OBJECTIVE To determine fetal and maternal outcomes in women presenting with heart disease during pregnancy and labor. DESIGN Descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Gynae/Obstetrics, MCH, Center, Unit II, PIMS, Islamabad, during a period of 2 years from March 2001 to February 2003. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty-two pregnant women with heart disease delivered at MCH Cente...

OBJECTIVE To compare the adverse fetometernal out come in overweight and normal weight pregnant women. METHODS This comparative cohort study was conducted from 1(st) October 2010 to 30 September 2012. Total 200 gravid women 100 were overweight and 100 normal weight pregnant women with gestational age for 08-40 weeks were included. Women having BMI (25 - 29.9 Kg/m(2)) were measured overweight ...

Human endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) represent 8% of the total human genome. Although the majority of these ancient proviral sequences have only retained non-coding long terminal repeats (LTRs), a number of "endogenized" retroviral genes encode functional proteins. Previous studies have underlined the implication of these ERV-derived proteins in the development and the function of the placenta....

Fetal survival during gestation implies that tolerance mechanisms suppress the maternal immune response to paternally inherited alloantigens. Here we show that the inhibitory T cell costimulatory molecule, programmed death ligand 1 (PDL1), has an important role in conferring fetomaternal tolerance in an allogeneic pregnancy model. Blockade of PDL1 signaling during murine pregnancy resulted in i...

  Background: Increased costs and mortality associated with inappropriate blood transfusions have led to investigations about blood request and blood transfusion techniques. We investigated the transfusion status in patients who underwent orthopedic surgery in Poursina Hospital (Rasht, Iran) to optimizing blood usage and determine if a scheduled transfusion program for every orthopedic surgery ...

Background: Placenta previa is one of the major causes antepartum hemorrhage. Although placenta accounts for approximately 0.4 – 0. % all pregnancies, still it remains a cause fetomaternal morbidity and mortality. Aim: To determine incidence degree its relation to outcome in tertiary care hospital. Methods: This prospective observational study which was carried out department Obstetrics Gynecol...

background: hyperbilirubinemia, or jaundice, is a life threatening disorder in newborns. it is a multifactorial disorder with many symptoms. generally, the physiological jaundice is the most prevalent type however in some regions pathological jaundice is also common. this review article focuses on a brief introduction to jaundice, its types and causes, measuring the bilirubin level, clinical ap...

background: in spite of being vital to save the patients' life, blood transition may be dangerous and even fatal, too the aim of this study was to investigate the side effects (complications) of blood transfusion in the educational hospitals of qazvin. m aterials and methods: this is a descriptive cross sectional and practical study that was carried out in 2010. in this study, all the patients ...

early prediction of ongoing hemorrhage may reduce mortality via the earlier delivery of blood products, adequate orientation of the patient in a dedicated highly specialized and trained infrastructure, and by earlier correction of acute traumatic coagulopathy. we identified 14 scores or algorithms developed for the prediction of ongoing hemorrhage and the need for massive transfusion in severe ...