A disparity between fetal and maternal hemoglobin oxygen affinities (i.e., p < pfl t.rfl&) believed to be important in facilitating oxygen transfer from maternal to fetal circulation. However. human females with high oxygen affinity mutant hemoglobins (pmaternal < p aI) have successfully borne children. calling into question the importance of the usual maternal/fetal P gradient. We have investi...

BACKGROUND The pathogenesis of malaria during pregnancy is not completely understood. There are few published data on complement activation and malaria during pregnancy. This study aimed to investigate complement activation and malaria during pregnancy, and their association with hemoglobin and birth weight. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted at Medani, Sudan. Soluble terminal comp...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate complications in pregnant women with sickle cell disease, especially those leading to maternal death or near miss (severe obstetric complications). METHODS A prospective cohort of 104 pregnant women registered in the Blood Center of Belo Horizonte (Hemominas Foundation) was followed up at high-risk prenatal units. They belonged to Group I (51 hemoglobin SS and three hemo...

Iron Supplementation is generally recommended during pregnancy to meet the iron requirement of both mother and fetus. When detected early in pregnancy, iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is associated with an increase in the risk of preterm delivery. Deficiency of Vitamin C also causes poor iron absorption leading to IDA. This paper deploys non-parametric statistics to analyse and compare the hemoglo...

BACKGROUND Even though the problem of anemia during pregnancy has been adequately emphasized, very little attention has been paid to postpartum anemia. The objective of the current study was to estimate the mean change in maternal hemoglobin from 36 weeks' gestation to 6 weeks postpartum and to identify the factors associated with anemia during the postpartum period among women in a rural devel...

conclusions ultimately, we can conclude that the hemoglobin level at the time of admission and before delivery, the type of disease, gestational age, and transfusion could be effective factors of patient mortality. results the mean maternal age was 27.60 ± 6.37 years. the hemoglobin level at hospital admission was 8.9 ± 1.61 g/dl for the survivors and 7.73 ± 1.19 g/dl for the deceased patients ...

BACKGROUND Anemia refers to a condition having low hemoglobin concentration. Anemia is considered a major risk factor for unfavorable pregnancy outcomes. This is the first study describing the pattern of hemoglobin concentration during pregnancy and its relationship to areas of high and low altitudes in Balochistan (the largest of Pakistan's four provinces). The main objective of this study was...

Amaç: Preeklampsi, gebeliğin 20. haftasından sonra saptanan; yeni başlangıçlı hipertansiyon ve organ disfonksiyonu ile karakterize, progresif, multisistemik bir hastalık olarak tanımlanmaktadr. Hafif şiddetli olmak üzere iki grupta değerlendirilebilen preeklapmsi özellikle formunda ciddi maternal, fetal, neonatal morbidite mortalite ilişkli olabilmektedir. Bununla birlikte preeklampsi etyolojis...

INTRODUCTION Advocates of human maternal placentophagy report that encapsulated placenta is an excellent source of dietary iron. Our study compared the effect of ingested encapsulated placenta on maternal postpartum iron status versus that of a beef placebo. METHODS A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study (N = 23) was conducted among healthy human research participants expe...