Reduced gyrification in fetal growth restriction with prenatal magnetic resonance images.

Placental-related fetal growth restriction, resulting from placental dysfunction, impacts 3-5% of pregnancies and is linked to elevated risk of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. In response, the fetus employs a mechanism known as brain-sparing, redirecting blood flow to the cerebral circuit, for adequate supply to the brain. In this study we aimed to quantitatively evaluate disparities in gyrification and brain volumes among fetal growth restriction, small for gestational age and appropriate-for gestational-age fetuses.

Fetal MRI-Based Body and Adiposity Quantification for Small for Gestational Age Perinatal Risk Stratification.

Background: Small for gestational age (SGA) fetuses are at risk for perinatal adverse outcomes. Fetal body composition reflects the fetal nutrition status and hold promise as potential prognostic indicator. MRI quantification of fetal anthropometrics may enhance SGA risk stratification.

Characterization of extracellular vesicles in COVID-19 infection during pregnancy.

SARS-CoV-2 infection may cause a severe inflammatory response, inflicting severe morbidity and mortality. This risk is modestly increased in pregnant patients. Despite the hypercoagulability and immunosuppression associated with pregnancy, most pregnant women experience a mild COVID-19 infection.

Reduced adipose tissue in growth-restricted fetuses using quantitative analysis of magnetic resonance images.

Objectives: Fat-water MRI can be used to quantify tissues' lipid content. We aimed to quantify fetal third trimester normal whole-body subcutaneous lipid deposition and explore differences between appropriate for gestational age (AGA), fetal growth restriction (FGR), and small for gestational age fetuses (SGAs).

Methods: We prospectively recruited women with FGR and SGA-complicated pregnancies and retrospectively recruited the AGA cohort (sonographic estimated fetal weight [EFW] ≥ 10th centile).

Effect of BMI change on recurrence risk in patients with endometrial cancer.

Objective: Our study aimed to explore the effect of body mass index (BMI) change on cancer recurrence risk during the routine surveillance of endometrial cancer patients.

Methods: Data on patients with endometrial adenocarcinoma that had a staging procedure and continued follow-up was retrospectively collected. We compared patients' BMI at time of surgery and during the last clinic follow-up.

Pharmaceutical Transformation Products Formed by Ozonation-Does Degradation Occur?

The efficiency of an advanced oxidation process (AOP) using direct and indirect ozonation for the removal of pharmaceutical residues from deliberately spiked deionized water was examined. Both direct and indirect ozonation demonstrated 34% to 100% removal of the parent compounds. However, based on the products' chemical structure and toxicity, we suggest that despite using accepted and affordable ozone and radical concentrations, the six parent compounds were not fully degraded, but merely transformed into 25 new intermediate products.

A Simple Model for Assessing Millimeter-Wave Attenuation in Brownout Conditions.

Flying helicopters in adverse environmental conditions, such as low heights in arid regions, can be dangerous, especially during landing and take-off, since during hovering, the rotors produce a dust cloud of particles. This phenomenon is known as the "brownout" condition. Unlike visible and infrared systems, the radar devices in the microwave or millimeter wave region offer the capability of sufficient transmission through atmospheric obscurants, such as fog, smoke, sand/dust storms, and brownout.

Microphysiological models of the central nervous system with fluid flow.

There are over 1,000 described neurological and neurodegenerative disorders affecting nearly 100 million Americans - roughly one third of the U.S. population.

Detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in vaginal swabs of women with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection: a prospective study.

Objective: To determine whether severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is present in the vaginal secretions of both reproductive-aged and postmenopausal women during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: A single tertiary, university-affiliated medical centre in Israel.

Uterine Artery Pseudoaneurysm in a Pregnant Patient with Retrocervical Endometriosis.

A pseudoaneurysm of the uterine artery or its branches is usually a result of vascular trauma during invasive procedures such as a cesarean section, vaginal delivery, myomectomy, hysterotomy, or dilatation and curettage. A uterine artery pseudoaneurysm rupture is a rare, yet life-threatening event. Deep infiltrating endometriosis usually involves a decrease in symptoms and imaging findings throughout pregnancy, with the notable exception of the phenomenon of decidualization.

Microbial and Viral Communities and Their Antibiotic Resistance Genes Throughout a Hospital Wastewater Treatment System.

Antibiotic resistance poses a serious threat to global public health, and antibiotic resistance determinants can enter natural aquatic systems through discharge of wastewater effluents. Hospital wastewater in particular is expected to contain high abundances of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) compared to municipal wastewater because it contains human enteric bacteria that may include antibiotic-resistant organisms originating from hospital patients, and can also have high concentrations of antibiotics and antimicrobials relative to municipal wastewater. Viruses also play an important role in wastewater treatment systems since they can influence the bacterial community composition through killing bacteria, facilitating transduction of genetic material between organisms, and modifying the chromosomal content of bacteria as prophages.

