Oxidative Stress and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Hemodialysis Patients.

Introduction: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is becoming more common around the world and it may progress to cirrhosis and liver failure, increasing mortality risk. In hemodialysis (HD) patients, NAFLD may be a novel risk factor for their high cardiovascular mortality. Heightened oxidative stress is highly prevalent in HD patients.

Prenatal sonographic diagnosis of single umbilical artery: Emphasis on the absent side and its relation to associated anomalies.

Objective: To determine the absent side of a single umbilical artery (SUA) and to evaluate whether associated anomalies are related to the side of the missing artery in a Taiwanese population.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively studied SUA fetuses from our computer database of fetal ultrasound in a tertiary medical center in Southern Taiwan. All cases were diagnosed as SUA prenatally using conventional scanners of two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D, respectively) ultrasound, as well as color, power, and high-definition Doppler.

Prenatal diagnosis of fetal omphalocele by ultrasound: a comparison of two centuries.

Unlabelled: An omphalocele, a fetal abdominal defect, is a very important congenital anomaly. Prenatal diagnosis of fetal omphalocele is crucial to clinical management.

Objective: To investigate the accuracy of prenatal diagnosis for fetal omphalocele, we undertook a retrospective and consecutive analysis of our ultrasound database between January 1994 and December 2011.

Reappraisal of fetal abdominal circumference in an Asian population: analysis of 50,131 records.

Objective: Fetuses from different populations may show different growth patterns. In obstetrics, fetal abdominal circumference (AC) is a very useful index for assessing fetal growth. In this study, we attempted to establish the normal fetal growth curves of AC in an Asian population in South Taiwan.

Prenatal detection of fetal growth restriction by fetal femur volume: efficacy assessment using three-dimensional ultrasound.

As fetal growth restriction (FGR) may have increased risks with perinatal morbidity and mortality, it is very important to detect FGR prenatally. Fetal femur dysplasia is associated with a variety of congenital syndromes and FGR as well. To date, no prenatal assessment of fetal FV in predicting FGR using three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) has been reported.