Gremlin-1 in pregnancy and postpartum: relation to the fatty liver index, markers of bone health, glucose metabolism and gestational diabetes mellitus status.

Introduction: Gremlin-1 is a peptide that functions as an antagonist to bone morphogenic proteins and is overexpressed in obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Gremlin-1 has not yet been investigated in pregnancy, pregnancy-related insulin resistance or gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

Patients And Methods: Gremlin-1 levels were measured throughout the pregnancy of 58 women at high risk for GDM at the Medical University of Vienna.

Glypican-4 in pregnancy and its relation to glucose metabolism, insulin resistance and gestational diabetes mellitus status.

Glypican-4 (GPC-4) is an adipokine that enhances insulin receptor signaling. Plasma concentrations were found to be elevated in patients with prediabetes but reduced in type 2 diabetes mellitus. No study on Glypican-4 in pregnancy and pregnancy-related insulin resistance has been published yet.

Validation of 3D-laser surface registration for image-guided cranio-maxillofacial surgery.

Aim: Image-data-based navigation plays an important role during surgical treatment in anatomically complex areas. Conventional patient-to-image registration techniques on the basis of skin and bone markers require expensive and time-consuming logistic support. A new markerless, high-resolution laser surface scan technique for patient registration has been tested in experimental and clinical settings.