During gestation, the female body undergoes a number of changes; accordingly, her microbiota also marked changes throughout duration pregnancy. Some shifts in microbial community are imprinted even before pregnancy and may affect woman's ability to conceive. Prepregnancy obesity inflammatory bowel disease associated with gestational dysbiosis, as several conditions occurring during pregnancy, i...

We describe 2 siblings with the contiguous X-linked gene deletion syndrome, complex glycerol kinase deficiency. The elder sibling demonstrated the difficulties diagnosing this rare condition. Affected children have the combined complications of congenital adrenal hypoplasia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and glycerol kinase deficiency. These patients illustrate the importance of genetic testing ...

The management of a young woman with congenital kyphoscoliosis, who developed symptomatic nocturnal hypoventilation during the third trimester of pregnancy, is described. Nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) was safely and effectively used to correct nocturnal hypoxaemia and hypercapnia from the 30th-36th week of gestation, when a healthy boy was delivered by Caesarean secti...