Chromosomal abnormalities in couples with repeated fetal loss: An Indian retrospective study.

Background: Recurrent pregnancy loss is a common occurrence and a matter of concern for couples planning the pregnancy. Chromosomal abnormalities, mainly balanced rearrangements, are common in couples with repeated miscarriages.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the contribution of chromosomal anomalies causing repeated spontaneous miscarriages and provide detailed characterization of a few structurally altered chromosomes.

Follicular lymphoma in situ presenting as dermatopathic lymphadenopathy.

Introduction. Follicular lymphoma in situ (FLIS) is a recently described entity with few cases recognized worldwide. To our knowledge, this is the first FLIS reported from West Africa.

Assessing the risk of birth defects associated with exposure to highly active anti-retroviral therapy during organogenesis in rats.

The use of anti-retroviral drugs during pregnancy has increased since the demonstration of reduction of mother-to-child transmission of HIV with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The risk of HAART cannot be ruled out; data are generally limited or varied. This study intends to thoroughly assess the teratogenic effect of HAART on the organogenesis stage of fetal development using animal model.

Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii IgG antibody in HIV-infected patients at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

Background: Toxoplasmosis is caused by infection with a ubiquitous intracellular protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii. With the advent of the HIV pandemic in Nigeria, toxoplasmic encephalitis has become one of the more frequent opportunistic infections and the most commonly implicated cause of focal brain lesions complicating the course of AIDS.

Objectives: This study was conducted to compare the pattern of seroprevalence of T.

Plasma folate studies in HIV-positive patients at the Lagos university teaching hospital, Nigeria.

Introduction: In various studies globally, the prevalence of anemia in persons with HIV infection range from 10 to 20% at initial presentation, and anemia is diagnosed in 70 to 80% of these patients over the course of HIV disease. The etiology of anemia in this group of patients has not been fully established, thus a need to evaluate the role of plasma folate as a possible etiological factor.

Objective: This study was set to determine plasma folate levels in newly diagnosed, treatment naïve, HIV-positive patients, and relate this to other hematological changes.