Continuous ropivacaine subfascial wound infusion after cesarean delivery in pain management: A prospective randomized controlled double-blind study.

Objective: The aim of this study is to analyze post-cesarean morphine consumption using continuous ropivacaine subfascial wound infusion.

Methods: After standardized spinal anesthesia (0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine 8-10 mg combined with sufentanil 2-2.

Reduction of hospital stay at maternity unit: an evaluation of the impact on maternal and neonatal readmission.

In June 2015, the Belgian federal minister of public health imposed a reduction of 1 day in hospital stay at the maternity unit. This retrospective cohort study evaluated data of all patients who delivered between January 01 2010 and November 30 2015. Neonatal readmissions during the first 28 days postpartum and maternal readmissions during the first 6 weeks postpartum were studied.

Immobility reaction at birth in newborn infant.

Objective: To describe an immobility reaction (IR) that was not previously reported at or immediately after birth in human newborns.

Method: We analyzed 31 videos of normal term vaginal deliveries recorded from Time 0 of birth defined as the as the moment that lies between the birth of the thorax and the pelvis of the infant. We searched for perinatal factors associated with newborn's IR.

Cumulative delivery rates after ICSI with donor spermatozoa in different age groups.

This retrospective cohort study followed a total of 364 women from their first fresh, donor intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycle through to up to six ICSI cycles. All patients started their treatment between January 2003 and December 2007. Live delivery after 25 weeks of gestation was the main outcome measure.

[Cord blood: from bench to bedside].

Since 1974, umbilical cord blood (CB) has been shown to contain haematopoietic stem cells similar to stem cells from the bone marrow. In 1988, E. Gluckman and her colleagues performed - successfully - the first familial CB transplantation and cured a 5 years old child suffering from Fanconi's anemia.

Umbilical cord pseudocyst in trisomy 18.

Prenatal diagnosis of cord defects by means of ultrasound examination is possible and highly accurate. Although this is a rare pathological finding, we report two cases in which umbilical cord pseudocysts were associated with trisomy 18. These observations underscore the need of umbilical blood sampling for establishing the karyotype in fetuses with such umbilical cord anomalies and the importance of careful examination of placentas and infants born with such defects.

[Pyostercoral peritonitis of diverticular origin. Retrospective analysis of 22 cases].

Twenty-two cases of diverticulitis with perforation and peritonity have been treated whether by colostomy (13 cases) or primary resection (9 cases). Primary resection reduces mortality and morbidity of the emergency operation and the combined mortality and morbidity of all operative procedures.

Report on a preliminary survey by the WHO Bilharziasis Advisory Team in Upper Volta.

The WHO Bilharziasis Advisory Team made a survey in Upper Volta during May and June 1960. Data available indicate that S. haematobium is widely scattered throughout the country and that about 50% of the population, or more than 1.

Bilharziasis control in relation to water resources development in Africa and the Middle East.

As part of its world-wide programme for the control of bilharziasis, the World Health Organization has set up a Bilharziasis Advisory Team, composed of an epidemiologist and an engineer, to investigate in different countries the prevalence of the disease and its relationship to irrigation, agriculture and a variety of factors associated with the development of water resources. This paper is an appraisal of the situation in 15 countries in Africa and the Middle East, based largely on surveys conducted by the Bilharziasis Advisory Team in the period 1958-60.Analyses of data from these 15 countries indicate that about 26 million people, out of a total population of 107 million, have bilharziasis.