BACKGROUND Female patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) often experience cutaneous deterioration associated with their pregnancy or menstrual cycle. OBJECTIVE We wanted to determine the prevalence of symptom aggravation as related to pregnancy and the menstrual cycle in female patients with AD. METHODS One hundred female patients with AD were included in the study and interviews were perform...

Introduction: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia is a heritable disease of the heart muscle characterized by fibrofatty degeneration of cardiomyocytes. Patients present with ventricular arrhythmias or congestive heart failure, and sometimes sudden cardiac death occurs. Prenatal diagnosis has become possible with the detection of mutations, but, to the best of our knowledge, no case of p...

INTRODUCTION Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia is a heritable disease of the heart muscle characterized by fibrofatty degeneration of cardiomyocytes. Patients present with ventricular arrhythmias or congestive heart failure, and sometimes sudden cardiac death occurs. Prenatal diagnosis has become possible with the detection of mutations, but, to the best of our knowledge, no case of pr...

OBJECTIVE To contribute to decision analysis by estimating utility, defined as an individual's valuation of specific health states, for different pregnancy contexts. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data from pregnant women recruited at pregnancy testing clinics during June 2014-June 2015. Utility was measured using the visual analog scale (VAS), PROMIS GSF-derived utility, standard g...

AIMS Concern about the effects of alcohol and drug use during pregnancy is intertwined with debates about abortion. There is concern that alcohol abstinence recommendations lead women using low levels of alcohol to terminate otherwise wanted pregnancies. This study examines how women describe alcohol, tobacco and/or drug use (ATOD) as reasons for deciding to have abortions and assesses the diff...

background about 46 million induced abortions occur in the world annually. the studies have reported 80000 cases of induced abortions in iran annually. objectives this qualitative study was conducted to identify the causes of unsafe abortion in iran from the standpoint of three groups of experts, women with a history of abortion or unwanted pregnancy and service providers. patients and methods ...