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Ann Surg
December 2024
Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Objective: The aim was to assess fertility, sexual function and sexual quality of life in males with Hirschsprung's disease (HSCR) in the Nordic countries with a cross-sectional study using self-reported validated questionnaires.
Summary Background Data: Data on fertility and sexual function in males with HSCR are limited.
Methods: This multi-center study targeted all males born between 1970-2003 who underwent pull-through surgery at a pediatric surgery center in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, or Finland.
Exp Gerontol
December 2024
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Background: Most body composition research in individuals with Down Syndrome (DS) has focused on overweight and obesity. Although limited research has shown muscle mass indexes and physical performance levels of adults with DS are similar to or lower than older adults with sarcopenia, there is still a large gap in the literature regarding sarcopenia.
Objective: This brief report provides a comprehensive descriptive analysis of sarcopenia and obesity markers in individuals with DS.
Pediatr Cardiol
December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Persiaran Abu Bakar Sultan, 80100, Johor Bahru, Johor DT, Malaysia.
Limited studies are available on the outcome of infants with trisomy-21 and pulmonary hypertension (PHT) in lower- and middle-income countries. This population-based cohort study aims to determine the outcome and survival from birth to 5 years of infants with trisomy-21 and PHT born between 2016 and 2021. The mortality rate and Kaplan-Meier survival analysis were calculated to assess survival rates at 1 and 5 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Midwifery Womens Health
December 2024
Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Trisomy 18 (T18) is the second-most common autosomal trisomy and includes multiple anomalies, growth restriction, and a severely shortened life span, often lasting only hours or days. Côté-Arsenault and Denney-Koelsch extended Reva Rubin's work, describing the psychosocial stages of pregnancy by describing the stages and developmental tasks for a pregnancy altered by a life-limiting fetal condition such as T18. When a diagnosis of T18 is made prenatally, the pregnancy changes dramatically, although it remains a psychosocial developmental process.
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December 2024
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. Electronic address:
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