Abdominal Ectopic Pregnancy: A Case Report of an Uncommon Complication of Pregnancy Without Prenatal Care.

Ectopic pregnancy (EP) is a life-threatening condition requiring a high clinical suspicion. This diagnosis must be considered in all female patients of reproductive age presenting with abdominal pain or discomfort who may possibly be pregnant. Ectopic pregnancies occur in a small percentage of all pregnancies and are a significant cause of maternal morbidity and mortality.

Experimentally Induced Reductions in Alcohol Consumption and Brain, Cognitive, and Clinical Outcomes in Older Persons With and Those Without HIV Infection (30-Day Challenge Study): Protocol for a Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.

Background: Both alcohol consumption and HIV infection are associated with worse brain, cognitive, and clinical outcomes in older adults. However, the extent to which brain and cognitive dysfunction is reversible with reduction or cessation of drinking is unknown.

Objective: The 30-Day Challenge study was designed to determine whether reduction or cessation of drinking would be associated with improvements in cognition, reduction of systemic and brain inflammation, and improvement in HIV-related outcomes in adults with heavy drinking.

Presurgical microstructural coherence predicts cognitive change for bariatric surgery patients.

Objective: This observational study examined the relationship between presurgical white matter microstructural coherence and cognitive change after weight loss. It was hypothesized that higher baseline fractional anisotropy (FA) would predict greater baseline and change cognition.

Methods: A sample of 24 adults (BMI ≥ 35 kg/m ) underwent neuropsychological assessment at baseline and 12 weeks after bariatric surgery.

Associations between physical exercise type, fluid intelligence, executive function, and processing speed in the oldest-old (85 +).

Background: While much is known about the effects of physical exercise in adult humans, literature on the oldest-old (≥ 85 years old) is sparse. The present study explored the relationship between self-reported engagement in physical exercise and cognition in the oldest-old.

Methods: The sample included 184 cognitively healthy participants (98 females, MoCA mean score = 24.