Objective: The postpartum period represents a vulnerable time for women's mental health, especially for those with complications and prematurity. This study aims to explore the evolution of depression and anxiety levels during the 12 weeks postpartum in mothers of premature babies.
Design: Prospective study of two parallel cohorts.
Alcohol consumption induces a dose-dependent noxious effect on skeletal muscle, leading to progressive functional and structural damage of myocytes, with concomitant reductions in lean body mass. Nearly half of high-dose chronic alcohol consumers develop alcoholic skeletal myopathy. The pathogenic mechanisms that lie between alcohol intake and loss of muscle tissue involve multiple pathways, making the elucidation of the disease somewhat difficult.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Excessive ethanol intake is one of the most frequent causes of acquired dilated cardiomyopathy in developed countries. L-type Ca(2+) channels, involved in excitation-contraction coupling, are disturbed in animal models of persistent ethanol consumption. This study was designed to evaluate the density and function of myocardial L-type Ca(2+) channel receptors in organ donors with chronic alcoholism and controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFApoptosis is a mechanism of cell death implicated in the pathogenesis of alcohol-induced organ damage. Experimental studies have suggested alcohol-mediated apoptosis in the cardiac muscle, and there is evidence of skeletal muscle apoptosis in long-term high-dose alcohol consumers. The relation between skeletal and cardiac muscle damage in alcoholism led us to consider the pathogenic role of apoptosis in alcoholic dilated cardiomyopathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Excessive ethanol intake is one of the most frequent causes of acquired dilated cardiomyopathy in developed countries. The pathogenesis is multifactorial, with the antioxidant imbalance of cardiac muscle being a potential factor. The current study evaluates myocardial antioxidant status in ethanol consumers and its relation to cardiac damage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFApoptosis is a common mechanism of programmed cell death that has been implicated in the pathogenesis of alcohol-induced organ damage. Experimental studies have suggested alcohol-mediated apoptosis in cardiac muscle. The relationship between skeletal and cardiac muscle damage in alcoholism led us to consider the possible role of apoptosis in the pathogenesis of skeletal myopathy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate both the opinion that living liver donors have of the process and the psychological, economic, and social consequences of donation.
Material And Methods: Six months after the donation, an anonymous survey was sent to 22 donors of the right liver lobe between March 2000 and December 2002.
Results: 15 surveys were returned with all of the questions answered.
Background: Muscle weakness and structural changes in striated skeletal muscle are common in persons with chronic alcoholism.
Objective: The objective of the study was to assess the role of malnutrition in the development of chronic alcoholic myopathy.
Design: We prospectively evaluated 146 men who reported an intake >/=100 g ethanol/d for the previous 5 y and 73 well-nourished control subjects.
Background: Malnutrition seen in chronic alcoholics is partly due to reduced energy intake. Leptin is a peptide hormone implicated in the regulation of appetite and expenditure of energy. The prevalence and significance of abnormal circulating leptin levels in alcoholics, as well as the relationship of these levels with nutritional status, liver disease, and ethanol consumption, remain uncertain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chronic excessive ethanol consumption exerts a deleterious effect on the myocardium. Although the effects of chronic alcoholism on systolic cardiac function are well known, diastolic involvement has been evaluated only partially. Therefore, we determined the presence of left ventricular diastolic impairment in chronic alcoholics and its relation with simultaneous systolic dysfunction.
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