Glucose plasma levels and pregnancy outcomes in women with HIV.

Background: There is limited information on the relation between glucose levels in pregnancy and adverse perinatal outcomes in HIV-infected pregnant women.

Objective: To evaluate the potential impact of fasting glucose levels on pregnancy outcomes in a large sample of pregnant women with HIV from a national study, adjusting for potential confounders.

Methods: Data from the Italian National Program on Surveillance on Antiretroviral Treatment in Pregnancy were used.

Giant secreting adrenal myelolipoma in a man: a case report.

Introduction: Adrenal myelolipoma is a rare, benign neoplasm that is usually asymptomatic, unilateral and nonsecreting. It develops within the adrenal gland and is composed of mature adipose tissue with elements of the hematopoietic series. We describe the case of what is, to the best of our knowledge, one of the largest secreting adrenal myelolipomas reported in the literature.

Treatment change in pregnancy is a significant risk factor for detectable HIV-1 RNA in plasma at end of pregnancy.

Purpose: To investigate the risk factors for an HIV-1 RNA plasma viral load above 400 copies/mL in the third trimester of pregnancy.

Methods: Data from a large national study were used. The possible determinants were assessed in univariate analyses and in a multivariate logistic regression model in order to adjust for possible confounders.

An atypical case of hepatic cavernous hemangioma.

Introduction: The case of an atypical hepatic angiocavernoma is referred. The lesion, first described as a hypoechogenic area compared to the surrounding parenchyma, with anechogenic shoots inside, suggestive for vascular structures developed one year later into a totally asonic area with frayed margins. This change is very unusual and uncommon for this kind of lesions.

Ultrasonographic study of gallbladder wall thickness and emptying in cirrhotic patients without gallstones.

Background And Aim: Gallbladder wall thickening and impaired contractility are currently reported in cirrhotic patients and often related to portal hypertension and hepatic failure. The purpose of this work was to evaluate, by ultrasonographic method, gallbladder wall thickness and gallbladder emptying after a standard meal in normal subjects and in patients with compensated liver cirrhosis without gallstones.

Methods: Twenty-three patients with Child-Pugh class A liver cirrhosis and twenty healthy controls were studied.