Spontaneous Heterotopic Pregnancy: A Case Report of a Potentially Life-Threatening Condition.

Heterotopic pregnancy involves the coexistence of both an intrauterine and an extrauterine pregnancy occurring simultaneously. The spontaneous incidence of heterotopic pregnancy in the general population has been estimated to be 1/30,000. This report discusses the case of a 37-year-old female who presented to the emergency department with vaginal bleeding and lower abdominal pain.

Changes in food behavior during the first lockdown of COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-country study about changes in eating habits, motivations, and food-related behaviors.

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in severe, unprecedented changes affecting the world population. Restrictions in mobility, social distancing measures, and the persistent social alarm, during the first period of pandemic, resulted in dramatic lifestyle changes and affected physical and psychological wellbeing on a global scale. An international research team was constituted to develop a study involving different countries about eating motivations, dietary habits and behaviors related with food intake, acquisition, and preparation.

Ephrin-A3 is required for tonotopic map precision and auditory functions in the mouse auditory brainstem.

Tonotopy is a prominent feature of the vertebrate auditory system and forms the basis for sound discrimination, but the molecular mechanism that underlies its formation remains largely elusive. Ephrin/Eph signaling is known to play important roles in axon guidance during topographic mapping in other sensory systems, so we investigated its possible role in the establishment of tonotopy in the mouse cochlear nucleus. We found that ephrin-A3 molecules are differentially expressed along the tonotopic axis in the cochlear nucleus during innervation.

Associations between inpatient psychiatric admissions during pregnancy and adverse obstetrical and birth outcomes.

Background: Previous research supports an association between psychiatric diagnoses and adverse obstetrical and neonatal outcomes including low birthweight, preterm birth, and preeclampsia. Women who are admitted for inpatient psychiatric care are regarded as having more acute illnesses than those who are able to be managed as outpatients. Previous research has not yet investigated how the severity of psychiatric illness, as indicated by type of antenatal psychiatric care received, is associated with adverse obstetrical outcomes.

Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency is unlikely to be a direct trigger of multiple sclerosis.

Background: Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, a vascular pathology affecting the veins draining the central nervous system can accompany multiple sclerosis and is suspected to be involved in its pathogenesis.

Objective: This study was aimed at exploring a potential role for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in triggering multiple sclerosis. If it were venous abnormalities responsible for neurological pathology, one should expect negative correlation, i.

Internal jugular vein entrapment in a multiple sclerosis patient.

We describe a multiple sclerosis patient presenting with compression of the internal jugular vein caused by aberrant omohyoid muscle. Previously this patient underwent balloon angioplasty of the same internal jugular vein. Ten months after this endovascular procedure, Doppler sonography revealed totally collapsed middle part of the treated vein with no outflow detected.

Critical evaluation of phosphate solubilizing pseudomonads isolated from a partially recultivated potash tailings pile.

Ten phosphate solubilizing pseudomonads isolated from a partially recultivated potash tailings pile in Germany were characterized and tested for their potential to assist in the ongoing recultivation process. Despite fertilization, the plants which are grown for recultivation show phosphate deficiency symptoms, and therefore the isolates are intended to be used as biofertilizer inoculants. On agar plates incubated at five different temperatures, some of the strains showed a temperature-dependent ability to solubilize tricalcium phosphate, while others performed the same at any given temperature.

Neck duplex Doppler ultrasound evaluation for assessing chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis patients.

Introduction: Recent clinical studies have suggested a relationship between multiple sclerosis (MS) and the occurrence of pathological changes in the jugular, vertebral and azygous veins that result in abnormal blood outflow from the brain and the spinal cord. Together, these pathological changes have been designated chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the usefulness of duplex Doppler ultrasound in the evaluation of central nervous system venous outflow disturbances in patients suffering from MS.

An endovascular treatment of Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency in multiple sclerosis patients - 6 month follow-up results.

Objective: In this study, the mid-term results (6 month follow-up) of the endovascular treatment in patients with Chronic Cerebro-Spinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) and multiple sclerosis (MS) were prospectively evaluated.

