Successful Conservative Management of Second Trimester Spontaneous Abortion Complicated by Clostridial Sepsis.

Clostridium perfringens is responsible for 5% of septic abortions. Emergent hysterectomy is often required for patient survival. This can be devastating to patients desiring future fertility.

Ovary and Fallopian Tube Displacement in an Adolescent Patient with a History of Omphalocele.

Background: Omphalocele is an abnormality in which fetal abdominal organs protrude through the abdominal wall.

Case Report: We report the case of a 13-year-old female with a history of omphalocele repair who presented with acute periumbilical pain, nausea, and vomiting. A computed tomography scan showed a para-ovarian cyst and mild dilation of the small bowel.

Successful Treatment of Recurrent Pyloric Stenosis Using Balloon Dilation.

Infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is a common surgical disease in infants, with an incidence of 2 to 5 cases per 1000 live births. It often presents with nonbilious projectile vomiting after feeding and a mid-epigastric mass in infants between the third and eighth weeks of life. Ramstedt pyloromyotomy remains the gold standard of treatment.

Protecting and Advancing Women's Health and Rights Post-Roe Era Through Policy.

Since federal legalization in 1973, abortion has become a safe and popular option for those who desire to terminate a pregnancy. However, the Supreme Court decision of in June 2022 clearly outlined a national divide that shifted abortion rights in the hands of state legislatures. This shift in legislative power will unveil major systematic flaws and further exacerbate health inequalities among underserved populations.

Dietary effects on the determinants of food choice: Impulsive choice, discrimination, incentive motivation, preference, and liking in male rats.

The current study sought to understand how long-term exposure to diets high in saturated fat and refined sugar affected impulsive choice behavior, discrimination abilities, incentive motivation, food preferences, and liking of fat and sugar in male rats. The results showed that 8 weeks of dietary exposure impaired impulsive choice behavior; rats exposed to diets high in processed fat or sugar were more sensitive to changes in delay, a marker of impulsivity. For the high-fat group, these deficits in impulsive choice may stem from poor time discrimination, as their performance was impaired on a temporal discrimination task.

Diet-induced impulsivity: Effects of a high-fat and a high-sugar diet on impulsive choice in rats.

Impulsive choice is a common charactertistic among individuals with gambling problems, obesity, and substance abuse issues. Impulsive choice has been classified as a trans-disease process, and understanding the etiology of trait impulsivity could help to understand how diseases and disorders related to impulsive choice are manifested. The Western diet is a possible catalyst of impulsive choice as individuals who are obese and who eat diets high in fat and sugar are typically more impulsive.