Publications by authors named "Carlos Riano"
Article Synopsis
- Somatic support refers to maintaining homeostasis in a pregnant woman with brain death to ensure fetal viability.
- A case is presented involving a 21-week-pregnant woman who developed respiratory distress due to influenza A, necessitating VV ECMO support after she suffered brain death from intracranial hemorrhage.
- A multidisciplinary team decided to continue somatic support to allow the fetus to develop to a stage where it could survive outside the womb, raising complex clinical, ethical, and legal issues.
Background: This double-blind, randomized trial compared dural puncture epidural analgesia (DPEA) for labor using 25-gauge and 27-gauge pencil point spinal needles. We hypothesized that both needle sizes would result in similar onset time (equivalence margin=2.5 min) and therefore designed the study as an equivalence trial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 22-year-old pregnant woman was seen at 14 weeks of pregnancy for infective endocarditis with a vegetation of 15 mm and wide mobility, which affected the native mitral valve accompanied by severe valvular insufficiency. Antibiotic treatment was given for 4 weeks despite the embolism risk. Due to persistence of vegetation size and after considering the fetal and maternal risk, the surgical procedure was favored.
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