Prediction of postpartum onset of rheumatoid arthritis

Article Abstract:

Positive rheumatoid factor tests during pregnancy may predict women more likely to develop postpartum rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Researchers examined 2,547 pregnant women for factors associated with arthritis. One percent had a positive antihuman immunoglobulin G latex agglutination test, and 2.5% had a positive antirabbit immunoglobulin G hemagglutination (RAHA) test. No patient without positive rheumatoid factors before delivery developed RA. At least two patients with positive rheumatoid factors developed RA.

Risk factors, Pregnant women, Rheumatoid arthritis, Rheumatoid factor, Puerperium

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Antenatal prediction of pulmonary hypoplasia by acceleration time/ejection time ratio of fetal pulmonary arteries by Doppler blood flow velocimetry

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Using Doppler ultrasound to measure the acceleration time/ejection time ratio in an unborn baby's pulmonary arteries can identify babies who may develop a lung disease called pulmonary hypoplasia. This was the conclusion of a study of 177 unborn babies. Pulmonary hypoplasia means the lungs are smaller than normal, which can cause respiratory failure and other lung problems.

Innovations, Diagnosis, Lung diseases, Doppler ultrasonography, Prenatal diagnosis

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Effects of hyperthermia on hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in the immature rat: its influence on caspase-3-like protease

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Research has been conducted on intraischemic hyperthermia. The authors have tested the hypothesis that hyperthermia worsens brain injury in immature animals, and the results have demonstrated that hyperthermia makes immature brain susceptible to hypoxic-ischemic insult and leads to brain damage.

Japan, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Science & research, Research and Testing Services, Gynecological R&D, Research, Analysis, Usage, Causes of, Complications and side effects, Proteases, Ischemia, Fever, Hyperthermia, Obstetrics, Brain damage, Gynecological research, Rats as laboratory animals, Laboratory rats

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