A 29-year-old woman with partial placenta increta was treated by bilateral uterine artery embolization (UAE) for bleeding with hemorrhagic shock two months after delivery, resulting in permanent hemostasis. The patient underwent a total of three magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations-before UAE and four days and four months after UAE. At four months, MRI showed a fully regenerated uterus...

Key content: • Data on pregnancy following uterine artery embolisation (UAE) are scarce, with just over 200 pregnancies reported to date. • The weight of retrospective data and two small prospective trials of UAE versus surgical intervention suggest increased levels of adverse pregnancy outcomes following fibroid embolisation. • In the absence of more robust evidence, caution should be exercise...

AIM To assess the risk factors, mechanism of injury, and clinical outcome of hospitalized patients with spinal injuries in order to recommend preventive measures. METHODS Patients with spinal injuries admitted to Al Ain Hospital, United Arab Emirates (UAE) for more than 24 h or who died after arrival to the hospital were studied over 3 years. Demography, location and time of injury, affected ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the long-term efficacy and complications of uterine artery embolisation (UAE) for treatment of symptomatic uterine fibroids. DESIGN A prospective observational study. SETTING A district general hospital and two private hospitals in the southeast of England. POPULATION Women with symptomatic fibroids who had been offered surgical options for treatment. METHODS Post...

OBJECTIVE To investigate urinary albumin excretion (UAE) and its relation with C-reactive protein (CRP) and the metabolic syndrome in the prediction of the development of type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used data from the Prevention of Renal and Vascular End Stage Disease (PREVEND) study, an ongoing, community-based, prospective cohort study initiated in 1997 in the Netherland...

INTRODUCTION Urinary albumin excretion (UAE) is a marker of the early phase of diabetic nephropathy. Although a low-carbohydrate diet (LCD) has been shown to effectively improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), its effects on UAE remain unknown. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 124 patients (mean age ± standard deviation, 61.6 ± 9.2 years) with T2DM were instructed to ...

Although metabolic syndrome was not extensively studied in type 1 diabetes, higher insulin resistance, the core feature of the syndrome was found to be associated with increased risk of developing microvascular complications. As diabetic nephropathy may progress to advanced lesion before microalbuminuria appears, we investigated the association of the metabolic syndrome and estimated glucose di...

BACKGROUND Measurement of urinary albumin excretion (UAE) shows important intra-individual variability suggesting the need for multiple assessments. This study aimed at investigating the reproducibility of UAE in type 2 diabetes. METHODS UAE was obtained from two to three samples collected in a 3- to 6-month period from 4062 of the 15 773 type 2 diabetic subjects participating in the Renal In...

In 2013, a novel betacoronavirus was identified in fecal samples from dromedaries in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Antibodies against the recombinant nucleocapsid protein of the virus, which we named dromedary camel coronavirus (DcCoV) UAE-HKU23, were detected in 52% of 59 dromedary serum samples tested. In an analysis of 3 complete DcCoV UAE-HKU23 genomes, we identified the virus as a betacoron...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the results of the uterine artery embolization (UAE) for the treatment of uterine fibroids. METHODS Twenty-six patients with ultrasonographic diagnosis of uterine leiomyomata were submitted to UAE with polyvinyl alcohol particles. Imaging and clinical follow-up was performed before the procedure, at 3 months, and 1 year after. RESULTS All procedures but one were techn...