distinguishing healthy and pathologic cardiac systems. Despite structural peculiarities of the fetal cardiovascular system, the fetal heart rate(FHR) displays multiple time scale characteristics similar to the adult heart rate due to the autorhythmicity of its different oscillatory tissues and its i...

the armadillo could be considered as an experimental model for leprosy studies. mycobacterium leprae main host cells are macrophages and schwann cells. however, endocytosis and germicidal activities of armadillo macrophages and monocytes have not yet been evaluated. the aim of this research was to evaluate endocytosis and nbt-reduction activities of monocyte-derived macrophages (mdm) and monocy...

This is a rare case of quintuplet pregnancy two sets Monozygotic Twins (MZT) co-existing with singleton resulting from transfer three cleaved embryos. To ameliorate the adverse implications multiple gestation, fetal reduction to twins by intracardiac puncture and aspiration was carried out at 11 weeks’ gestation. The patient has now delivered healthy babies (a boy girl) 35 weeks 6 days lower se...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of fetal oxygen saturation, as an adjunct to electronic fetal monitoring, may be associated with a significant change in the rate of cesarean deliveries or the infant's condition at birth. METHODS We randomly assigned 5341 nulliparous women who were at term and in early labor to either "open" or "masked" fetal pulse oximetry. In the open group, fetal oxygen saturation val...