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Pregnancy and Heart Disease: Pregnancy-Associated Hypertension and Peripartum Cardiomyopathy.
Curr Probl Cardiol
September 2018
Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Cardiovascular diseases are major complications in pregnancy worldwide and the number of patients who develop cardiac problems during pregnancy is increasing. Pregnancy-associated hypertensive complications such as pre-eclampsia (PE) or peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) are potentially life-threatening heart diseases emerging during pregnancy, under delivery or in the first postpartal months in previously healthy women. Both disease entities display substantial morbidity and mortality in the acute phase.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOur purpose was to investigate the influence of a uterine curettage on the immediate maternal sFlt-1 concentration post partum. Forty-six patients booked for delivery via primary caesarean section were included in a prospective open, case control study. Eighteen of them achieved an intraoperative curettage and formed the treatment group, 28 patients without curettage were enrolled in the control group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpectrum of community-acquired acute kidney injury in India: a retrospective study.
Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl
May 2012
Department of Nephrology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttarpradesh, India.
An understanding of the epidemiology of community-acquired acute kidney injury (CAAKI) is necessary to establish its overall burden and plan potential preventive strategies. This study was done in an urban tertiary care center in northern India with the aim to identify the etiology and outcomes as well as the factors associated with in-hospital mortality of CAAKI patients. A five year retrospective analysis of all patients with CAAKI admitted to the Nephrology Department from January 2005 to December 2009 was done.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeptin gene (TTTC)(n) microsatellite polymorphism as well as leptin receptor R223Q and PPARgamma2 P12A substitutions are not associated with hypertensive disorders in pregnancy.
Am J Reprod Immunol
April 2010
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology-Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
Problem: Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) affects up to 15% of all pregnancies. Disturbed placentation is one factor associated with PIH. Leptin and peroxisome proliferator activator receptors (PPAR) seem to play an important role in placentation, fetal development, and blood pressure regulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Ogilvie's syndrome (acute idiopathic colonic pseudo-obstruction) after Caesarean section].
Gynakol Geburtshilfliche Rundsch
October 2007
Frauenkliniken, Kantonsspital Olten, Olten, Schweiz.
Due to incipient HELLP syndrome and no progression in labour, a caesarean was performed on a 33-year-old para I gravida I. During the operation she suffered a heavy blood loss as a result of uterine inertia. In the postoperative stage she developed an acute idiopathic colonic pseudo-obstruction, also known as Ogilvie's syndrome.
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