Obstetric complications in Marfan syndrome.

Objective: To investigate the obstetric maternal and neonatal outcome of pregnancy in women with Marfan syndrome.

Methods: Retrospective observational multi-center study based on congenital heart disease registry.

Results: Sixty-three of the 122 enrolled women with Marfan syndrome had been pregnant 142 times (including 111 pregnancies>20 weeks, 28 (20%) miscarriages and 3 elective abortions).

Short report: smoking habits and the acquisition of metronidazole resistance in patients with Helicobacter pylori-related gastritis.

Thirty-three dyspeptic patients with colonization of Helicobacter pylori in the gastric antrum were treated with tripotassium dicitrate bismuthate 120 mg q.d.s.