Objective: This study aims to examine the effect of duration active labor phase on postpartum fatigue and comfort. Methods: descriptive was conducted in a maternity hospital Istanbul, Turkey date 2018. Nulliparous pregnant women without any risk (n: 120) participated study. Data were collected using “Information Form”, “Visual Analogue Scale”, “Postpartum Comfort Scale” Scale for Fatigue”, stat...

Objective: In this study, we evaluated the management of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) in pregnant women and evaluated the postpartum prognosis. Methods: Twenty-four pregnant women, who were diagnosed with CIN at Ehime University Hospital between January 2008 and October 2012, were recruited. The mode of delivery and pathophysiological examination results in the postpartum period wer...

Some serum electrolyte values of 170 cows in eight settled cattle herds in Zaria, Northern Nigeria during the third trimester of pregnancy and first two weeks of lactation were determined. The cows were sampled once weekly during the third trimester of pregnancy and early lactation (first two weeks) periods for two consecutive weeks respectively. The total (overall) mean prepartum and postpartu...

OBJECTIVE Reduced lopinavir concentrations have been demonstrated with use of the capsule formulation during the third trimester of pregnancy. This study determined lopinavir exposure with an increased dose of the new tablet formulation during the third trimester. DESIGN International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials 1026s is a prospective nonblinded pharmacokinetic study in...

OBJECTIVE To explore the effect of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in combination with systemic family therapy (SFT) on mild to moderate postpartum depression and sleep quality. METHODS 249 primiparous women with mild to moderate postpartum depression were recruited and randomly assigned to a control group (n=128), which received conventional postpartum care, or to a psychological interven...

BACKGROUND Postpartum psychosis is a life-threatening psychiatric emergency, which often occurs without significant premorbid symptoms. Although many studies have postulated an involvement of the immune and endocrine systems in the onset of postpartum psychosis, the specific aetiological factors have remained unknown. AIMS To examine the hypothesis that autoimmune thyroid dysfunction may ...

Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of biostimulation (exposure to bulls or androgenized females) on various reproductive variables in suckled beef cows. Bulls or testosterone-treated cows (TTC) were introduced to cows, randomly allotted to one of four groups, within 72 h postpartum. In Exp. 1, Groups 1 and 3 were exposed to bulls and Groups 2 and 4 were exposed to TTC. In ...

In two experiments, 64 crossbred ewes that had lambed in September or January and had their lambs removed within 24 h after birth were assigned to four groups and given the following treatments: group 1 (16 ewes)-1 ml saline, im or iv on d 10 postpartum; group 2 (24 ewes)-150 microgram/gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) in 1 ml saline, im or iv on d 10 postpartum; group 3 (16 ewes)-150 micro...

objective: to report the case of a 28-year old hypercholesterolemic female with postpartum depression, whose triglyceride (tg) and total cholesterol (tc) levels decreased while being treated with fluoxetine. method: a 28-year old female, with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder with postpartum onset based on dsm-iv criteria, was hospitalized at a mental health hospital. her past history in...

the objective of this study was to determine the effect of calcium borogluconate injection 48 and 24 hours prepartum and immediately after parturition on dry matter intake at day of calving, milk yield, incidence of metabolic disorders and uterine conditions during the first 21 days postpartum in cows fed anionic diets. thirty six lactating dairy cows were balanced by parity (1, 2, 3+) and allo...