Initial management of a pregnant woman with trauma

A Pregnant Woman with Factor V Deficiency

Management of Anesthesia During Splenectomy and Cholecystectomy in a Pregnant Woman With Hereditary Spherocytosis

Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a familial hemolytic disorder with intracorpuscular mechanism that characterized by the production of red blood cells with sphere-like shape prone to hemolysis and can lead to hemolytic anemia, splenomegaly, jaundice and gallstones. One of the main reasons for referring these patients to the operating room is splenectomy and cholecystectomy to treat the complica...

A simplified management of diabetic pregnant woman.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a simplified management of diabetic pregnant women. METHODS A prospective study of the management of all diabetic pregnant women (74) during 2 years from March 1995-March 1997 was carried out in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Wad Medani Teaching Hospital, Sudan. Diabetes was diagnosed by an oral glucose tolerance test according to the World Health Organizatio...

A Case Report of Successful Management of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Syndrome (TTP) in a Pregnant Woman with Plasmapheresis

Background and Aim: Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura is a rare and life-threatening disease with a relatively high prevalence of 5% in pregnancy that causes thrombocytopenia. Due to the high prevalence and mortality of fetal and maternal mortality, which resolves rapidly with the onset of plasmapheresis, the diagnosis of this disease is clinically important. The aim of this study was to succ...

Management of a pregnant woman with anti-holley alloantibody.

BACKGROUND Holley (Hy) is a high-incidence antigen of the Dombrock blood group system (ISBT 014), present in almost 100% of most populations and more than 99% of Blacks. Since anti-Hy is an extremely rare antibody, data on its clinical relevance and in particular on a possible hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) are scarce. CASE REPORT The pregnant patient underwent two autologo...