GESTATIONAL DIABETES: PREVALENCE AND RISKS FOR THE MOTHER AND CHILD (REVIEW).

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is chronic hyperglycemia during gestation in women without previously diagnosed diabetes. This hyperglycemia is caused by impaired glucose tolerance due to pancreatic β-cell dysfunction in the setting of chronic insulin resistance. GDM has been found to affect approximately 4-16.

Renal blood flow before and after portosystemic shunt in children with portal hypertension.

Introduction: Variceal haemorrhage in children with extrahepatic portal hypertension is best controlled by an effective decompressive shunt, but long-term follow up of children who have had splenorenal shunt due to extrahepatic portal hypertension (EHPH) gave evidence for assuming the risk of renal venous hypertension (RVH).

Purpose: To study renal hemodynamic before and after portal decompression.

Methods: The results of 144 portosystemic shunt operations were followed from 2005 to 2013.