Risk Factors for Neonatal Sepsis in Pregnant Women with Premature Rupture of the Membrane by Dwiana Ocviyanti, William Timotius Wahono

“…The study used total sampling method including all pregnant women with gestational age of 20 weeks or more experiencing PROM, who came to the hospital at that time. …”
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Therapeutic Effects of Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum L.) and Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.) on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Type 2 Diabetic Rats by Aida Doostkam, Mohammad Fathalipour, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Azar Purkhosrow, Hossein Mirkhani

“…The NAFLD was established in rats after four weeks of type 2 diabetes induction. The animals were treated with pharmaceutical preparations of milk thistle (Livergol®) and artichoke (Atheromod-B®) extracts for eight weeks. …”
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A Case of Babesiosis in a Pregnant Patient Treated with Red Blood Cell Exchange Transfusion by Baruch Abittan, Aaron Nizam, Michael Oey, Felicia Callan, Lisa Simmonds, Sarah L. Pachtman

“…We present a case of a pregnant woman with history of splenectomy diagnosed with babesiosis at 23 5/7 weeks of gestational age refractory to antimicrobial therapy. …”
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Inhibitory Effect of r-Hirudin Variant III on Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Cataracts in Rats by Xiaojian Gong, Qiuyan Zhang, Shuhua Tan

“…SD-rats were firstly made diabetic by a single intraperitoneal injection of 2% (W/V) STZ (65 mg/kg). Two weeks later, cataract formation was examined by slit lamp microscope, and the cataracted animals were randomly grouped. …”
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Marked Rebound of Platelet Count in the Early Postpartum Period in a Patient with Essential Thrombocythemia by Yoshinori Hashimoto, Rina Hosoda, Hiromi Omura, Takayuki Tanaka

“…She underwent emergency cesarean delivery at 37 weeks of gestation. Although her platelet count was 1000 × 109/L immediately after delivery, it markedly increased to 3271 × 109/L approximately 2 weeks later. …”
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Pleural Mycobacterium Avium Complex Infection in an Immunocompetent Female with No Risk Factors by Ravi P. Manglani, Misbahuddin Khaja, Karen Hennessey, Omonuwa Kennedy

“…A 37-year-old healthy female with no past medical history was admitted to the hospital with two weeks of right sided pleuritic chest pain, productive cough, and fever. …”
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Duodenal Obstruction during Pregnancy by Mansooreh Haghiri, Sedigheh Borna, Kamran Hessami, Ali Sharifi, Seyed Mohsen Ahmadi Tafti, Mahrooz Malek, Nasim Pourdamghan, Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh, Abolfazl Shirdel Abdolmaleki, Maasoumeh Saleh

“…The patient was a 26-year-old woman at 18 weeks of gestation with intractable vomiting, intolerability of oral intake, weight loss, and absence of abdominal pain. …”
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Managing two cases of twin anemia–polycythemia sequence in monochorionic twin pregnancies by Yongke Zhang, Yiheng Liang, Ran Chen, Dirong Zhang, Jing Wu

“…Patient 2 was a nulligravida who was diagnosed with stage 2 TAPS at 18 weeks of gestation. The patient underwent fetoscopic laser surgery. …”
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Primary Intradural Extramedullary Spinal Melanoma in the Lower Thoracic Spine by Kathrin Hering, Anke Bresch, Donald Lobsien, Wolf Mueller, Rolf-Dieter Kortmann, Clemens Seidel

“…Adjuvant radiotherapy was administered two weeks after surgery. The patient was recurrence-free at 104 weeks after radiotherapy but presents with unchanged neurological symptoms. …”
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The Effect of Acupuncture along with Conventional Therapies on the Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis: A Clinical Trial by Sayed Mostafa Hashemi, Farhang Mokhtarinejad, Seyed Mojtaba Abtahi Forooshani, Mehran Rezvani Habibabadi

