A recent British news report confirms this rare but serious risk. A British woman underwent an amniocentesis in May 2000. Her uterus was infected with deadly E. Coli bacteria during the amniocentesis, she went into septic shock, began miscarrying her baby, and died of a heart attack caused by septic shock from the amnio. Both the mother and the baby were lost. A gynecological expert speculated that it was likely that the amnio needle had accidentally perforated her bowel during the procedure
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This is a problem because most people who get liver cancer get it in the setting of the chronic liver disease, cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is the irreversible fibrosis or scarring of the liver. There is a growing problem with cirrhosis, which has become a significant problem, given the obesity epidemic occurring
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Stroke is a disease with disturbance or damage in brain function that may cause temporary or permanent function loss of the part of the body or even death. This disease is one of the major leading causes of death almost in all over the world, including Indonesia. According to Riskesdas' survey result, stroke causes 15,4% death in all ages in Indonesia. This rate is the highest among all death rates caused by other non-transmitted diseases. (Departemen Kesehatan RI, 2011) As a heterogeneous disease
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Abstract— Brain hemorrhage is a type of stroke, which occurs due to artery bursting in the brain, causing bleeding in the surrounded tissues. Diagnosing brain hemorrhage, which is mainly through the examination of a CT scan enables the accurate prediction of disease and the extraction of reliable and robust measurement for patients in order to describe the morphological changes in the brain as the recovery progresses. The aim of this project is to help radiologist as well as medical students in diagnosis
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Platelet-activating factor (PAF) or phospholipid, 1-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine is a phospholipid activator and mediator of leukocyte functions that has many physiological actions. It was discovered and many studies have been done to characterize its messenger functions as a phospholipid.1 PAF is produced by many different cell types such as leukocytes, platelets, mast cells and vascular endothelial cells. PAF amplifies inflammatory responses by promoting leukocyte activation and
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ARTICLE REVIEW - 1 Imaging the Endometrium: Disease and Normal Variants Student Name : Dr. Sadia Shaheen Specialization : MD Radiodiagnosis / Fellowship of Royal College of Radiology training program Batch : March 2016 Year of study : 1st Year Hospital : Sagar Hospital, Bangalore SOURCE : RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (RSNA) - http://pubs.rsna.org INTRODUCTION : Throughout the period from menarche to the menopause, including the prepurbertal
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Do not mix Herceptin with other drugs. Adjuvant Treatment, Breast Cancer: Administer according to one of the following doses and schedules for a total of 52 weeks of Herceptin therapy: During and following paclitaxel, docetaxel, or docetaxel/carboplatin: • Initial dose of 4 mg/kg as an intravenous infusion over 90 minutes
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all day fat. ________________________________________ Tomatoes The most widely used in Mexican cuisine and others as well, they contain huge amounts of vitamin C and other antioxidants, but they have high concentration of lycopene. Lycopene is a cancer fighter and even ward off heart disease. Kale Kale known to have vitamin A, vitamin K, and vitamin C, antioxidants, and lowers cholesterol can be used in smoothies, salads and chips. Grapefruit One fruits that helps in shedding weight with anti-oxidants
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age of 31 Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Henrietta was under treatment at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where cells from her malignant tumor were removed. Neither Henrietta nor any of her family members knew about the tissue sample and nor did the Hopkins ever informed them of the situation. Unfortunately after Henrietta’s radiation treatment, her condition continued to worsen and soon she lost her battle to cancer on octomber 4th 1951. Henriettas cells left the Hopkins
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RATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF INCISIONAL HERNIA ONE YEAR AFTER URGENT MIDLINE LAPAROTOMY Abd-El-Aal A. Saleem1, Hassan A. Abdallah1, Osama A. Abdul Raheem1, Mohamed Yousef A1. 1 Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt. Correspondence to Abd-El-Aal A. Saleem, MD, Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt. Tel.: 0934608283 - 01001203179
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