Candida is the most common human fungal pathogen and the cause of invasive candidiasis, the fourth leading cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection in the United States with an estimated annual cost of ,US$2 billion and mortality that exceeds 40% despite administration of antifungal therapy in modern intensive care unit facilities [1]. Hence, invasive candidiasis is an unmet medical condition ...

BACKGROUND Cognitive skills training for minimally invasive surgery has traditionally relied upon diverse tools, such as seminars or lectures. Web technologies for e-learning have been adopted to provide ubiquitous training and serve as structured repositories for the vast amount of laparoscopic video sources available. However, these technologies fail to offer such features as formative and su...

Turk J Anaesthesiol Reanim 2016; 44: 279-82 DOI: 10.5152/TJAR.2016.0011 ©Copyright 2016 by Turkish Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Society Available online at www.jtaics.org Appropriate Treatment of Invasive Candidiasis in ICU: Timing, Colonization Index, Candida Score & Biomarkers, Towards deEscalation? Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa1*, Silvia Corcione1*, Giorgia Montrucchio2, Luca Brazzi2, Gio...

Treatment of six cases of missed abortion and one case of hydatidiform mole with intravenous infusion of prostaglandin E(2) resulted in complete abortion in all cases. Of 15 patients with missed labour, 14 were delivered successfully with similar treatment. The technique appears to be a safe, reliable, and rapid method of managing missed abortion, missed labour, and hydatidiform mole.

Coagulation problems in pregnancy are primarily associated with overactivity of the intrinsic clotting system. This accounts for the increased incidence of thrombo-embolism during pregnancy. Where specific obstetric complications cause clotting problems the common underlying feature is usually placental pathology as in abruptio placentae, pre-eclampsia or hydatidiform mole. Abnormal activation ...

Many problems of clinical as well as of pathological interest gather round the group of tumours of which the hydatidiform mole and the chorion epithelioma are the commonest examples. Amongst the chief points of clinical interest are: (i) The question of the frequency of such growths. Williamson states that moles occur in the proportion of one in 2400 pregnancies. On the other hand, Meyer1 claim...

A review of gestational trophoblastic disease diagnosed at the Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur from January 1989 to December 1990 using established histological criteria showed 25 complete hydatidiform moles (CHM), 11 partial hydatidiform moles (PHM), 1 invasive mole and 2 choriocarcinoma. The ages of the patients with CHM ranged from 21 to 43 years (mean = 28.5 years...

PURPOSE In the present study, the three-dimensional power Doppler was used as a quantitative method to evaluate its reliability in detecting and assessing of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD). METHODS 52 GTD patients who received diagnosis and treatment at the first affiliated hospitals of Xi'an Jiaotong University in China between 2011 and 2013 were evaluated using Voluson E8 (GE Medic...