Pregnant women with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) carry a high risk of arterial or venous thrombosis. Such thrombotic conditions occur more frequently in patients with triple positivity to antiphospholipid antibodies or with high antibody titers. Hepatic infarction is a rare complication in pregnant women with APS, and it sometimes mimics HELLP syndrome. This report describes a preeclamptic p...

BACKGROUND The incidence of renal-cell carcinoma (RCC) is low during pregnancy. There are different approaches for timing of surgery and treatment modalities for RCC in pregnant women in the literature. To our knowledge, this is the first laparoscopic partial nephrectomy case in a pregnant woman. CASE PRESENTATION Herein, we present a 34-year-old woman with a renal mass at her 14th gestationa...

When a pregnant woman makes a decision or acts in a manner that may be detrimental to the health and well-being of her fetus, her physician may be faced with an ethical dilemma. Is the physician's primary duty to respect the woman's autonomy, or to promote behaviour that may be in the best interest of the fetus? The controversial concept of "fetal rights" or the "fetus as a patient" contributes...

The Brief Case: A reactive HIV rapid antibody test in a pregnant woman.

Cultures of whole blood from pregnant women (4 to 6 months), premenopausal women, postmenopausal women, and normal men were grown in the presence of varying concentra tions (1 x 1o-@M, 2 x 1O@M, and 4 x 1O'@M) of diethylstil bestrol (DES), a synthetic estrogen and known carcinogen, to see if It had sex-related cytogenetic effects. DES induced sister chromatid exchanges in lymphocytes from pregn...

The relationship between a pregnant woman and her fetus is unlike any other in law, medicine, or ethics. This Article examines the complexity of the maternal-fetal conflict, focusing on the interests of the woman and the sometimes conflicting interests of her fetus. Part I discusses the typical analytical background of the conflict, explaining the various ethical principles, rights, and obligat...

In the November edition of this Journal, colleagues Calle et al. described a very interesting case of maternal mortality after cardiac arrest in a woman with situs inversus [1]. While their article mainly focusses on the wrongful delivery of shocks by the AED in this woman, possibly related to her situs inversus, I would like to address two other very important issues in the resuscitation of pr...

One of the axioms in tobacco control is that today’s outrage from the tobacco industry will be eclipsed by tomorrow’s. Just when you think you’ve seen the worst possible transgression by the bad guys, something even worse comes along. The “outrage” in the spring of 1985 was an advertisement for Newport Lights which featured a pregnant woman, or at least a woman who looked pregnant—very pregnant...