Hyperemesis gravidarum is defined as presence of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy that affect 50-90% of all pregnant women, seen in the first trimester. Hyperemesis gravidarum often presents with maternal weight loss, electrolyte imbalance, and nutritional abnormalities. It is the most common reason for hospitalization during the first trimester of pregnancy. The risk factors for the disease ar...

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a potentially fatal systemic disease in children caused by a tick- borne virus. Many different clinical and laboratory findings are seen in CCHF. We report here an atypical presentation of CCHF with hyponatremia. CCHF with electrolyte imbalance is not reported before. A 4-year-old girl presented with fever, fatigue and unconsciousness with hyponatremia....

“There wasn’t any insulin left at home, so I skipped a day or two,” Erika explained. The thin teenage girl sat tucked between white hospital linens. Two days earlier, she had been rushed to the emergency department by ambulance after a neighbor found her unconscious at a park near her home. The routine of stabilization and correction of electrolyte abnormalities went smoothly, just like it had ...

Many kinase inhibitors, chemotherapeutic agents, antiemetics, antibiotics, and antifungal agents can prolong QT intervals, placing the patient as risk for the life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia Torsade de pointes (Tdp). In addition, common electrolyte imbalances experienced by many patients with cancer compound the risk. Because numerous medications used in oncology and common electrolyte ...

There has been a widely held belief that people with autism spectrum disorders lack empathy. This article examines the empathy imbalance hypothesis (EIH) of autism. According to this account, people with autism have a deficit of cognitive empathy but a surfeit of emotional empathy. The behavioral characteristics of autism might be generated by this imbalance and a susceptibility to empathic ove...

We describe the unusual occurrence of atrial fibrillation immediately after a seizure in a young patient with cyclosporine toxicity. The new onset atrial fibrillation was triggered by high levels of cyclosporine and possibly facilitated by the electrolyte imbalances post seizure and the presence of underlying mild left atrial enlargement.

Peritoneal dialysis can be considered a "wearable" dialysis therapy. However, patients typically require 3 or 4 daily exchanges, each taking 20-40 minutes and potentially increasing the risk of infection by repeated disconnection and reconnection. Although peritoneal dialysis cyclers allow patients to be "free" from their machine for 13-15 hours, they similarly need a supply of fresh dialysate....

This paper presents a low-cost MIMO channel sounding technique with a fully parallel transceiver architecture that employs a simple time division multiplexing scheme. It aims at both of directional channel measurement using MIMO antennas and MIMO channel measurements for transmission performance evaluation. This paper describes the principle of the channel sounding technique and discusses the s...

BACKGROUND Valid registration of medical information is essential for the quality of registry-based research. Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is characterized by severe nausea and vomiting, weight loss and electrolyte imbalance starting before 22nd gestational week. Given the fact that HG is a generally understudied disease which might have short- and long- term health consequences for mother and c...

In the preceding article (1) it was pointed out that one of the electrolyte disturbances most frequently encountered in the serum of patients with nephritis with uremia was deficiencyof the total electrolyte (base) concentration of the serum and that this was apparently instrumental in the determination of acidosis (reduction of bicarbonate) in a certain and rather large proportion of cases. It...