Methods: Thirty-six patients with confirmed MS and CCSVI underwent endovascular treatment by the means of the uni- or bilateral jugular vein angioplasty with optional stent placement. All the patients completed 6 month follow-up.

Extracranial Doppler sonographic criteria of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in the patients with multiple sclerosis.

Aim: The aim of this open-label study was to assess extracranial Doppler criteria of chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency in multiple sclerosis patients.

Methods: Seventy patients were assessed: 49 with relapsing-remitting, 5 with primary progressive and 16 with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis. The patients were aged 15-58 years and they suffered from multiple sclerosis for 0.

[Venosus thromboembolism in pregnancy--case report].

Venosus thromboembolic disease is an important problem in pregnant women. The overall risk of venosus thromboembolism in pregnancy is 6-times greater then in non pregnant women. In the article we present a case of a pregnant woman with venosus thromboembolism.

[Prophylaxis of prostate diseases].

According to the WHO, what second man after fortieth year of life, which, suffers on disorder of prostate gland fifth can hear once "my the mister of cancer of prostate". The cancer of prostate gland is this second, after cancer of skin, the most often recognizable tumor at men, and second, after cancer of lungs the most often bringing to death. It is the purpose of article the performance of preventive workings inhibitory the excess of prostate gland, as well as reducing the risk of falling ill on neoplasm disease of prostate gland.

The social and economic burden of venous leg ulcers: focus on the role of micronized purified flavonoid fraction adjuvant therapy.

Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) occurs in a relatively large proportion of the population and is associated with significant morbidity, high cost of healthcare, loss of productivity and reduced quality of life. Lower extremity ulcers related to CVI have been estimated to affect 0.2-1% of the population in developed countries.

[Eventration as a complication in general and vascular surgery].

Eventration is a serious complication in the abdominal surgery. Despite the surgical suture technique improvement the frequency of this complication is still increasing. In the paper the cases of the patients operated for the diseases requiring laparotomy from November 1991 to December 1997 were retrospectively analysed.

[Second look in abdominal surgery].

The paper presents authors experience and indications for an elective relaparotomy performed as the second-look laparotomy after primary operation. 12 patients with vascular or surgical diseases were operated on for: abdominal neoplastic tumors (2 patients), elective abdominal aneurysm (2 patients), ruptured abdominal aneurysm (2), abdominal aneurysm ruptured into the inferior caval vein (1), ruptured aneurysm of the iliac artery (1), abdominal aortic coarctation with visceral arteries abnormality (1), thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery (1) and peritonitis because of intestinal ischaemia and necrosis (2 patients). In all cases an elective relaparotomy was done on the 1st or 2nd postoperative day.

[Neoplastic ulceration of the stomach penetrating to the spleen as a cause of sudden fatal gastrointestinal hemorrhage--case report].

History of 71-year-old woman with sudden upper digestive tract hemorrhage is presented. Endoscopic attempt to control the hemorrhage was unsuccessful-patient died during endoscopy. On autopsy it was found that hemorrhage was caused by neoplastic ulceration of the stomach penetrating to the spleen.

Ectrodactyly and absence (hypoplasia) of the tibia: are there dominant and recessive types?

We present a kindred of brother, sister, and cousin with ectrodactyly and hypoplasia of the tibia. The parents of the cousin are consanguineous; the parents of the sibs originate from the same small Algerian village. We also report on a boy with tibial defect and split hands and feet with consanguineous parents.

Jeune syndrome with tongue lobulation and preaxial polydactyly, and Jeune syndrome with situs inversus and asplenia: compound heterozygosity Jeune-Mohr and Jeune-Ivemark?

We report on a male infant with internal hydrocephalus, absence of corpus callosum, papillomas and lobulation of the tongue, notches of the alveolar ridges, short ribs, dysplastic pelvis, hypospadias, short limbs with bowed long tubular bones and postaxial polydactyly of hands, and preaxial polydactyly in one foot. Radiologically this case shares manifestations with Jeune syndrome; the tongue lobulation and the preaxial polydactyly are similar to findings in Mohr syndrome, or short-rib polydactyly syndrome (SRPS), type Majewski. In addition, a female newborn presented with manifestations of Jeune and Ivemark syndromes.