Background: Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (SCT) is a form of immunotherapy for leukemia, multiple myeloma, and relapsed lymphoma treatment. Given substantial advances in safety since its introduction, SCT increasingly studied as treatment refractory autoimmune diseases like psoriasis. Psoriasis multifactorial disease mediated by T-helper type 1 cell response to an unidentified antigen...

During a 5-yr period (1999-2004), of the 529 women of reproductive age admitted with burns, 44 (7.4%) were pregnant. Of these 44, 37 (84%) were in the age group 15-25 yr and 22 (50%) were in the second trimester; 33 burns (75%) were accidental and 11 (25%) the result of suicide attempts. Flame burns accounted for 42 out of the 44 cases (95.5%); two cases were due to scalds (4.5%). Maternal deat...