OBJECTIVE: To determine the maternal and perinatal complications in patients presented with antepartum hemorrhage (APH) at a tertiary care hospital so that a preventive strategy can be made to optimize fetomaternal outcome. METHODOLOGY: This prospective descriptive study was conducted from September 2007 to august 2008 at Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics unit II, Liaquat University Hosp...

We report a case of dramatic outcome of severe hemolytic disease in a newborn due to RH1 incompatibility. A newborn with A RH1 blood group was admitted in the Mohammed V Military Teaching Hospital for the problem of hydrops fetalis associated with RH1 incompatibility. The blood group of his mother, aged 31, was AB RH1-negative and that of his 37 year old father was A RH1. The mother had a histo...

Fetomaternal or neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) is a rare but serious condition associated with significant fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. The most useful predictor of severe disease is a history of a sibling with an antenatal intracranial haemorrhage. However, NAIT can occur during the first pregnancy and may not be diagnosed until the neonatal period. Antenatal treatm...

X-linked ectodermal dysplasia and immunodeficiency (XL-EDA-ID) is an X-linked recessive disease caused by a mutation in the nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) essential modulator (NEMO). Here we report an XL-EDA-ID patient with atypical features of very few naive-phenotype T cells and defective mitogen-induced proliferation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). The patient's NEMO defect...

BACKGROUND Placental research in carnivores has concentrated on domestic species, which have zonary, labyrinthine placentas with an endotheliochorial barrier. Although the coati, Nasua nasua, is a widely distributed species in South America, data on the development of the placenta and the fetal membranes in this species are very sparse. FINDINGS Four placentas from mid-gestation to near term ...

background: many of the multiple traumatized patients who refer to the hospital need transfusion. transfusion-related acute lung injury (trali) is a serious clinical syndrome associated with the transfusion of plasma-containing blood components. in the article, we present a case of trali following transfusion of packed red blood cells case presentation: a 24 year old male referred to shahid beh...