Extended glacier retreat is among the main consequences of the rapid warming of the West Antarctic Peninsula. Particularly, in the inner part of Potter Cove (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica) large areas are now exposed to open sea conditions owing to the retreat of Fourcade glacier. During the 2010 austral summer, underwater photographic surveys were undertaken by SCUBA diving up to 30 m in ...

Although congenital renal tumors are rare, congenital mesoblastic nephroma (CMN) is the most common renal tumor in early infancy. It is non-metastatic, well differentiated, amenable to surgical removal, and carries a good prognosis. Polyhydramnios has been detected in most of the published cases of CMN. However, we experienced a rare case of fetal CMN associated with oligohydramnios. A 28-yr ol...

BACKGROUND Transcervical amnioinfusion is a new and relatively safe, simple procedure that can be performed in most modern hospital maternity units. METHODS We reviewed the current medical literature concerning this topic by searching MEDLINE files from 1987 to the present, using key words "amnioinfusion," "fetal distress," "premature rupture of membranes," "meconium aspiration," and "oligohy...

The transplacental transfer of cefuroxime was determined at antenatal fetal blood sampling in a cross sectional study of 78 patients between 15-35 weeks' gestation, 8-138 minutes after a maternal intravenous dose of 750 mg. Mean serum cefuroxime concentration, measured by high performance liquid chromatography, was 7.4 (95% confidence interval (CI) 6.8 to 8.1) mg/l in control fetuses; concentra...

Background MRI has been confirmed as an important tool for fetal central nervous system and other diseases. MRI has also emerged as a powerful approach to imaging heart diseases in infants. But fetus with heart diseases diagnosed by MRI has relative rarely been reported. Now most doctors agree that fetal cardiac MRI can provide some additional information when the patient was with some special ...

Background: Oligohydramnios is the most frequent third trimester complication resulting in a greater number of caesarean sections. This study was carried out to determine role oligohydramnios (AFI<5) and borderline amniotic fluid index (AFI between 5.1-8) for term pregnancy their impact on maternal perinatal outcomes. Objectives current investigation were incidence outcome cases with oligohy...

Received November 4, 2005, from Sonoscan Ultrasonic Scan Centre, Coimbatore, India (S.B.V.); and Anush Hospital, Sathyamangalam, India (A.P.A.). Revision requested November 9, 2005. Revised manuscript accepted for publication November 14, 2005. Address correspondence to S. Boopathy Vijayaraghavan, MD, DMRD, 16 B Venkatachalam Rd, R. S. Puram, Coimbatore 641 002, India. E-mail: [email protected]...