VENOUS PRESSURE AND POSTURE IN NORMAL YOUNG WOMEN

Determination of the venous pressure in the sitting posture.

Intracranial venous thrombosis in young women.

Twenty women of child-bearing age with intracranial venous thrombosis are reported. Thirteen developed thrombosis post-partum; 6 while on oral contraceptives. In one patient no cause was found. All diagnoses were confirmed by carotid angiography and in 10 out of 14 patients laboratory data indicated a hypercoagulable state. Coagulation studies were performed in 14 normal puerperal women, matche...

Body posture in young women involved in regular aeroBic exercise

Purpose. The aim of the study was an assessment of posture in women who regularly perform aerobic exercise. Methods. The study group consisted of 50 women actively participating in aerobics classes (mean: age 28.64 ± 5.3 years, body mass 59.83 ± 6.7 kg, height 167.75 ± 4.9 cm, bMI 21.24 ± 3.6 m/kg) and a control group of 50 women not involved in any regular physical activity (mean: age 28.55 ± ...

Defining normal jugular venous pressure with ultrasonography.

OBJECTIVE Determination of jugular venous pressure (JVP) by physical examination (E-JVP) is unreliable. Measurement of JVP with ultrasonography (U-JVP) is easy to perform, but the normal range is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine the normal range for U-JVP. METHODS We conducted a prospective anatomic study on a convenience sample of emergency department (ED) patients over ...

Vaginal microbial flora in normal young women.

Vaginal swabs were taken from 1498 women attending a family planning clinic. The flora was assessed in the absence of any information about the women to whom the swabs related. Yeasts and fungi were present in 311 women (21%) and were no more prevalent among "pill" users than others. Candida albicans was significantly associated with vulval itching and with a vaginal discharge described as heav...