Background: Preeclampsia origin has no conclusive explanation. As part of its etiology it has been proposed immunologic disorders. This work explores several lymphocytes subsets and postulates possible mechanisms involved in a lost of immune tolerance in this entity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe cervical pregnancy is a rare clinical illness among the ectopic pregnancies; the diagnosis at the moment is made by means of ultrasonography, which shows an empty uterus and a gestation in cervical channel. At the moment the preservative treatment can be made with methotrexate, without determining of precise way the factors of fault for this handling, leaving the single surgical treatment in emergency situations, avoiding the uncontrollable haemorrhage. This paper reports the case of a patient with a cervical pregnancy of nine weeks, live, with initial determination of corionic gonadotrophin hormone of 68,919 mUl/mL; reason why it is decided to interrupt the gestation being applied two doses of methotrexate; first IV of 85 mg and second with intraamniotic application.
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