Long-term Zika complications

Proteinuria- Long Term Complications

Patients with diabetes or hypertension with microalbuminuria (MA)/ proteinuria are prone to CV risk and progressive renal damage. This risk increases progressively with increasing levels of proteinuria. MA generally increases the relative risk of CV mortality by 1.3 and macroproteinuria by 2.4. 10-20% of hypertensive, 30-40% of diabetics and 5-7% of healthy population has MA. The CV risk exists...

Long-term complications of diabetes mellitus.

Long-term complications in Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors.

Background. Although patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) achieve prolonged survival, long-term complications are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among long-term survivors of HL. Methods. We retrospectively evaluated long-term complications in 336 HL survivors treated between January 1990 and January 2006 at the Department of Medical Oncology of the Hacettepe University Institute of O...

Hemorrhagic complications of long-term anticoagulant therapy.

T he main complication of anticoagulation therapy is bleeding. We have conducted a literature review to determine: (a) the rate of bleeding during long-term anticoagulant therapy in various clinical disorders, and (b) the clinical and laboratory risk factors that predispose patients to bleeding. For the purposes of this review, we defined long-term therapy as lasting greater than 4 weeks. Hemor...

Long- and short-term complications of episiotomy

Although extensively applied in obstetrics practice to facilitate delivery by increasing the vaginal birth conduit, most episiotomy studies are in the context of short- or medium-term outcomes, and the number of studies investigating the long-term effects is insufficient. Episiotomy is often considered associated with urinary and/or anal incontinence and dyspareunia; however, there is no concre...