BACKGROUND Although leiomyomas usually remain asymptomatic during pregnancy, they may complicate its course. In this study, pregnancy outcome observed when myomectomy was performed during pregnancy in carefully selected patients is presented. METHODS A prospective cohort study of 13 women who underwent myomectomy during pregnancy between January 1994 and December 2001. Surgical management of ...

Desendan nekrotizan mediastinit boyundan başlayıp mediastene yayılan nadir ve ölümcül bir mediasten infeksiyonudur. Hastanın kurtarılmasını sağlayan anahtar noktalar erken tanı, agresif drenaj ve komplikasyonların dikkatli bir şekilde tedavisidir. Odontojenik kökenli, hemorajik komplikasyon gelişen ve başarılı bir şekilde tedavi edilen desendan nekrotizan mediastinit olgusunu sunuyoruz. Anahtar...

Considering the fact that the number of WWW servers and users keeps exploding the title of this paper sounds strange, to say the least. However, while every organisation without their own proper URL starts to feel like an outcast, there are clouds over the future of the WWW. After all, the number of "broken links'' keeps rising every month, not just in absolute numbers but also percentage-wise....

With the multiplication of communication medium, the increasing multi-partner global organizations, the remote working tendencies, dynamic teams, pervasive or ubiquitous computing Virtual Communities (VCs) are playing an increasing role in social organizations currently and will probably change profoundly the way people interact in the future. In this paper, we present our position on the key c...

Hypopituitarism is a disorder characterized by the deficiency of one or more of the hormones secreted by the pituitary gland. Hypopituitarism patients may present the symptoms of amenorrhea, poor pregnancy potential, infertility, and no production of milk after delivery. Successful pregnancy in hypopituitarism patient is rare because hypopituitarism is associated with an increased risk of pregn...

Roberto Giugliani and Ursula Matte Serviço de Genética Médica, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Departmento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Instituto Nacional de Genética Médica Populacional, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do ...

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The temperature uctuations in the cosmic microwave background observed by COBE provide strong support for an innationary phase in the early universe, below the GUT scale. We argue that a singlet eld in a hidden sector of an eeective supergravity theory yields the required innationary potential without ne tuning. Reheating occurs to a temperature low enough to avoid the gravitino problem, but hi...