[THE FINDINGS AND CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT LED PREGNANT WOMEN TO TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY DUE TO FETAL HEART DEFECTS: 17 YEARS EXPERIENCE FROM A SINGLE MEDICAL CENTER].

Objectives: The study aimed to assess the fetal heart defects that led to termination of pregnancy (TOP), the weeks' gestation that the defect was first diagnosed, whether TOP was conducted and the timeline of events that led to the decision. This is in order to encourage pregnant women to conduct sonographic screening tests that are recommended during pregnancy.

Methods: All pregnant women with singleton pregnancy who underwent TOP in our institute because of fetal heart defects as an only finding between 2000-2017 were included.

Alpha-lipoic acid and vitamin B complex slow down the changes in mice diabetic cardiomyopathy.

Aim: The aim of our study was to assess histologically and by cardiac ultrasound the effects of alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) and vitamin B complex, as pathogenic therapies, in diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) in mice.

Materials And Methods: We performed an experimental animal study, in which we analyzed from a structural and functional point of view the changes produced in DCM. To produce DCM, we induced diabetes mellitus (DM) in C57BL∕6 mice by intraperitoneal injection of a single 150 mg∕kg body weight dose of streptozotocin (STZ).

Management of a Patient with Tuberous Sclerosis with Urological Clinical Manifestations.

The tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is highly variable as far as its clinical presentation is concerned. For the implementation of appropriate medical surveillance and treatment, an accurate diagnosis is compulsory. TSC may affect the heart, skin, kidneys, central nervous system (epileptic seizures and nodular intracranial tumors-tubers), bones, eyes, lungs, blood vessels and the gastrointestinal tract.

NT-proBNP and Echocardiographic Parameters in Liver Cirrhosis - Correlations with Disease Severity.

determined. Liver disease severity in patients with cirrhosis was established by Child-Pugh class, MELD score and presence/absence of ascites. Results: Plasma levels of NT-proBNP were significantly higher in cirrhotic patients than in the healthy subjects.

Hepatitis C Infection in Hemodialysis Patients.

Three centuries after the identification of hepatitis C virus (HCV), specialized literature has outlined the epidemiology, viral kinetics and clinical manifestations of this infection. A major cause of morbidity-mortality in patients with renal transplantation and in hemodialysis patients is HCV infection. In high seroprevalence countries, internal accounts are not uniform.