“…The improvement degree of AR symptoms was evaluated and recorded at baseline, 2 weeks, and 6 weeks after the treatment. Results: The results of this study revealed that a decrease in the runny nose score with a mean of 4.59 ± 3.04 and a decrease in the sneezing score with a mean of 5.30 ± 2.92 were significantly more than those of the control group with a means of 2.85 ± 1.56 and 2.78 ± 1.28, respectively (P value < 0.05). …”
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Limbitis Secondary to Autologous Serum Eye Drops in a Patient with Atopic Keratoconjunctivitis by Jeffrey David Welder, Pejman Bakhtiari, Ali R. Djalilian

“…She was later placed on autologous serum eye drops (ASEDs) and 4 weeks into treatment developed unilateral limbitis. …”
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Triplet Pregnancy with Partial Hydatidiform Mole Coexisting with Two Fetuses after Ovulation Induction and Intrauterine Insemination by Mehmet Serdar Kütük, Mehmet Dolanbay, Hilal Akalın, Mahmut Tuncay Özgün, Turhan Öktem, Munis Dündar, Ercan Aygen

“…The fetus B with molar placenta has been selectively terminated at 11th weeks and the pregnancy was complicated with preeclampsia, hyperthyroidism, and culminated in spontaneous abortion at 20th weeks. …”
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The First Case Report in Italy of Di George Syndrome Detected by Noninvasive Prenatal Testing by Giuseppina Rapacchia, Cristina Lapucci, Maria Carla Pittalis, Aly Youssef, Antonio Farina

“…The patient terminated the pregnancy at 17 weeks. NIPT allowed an early screening of Di George syndrome. …”
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Effect of Topical Brimonidine 0.15% on Conjunctival Injection after Strabismus Surgery in Children by Dong Hyun Kim, Hee Kyung Yang, Sang Beom Han, Jeong-Min Hwang

“…Patients received topical brimonidine 0.15% after surgery for up to 4 weeks. Conjunctival injection was objectively assessed using a software that automatically scored the region of interest from the image of the bulbar conjunctiva. …”
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Combustion Synthesis Porous Nitinol for Biomedical Applications by H. Aihara, J. Zider, G. Fanton, T. Duerig

“…An ovine study in cortical sites of the tibia demonstrated rapid osseointegration into the porous strucutre as early as two weeks and complete bone growth across the implant at six weeks. …”
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Antenatal Depression and Anxiety Among Women with Threatened Abortion: A Case-Control Study by Bahar Sariibrahim Astepe, Sukriye Bosgelmez

“…Study Design: Study group consisted of 121 pregnant women <20 weeks of gestation having vaginal bleeding; control group consisted of 129 pregnant women <20 weeks of gestation not having vaginal bleeding in their pregnancy until that time. …”
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Five-Month Observation of Persistent Diabetic Macular Edema after Intravitreal Injection of Ozurdex Implant by Dominik Zalewski, Dorota Raczyńska, Krystyna Raczyńska

“…The largest increase in mean retinal thickness to average of 528 μm (+164 μm) occurred at 16 weeks and the average BCVA was 0.614 lines BCVA logMAR. …”
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A Study on Effect of Melatonin in Dyslipidemia Caused by Experimentally Diabetes by Deniz Uluışık, Ercan Keskin, Durmuş Hatipoğlu

“…Melatonin group animals received 50 mg/kg melatonin intraperitoneally in daily for eight weeks. Diabetes was induced by subcutaneous injections of streptozotocin at dose of 40 mg/kg for two days as a single dose per day in diabetes group animals. …”
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Phenoxybenzamine in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Potential Role and Novel Mechanisms by Mario A. Inchiosa

“…In addition to severe, unremitting burning pain, the affected limb is typically warm and edematous in the early weeks after trauma but then progresses to a primarily cold, dry limb in later weeks and months. …”
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Effect of Vitamins A, C, and E Supplementation in the Treatment of Metabolic Syndrome in Albino Rats by L. S. Bilbis, S. A. Muhammad, Y. Saidu, Y. Adamu

“…The rats were placed on 8% NaCl diet for 5 weeks and then supplemented with these vitamins for additional 4 weeks in the presence of salt diet. …”
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