Correction to: Once episiotomy, always episiotomy?

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Once episiotomy, always episiotomy?

Objective: To investigate the association between episiotomy and perineal damage in the subsequent delivery.

Study Design: A retrospective cohort study was conducted, comparing outcome of subsequent singleton deliveries of women with and without episiotomy in their first (index) delivery. Deliveries occurred between the years 1991-2015 in a tertiary medical center.

Influence of atmospheric states in semi-arid areas on hospital admission in cardio-surgical department.

The influence of the changes in atmospheric state, typical for areas close to big deserts, on acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was analyzed. Under test was the group of 3256 patients (77 % males, 23 % females), hospitalized in the Cardio-Surgical Department of Soroka Medical Center at Ben-Gurion University (BGU, Israel) during 2000-2008. To explore the relationship between atmospheric parameters and AMI, multivariate regression analysis has been performed.

Propagation of electromagnetic waves in Kolmogorov and non-Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence: three-layer altitude model.

Turbulence properties of communication links (optical and microwave) in terms of log-amplitude variance are studied on the basis of a three-layer model of refractive index fluctuation spectrum in the free atmosphere. We suggest a model of turbulence spectra (Kolmogorov and non-Kolmogorov) changing with altitude on the basis of obtained experimental and theoretical data for turbulence profile in the troposphere and lower stratosphere.

Prediction of data stream parameters in atmospheric turbulent wireless communication links.

A unified approach for calculation of information data stream parameters in the atmospheric optical communication channel is presented based on irradiance fluctuations of optical wave propagation through turbulence and on a generalized Ricean K-parameter distribution. The effects of turbulence are described via the well-known Kolmogorov scheme of turbulent structure relaxation in terms of stochastic scintillation theory described by the gamma-gamma distribution along with measurements of the values of the refractive index structure parameter, C(n)(2). The relation between the Ricean parameter K and the signal scintillation parameter sigma(I)(2) is considered to develop a unified description of the corresponding probability density function (pdf) of signal fading within an atmospheric wireless communication link.

On the variations in the electrical state under specific meteorological conditions in the ground atmospheric layer in semi-arid areas.

The object of this study is to evaluate the role of synoptic situations or the combination of several environmental parameters typical for regions close to big deserts, as possible exterior pathogenic factors, which give rise to a number of sometimes medically unexplained symptoms and disorders of human well-being. We suppose that one of the most important causes might be atmospheric electricity, whose role in human life, health and feelings can scarcely be exaggerated; in particular, our research is concentrated on the influence of electromagnetic fields on some subsystems of the human organism. Discussed below are the results of one of the initial stages of our research into the problem of the variations in the electrical state in connection with meteorological conditions in the surface atmospheric layer.

The expression of SR calcium transport ATPase and the Na(+)/Ca(2+)Exchanger are antithetically regulated during mouse cardiac development and in Hypo/hyperthyroidism.

The mouse has been used extensively for generating transgenic animal models to study cardiovascular disease. Recently, a number of transgenic mouse models have been created to investigate the importance of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+)transport proteins in cardiac pathophysiology. However, the expression and regulation of cardiac SR Ca(2+)ATPase and other Ca(2+)transport proteins have not been studied in detail in the mouse.

Effectiveness of nifedipine GITS in combination with atenolol in chronic stable angina.

Nifedipine gastrointestinal therapeutic system (GITS) is a once-daily formulation of nifedipine that provides stable plasma concentrations over the entire 24 h dosing interval. Two-hundred and one patients with Canadian Cardiovascular Society class II to III angina who were on 50 mg of atenolol yet still experiencing angina symptoms were randomized to receive either placebo or nifedipine GITS 30, 60 or 90 mg/day. After four weeks of treatment, the changes in time from baseline to onset of 1 mm ST segment depression in the 183 eligible patients were 26.

Premedication with Xylocaine spray does not lead to a false positive rapid urease test.

Rapid urease tests are used for quick identification of Helicobacter pylori during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Rapid urease test solutions contain urea, which in the presence of H. pylori urease, generates ammonia, which changes the test medium color to indicate a positive result.

Evolutionarily conserved promoter region containing CArG*-like elements is crucial for smooth muscle myosin heavy chain gene expression.

In recent years, significant progress has been made toward understanding skeletal muscle development. However, the mechanisms that regulate smooth muscle development and differentiation are presently unknown. To better understand smooth muscle-specific gene expression, we have focused our studies on the smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SMHC) gene, a highly specific marker of differentiated smooth muscle cells.

Open access endoscopy for hospitalized patients.

Objectives: Most requests for gastroenterology consultations for hospitalized patients are for endoscopic procedures. Open access endoscopy has been evaluated in several institutions for outpatients. Our aim was to evaluate an open access policy for hospitalized patients.