The article presents a case of 30-year-old patient at her 30th week of pregnancy who was admitted to our clinic with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction resulting from coronary artery embolism. A successful recanalisation of the occluded artery by balloon angioplasty was performed.

A commercial medium often assumed to exist solely for a juvenile and "lowbrow" audience, comic books have been largely ignored by academic scholarship. There are some exceptions within the fields of American studies-for instance, the work of Thomas Inge-popular culture studies, where writers gather in a Comic Arts subdivision of the Popular Culture Association, and cultural studies, with work b...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a simplified management of diabetic pregnant women. METHODS A prospective study of the management of all diabetic pregnant women (74) during 2 years from March 1995-March 1997 was carried out in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Wad Medani Teaching Hospital, Sudan. Diabetes was diagnosed by an oral glucose tolerance test according to the World Health Organizatio...

of a new recombinant hirudin. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2000;42: 612-9. 8. Palacios Colom L, Alcántara Villar M, Anguita Carazo JL, Ruiz Villaverde R, Quiralte Enríquez J. Delayed-type hypersensitivity to heparins: different patterns of cross-reactivity. Contact Dermatitis. 2008;59:375-7. 9. Nino M, Patruno C, Zagaria O, Balato N. Allergic contact dermatitis from heparin-containing gel: use of scratc...

Pneumopericardium is defined as the accumulation of air in the pericardial cavity (1). Many cases have since been reported, mostly due to blunt or penetrating chest injuries in adults. Spontaneous pneumopericardium is seen very rarely (2). The mortality rate for patients with pneumopericardium who present with symptoms of tamponade is 50% (3). We present the case of a 27-year-old 32-week-pregna...

infected with non-GII.4 norovirus genotypes. However, AGE among unvaccinated rotavirus case-patients was more severe than among norovirus case-patients, and was characterized by higher fever and more frequent and severe diarrhea. This finding confirms findings in a study of children in Finland (7), although our study found no difference in frequency or severity of vomiting between patients with...

Ayurveda considers food to be the best source of nourishment as well as medication for the pregnant woman. The nine monthly diet is singularly unique to Ayurveda. It changes in accordance with the growth of the fetus in the womb and at the same time ensures health of the mother. One can find remnants of this dietics with midwives and older women, but a detailed and comprehensive diet plan is be...

BACKGROUND Nausea and vomiting are common during the first half of pregnancy and usually require only supportive measures. When symptoms are progressive and weight loss occurs, treatable causes should be sought by means of upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. We report a case of an immunocompetent gravida with invasive Candida albicans esophagitis. CASE The immunocompetent primigravida developed...