OBJECTIVES To determine potential partners for pregnant women in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and to determine pregnant women's perceptions towards selected potential HIV prevention efforts. DESIGN Cross sectional, questionnaire-administered study. SETTING Ante-natal clinics of eleven public health centers and the major referral and university teaching hospital of Q...

Anemia in pregnancy is a condition where the hemoglobin level less than 11.0 g/dl. pregnant women can harm mother and fetus during pregnancy. Mothers with anemic pregnancies need good knowledge to meet nutritional needs Pregnant about nutrition as an effort prevent complications from anemia The purpose of this study was describe effectiveness providing health education using booklet on pregnanc...

Laparoscopic surgery in pregnant patients have been reported in the literature, laparoscopic cholecystectomy being the most common. A pregnant patient in her second trimester of pregnancy underwent emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy for empyema of gallbladder. The distended gallbladder was decompressed before dissection was commenced. There was no morbidity conversion, or complications for ...

The occurrence of coexisting cancer in pregnant women is not a common phenomenon. It complicates approximately 1 in 1000 to 1500 pregnancies. We present a multiparous woman aged 27 years in her 28th week of pregnancy who was admitted to our clinic with right upper quadrant pain and was finally revealed to have multiple metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. To the best of our knowledge, this is ...

BACKGROUND Beef cows herd accounts for 70% of the total energy used in the beef production system. However, there are still limited studies regarding improvement of production efficiency in this category, mainly in developing countries and in tropical areas. One of the limiting factors is the difficulty to obtain reliable estimates of weight variation in mature cows. This occurs due to the inte...

BACKGROUND In Ethiopia, Progress in Reducing Mother-to-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is being curtailed by behavioral and cultural factors that continue to put unborn children at risk, and mother-to-child transmission is responsible for more than 90% of HIV infection in children. The objective of this study was to assess PMTCT services by examining knowledge a...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare the role of the pelvic floor muscles between nulliparous and multiparous women in the third trimester of pregnancy, by analyzing the relationship between electrical activity (surface electromyography-EMG), vaginal palpation (modified Oxford scale), and perineal distensibility (Epi-no). METHODS This was an observational cross-sectional study...

In multiparous mammals there is a definite relation between the litter size N and the total weight of the litter W. Reasons are given showing that this relationship is independent of the mechanism of parturition. For various forms W = N(K) + const. Hence the average increment of W due to unit increase of N is directly proportional to W, inversely to N. This signifies proportionality between N a...

The aim of this trial study was to assess the preventive efficacy of immunoglobulin with a high titer of anti-CMV antibody for mother-to-fetus cytomegalovirus (CMV) transmission among pregnant women with primary/acute CMV infection. The primary CMV infection in mothers was diagnosed by a positive test for CMV IgM and/or low IgG avidity. Intact type immunoglobulin with a high titer of anti-CMV a...

UNLABELLED The management of cardiac arrest in pregnancy is an important task for the emergency physicians. The clinical outcome of mother or fetus will often depend on the successful resuscitation of the first few minutes. Furthermore, the resuscitation team leader should consider the necessity of emergency hysterotomy (cesarean delivery) as soon as a pregnant woman develops cardiac arrest. We...