AIM To evaluate the accuracy of middle cerebral/umbilical artery resistance index (C/U RI) ratio in predicting acidemia and low Apgar score at 5 minutes after birth in the infants of women with preeclampsia. METHODS This prospective case-control study performed at Kasr El Aini University Hospital included 50 pregnant women with preeclampsia with or without intrauterine growth restriction (IUG...

X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (X-SCID) is a rare, life-threatening immune disorder, caused by mutations in the gamma c chain gene, which encodes an essential component of the cytokine receptors for interleukin-2 (IL-2), IL-4, IL-7, IL-9, IL-15, and IL-21. A 13-month-old boy with recurrent infections who had reduced serum immunoglobulin levels and decreased numbers of CD3, CD16/56 ce...

A 78-year-old male patient who had an indwelling urinary catheter because of benign hyperplasia of the prostate and who had been receiving hemodialysis twice a week due to endstage renal disease was admitted to our hospital complaining of three days of purple urine color (Figure 1). His medications included beta blocker, anti-aggregant, erythropoietin, piracetam and calcitriol therapies. A urin...

WHAT CONSTITUTES FETAL stress, and what are the implications of fetal stress in the course of fetal development? Thakor and Giussani (17) address a fundamental component of the fetal stress response: acidemia and it role as a modulator of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responsiveness to hypoxia. Fetal stress responsiveness has long been studied from the perspective of fetal survi...

Background. A consensus has not been reached on whether higher doses of parenteral amino acids improve growth in preterm infants without causing adverse side effects. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a more rapid increase in amino acids dosing in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants during their first few days of life. Methods. The study design was a 1:1 ratio case matc...

W e report on the cytogenetic and molecular charac-terisation of a constitutional de novo interstitial deletion of chromosome 22q12.1-q12.3 in a dysmor-phic girl. The deletion extends over approximately 8 Mb including the NF2 gene region. The corresponding deletion syndrome is characterised by severe developmental delay accompanied by multiple malformations at an age when clinical manifestation...

This paper describes a case study conducted within the domain of blood transfusion aiming at non-exhaustively extraction of candidate terms for an ontology of human blood. The process involved both the construction of a corpus and its automatic processing, and the retrieval of specialized terms. As our main result, we have obtained candidate medical terms to be used in a ontology of blood trans...

The action planning problem is known to be computationally hard in the general case. Propositional planning is Pspace-complete and rst-order planning is undecidable. Consequently, several methods to reduce the computational complexity of planning have been suggested in the literature. This thesis contributes to the advance and understanding of some of these methods. One proposed method is to id...