Refractory Thrombocytopenia in a 29-Year-Old Pregnant Woman With Autoimmune Hepatitis: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a rare autoimmune liver disease that mostly affects women in their reproductive years, leading to impaired fertility. Nonetheless, the majority of women with well-controlled AIH have a favorable prognosis for pregnancy. This case report describes a 29-year-old pregnant woman with cirrhosis secondary to AIH who presented with severe thrombocytopenia.

Framework for obstetrics and gynecology department change management in response to COVID-19 pandemic: A tertiary center experience.

Coronavirus (cov) disease 2019 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome cov 2 has imposed significant demands on healthcare systems across the world. These demands were more significant on obstetrics and gynecology (obgyn) patients, who required services that had to continue despite the closure of other services. This paper describes the change management of an obgyn department at a tertiary health-care center.

Maternal and Fetal Outcomes in Pregnancies affected by Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors.

 This study was aimed to describe perinatal outcome of a cohort of pregnant patients with bone and soft tissue tumors and to compare the current series with our group's previously reported experience.  Pregnant women diagnosed before and during pregnancy were identified, retrospectively, for the years 2004 to 2014. Relevant maternal and neonatal data were collected.

Severe hypoglycemia in peritoneal dialysis patients due to overestimation of blood glucose by the point-of-care glucometer.

Although overestimation of blood glucose (BG) by certain glucometers in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients has been reported, awareness of this problem by healthcare providers of multiple disciplines and different specialties is probably insufficient. This is a case series of four patients who had severe symptomatic hypoglycemia and normal BG by point-of-care glucometer at a tertiary care center from December 2007 to September 2008. We report four insulin-treated diabetic patients (age = 58.