Bladder exstrophy: reconstructed female patients achieving normal pregnancy and delivering normal babies

Bladder exstrophy: reconstructed female patients achieving normal pregnancy and delivering normal babies.

PURPOSE Bladder exstrophy (BE) is an anterior midline defect that causes a series of genitourinary and muscular malformations, which demands surgical intervention for correction. Women with BE are fertile and able to have children without this disease. The purpose of this study is to assess the sexual function and quality of life of women treated for BE. MATERIALS AND METHODS All patients in ...

Bladder Exstrophy and Epispadias

Introduction Exstrophy and epispadias are part of a spectrum of anomalies characterised by exposure of part or all of the mucosa of the lower urinary tract (bladder and urethra) to the external environment through a defect in the anterior abdominal wall. At one end of this spectrum is cloacal exstrophy, which is the most complex of these anomalies. It is characterised by exposure of the bladder...

Dichorionic Diamniotic Twin Pregnancy Discordant for Bladder Exstrophy

A 38 year-old woman presented with a dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy at gestational age of 32 weeks concerning for an abdominal wall mass in one of the twins. Initial ultrasound evaluation was suspicious for an omphalocele, but the affected twin was found to have bladder exstrophy at birth. This illustrates the difficulties of accurate prenatal diagnosis of bladder exstrophy in a twin pre...

Investigation of ANP Plasma Concentration in Normal Pregnancy and Preeclampsia

با وجود شواهد روزافزونی که بیانگر نقش احتمالی ANP در هموستاز طبیعی مایعات بدن است، اما هنوز اهمیت نقش این پیتید در سلامت و بیماری بدرستی مشخص نیست. بر اثر ازدیاد فشار دهلیزی و تعداد انقباضات آن، ANP از میوسیت های دهلیزی ترشح می شود. تزریق مقادیر زیادی از ANP صناعی به انسان و حیوان سبب کاهش فشار سیستمیک دهلیزی و افزایش دفع سدیم و برقراری دیورز می گردد. مطالعات اخیر بر روی تأثیر تزریق ANP صناعی ...

P-183: TGF-? Level and Insulin Resistance during Normal Pregnancy