Anal diseases and pregnancy.

ABC of colorectal diseases. Sexually transmitted diseases and anal papillomas.

Pregnancy and Emerging Diseases

To the Editor: The November 2006 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases featured 2 perspectives (1,2) that highlighted the need for strategies to prevent and treat pregnant patients during outbreaks of new or emerging diseases or during bioter-rorist attacks. However, neither article discussed implications for a surveillance strategy. Based on my previous experience at the World Health Organizat...

Clinical Approaches of Retinal Diseases in Pregnancy

Pregnancy leads to significant changes in the body, which potentially affect the retina. Pregnancy can induce disease such as that seen in hypertensive retinopathy and choroidopathy. It can cause exudative retinal detachments in the HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), ...

ABC of colorectal diseases. Anal cancer.

Anal cancer is relatively uncommon, accounting for about 4% of anorectal malignancies. The condition is of increasing interest owing to appreciable changes in the patterns of treatment. The traditional treatment for anal cancer was a radical abdominoperineal excision, leaving the patient with a permanent colostomy. Emerging evidence shows that most anal cancers respond to a combination of radio...

Connective tissue diseases and pregnancy.

Connective tissue diseases (CTD) such as systemic lupus erythematosus diffuse or limited systemic sclerosis and numerous others affect women frequently during the childbearing period. Every pregnancy in a patient with CTD should be regarded as high-risk pregnancy, and requires intensive monitoring and immediate treatment of clinical problems. For these reasons, for women suffering from CTD, who...