Barriers and facilitators of maternal healthcare utilisation in the perinatal period among women with social disadvantage: A theory-guided systematic review.

Background: Women with social disadvantage have poorer perinatal outcomes compared to women in advantaged social positions, which may be linked to poorer healthcare utilisation. Disadvantaged groups may experience a greater diversity of barriers (e.g.

Experiences of Antenatal Care Among Women Who Are Socioeconomically Deprived in High-Income Industrialized Countries: An Integrative Review.

Introduction: Socioeconomic deprivation in high-income industrialized countries is a key factor in poor perinatal outcomes. Limited access, utilization, and quality of antenatal care seem to play an important role in poor perinatal outcomes.

Methods: This integrative review aimed to explore experiences of antenatal care among women who are socioeconomically deprived in high-income industrialized countries.

[The value of venous digital angiography in the postoperative follow-up of thromboendarterectomy and aorto-iliac-femoral prosthetic replacement].

Personal experience of 21 patients controlled by venous digital angiography following thrombendarterectomy and aorto-iliac-femoral prosthetic substitution is reported. The technique can be usefully employed because it is not too invasive and gives excellent results, peripheral venous injection usually being sufficient to document vasal recanalisation and prosthetic morphology. Venous digital angiography is therefore the examination of choice in the follow-up of patients submitted to aortofemoral revascularisation operations, a field in which traditional angiography has been little utilised owing to the problems of arterial approach.

[Splenic aneurysm studied by angiography and CT].

An unusual case of an aneurysm on the splenic artery diagnosed as an accessory spleen on the basis of sonographic examination triggers a discussion of sonography, CT and angiography in the diagnosis of splenic aneurysms, which though rare in absolute term constitute a real threat to the patient's life giving her [correction of him] a high percentage of spontaneous ruptures when they do occur.

[Percutaneous drainage of abdominal abscesses guided by echography and x-ray computed tomography].

The therapeutic use of computerised tomography (CAT) and echography (ECT) includes guided percutaneous drainage of abdominal abscesses. The indications, method and results are described. As widely reported in the literature in recent years the results appear promising.

[Echography and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography in the evaluation of obstructive lesions of the bile ducts].

Among diagnostic techniques proposed for the study of obstructive jaundice, the initial use of echotomography clearly distinguishes between medical and surgical forms. If surgery is not indicated, further diagnostic investigations, (transhepatic percutaneous cholangiography followed if necessary by drainage of the bile duct) are conducted. Used in conjunction, echography and TPC will solve clinical doubts in most cases.

[Nephrotoxicity of contrast media for urography in patients with chronic renal insufficiency].

The incidence of nephrotoxicity caused by intravenous pielography (IVP) contrast media was retrospectively evaluated in 42 patients with chronic renal failure. In 14 patients renal function was acutely impaired after IVP. In most cases the dysfunction was only temporary; in 3 cases permanent damage was induced, one of which required dialytic treatment.

[Galactography: an indispensable diagnostic supplement in the study of the secreting breast. Evaluation in 132 cases].

Personal experience with 132 galactographic examinations carried out on all types of breast secretion is reported, in 7 patients in the absence of secretion. Radiology showed 38 endoductal productive lesions which did not always reveal themselves with loss of blood from the nipple. Features of the ductal lesions in relation to the type of secretion are compared.

[Breast pneumocystography. 96 tentative cases].

Successful execution of mammary pneumocystography in 87-96 attempts is reported. A brief description of the method and a statistical assessment of the incidence and features of the cysts observed are followed by the expression of a very favourably judgment on the soundness of the technique, and the presentation of several of the more meaningful cases.