Article history: Received 5 September 2015 Received in revised form 14 January 2016 Accepted 14 January 2016 Available online 18 January 2016 In this study, we examined the extent and type of contact with birth family in adoptive families headed by sexual minority and heterosexual parents prior to or at the time of placement, following placement, and currently. Data were drawn from the Modern A...

Female-headed families comprise a larger proportion of the poor than they did the preceding year; the observer concludes that female-headed families are worse off. Blacks consistently make up the overwhelming majority of freshmen disqualified from participation in intercollegiate athletics by Proposition 48, the academic requirement introduced by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to ...

INTRODUCTION Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is a vaccine-preventable disease. The most severe complication in children is fulminant hepatic failure (FHF), estimated to occur in 0.4% of cases; patients with FHF often require a liver transplant (LT). Following another outbreak of HAV infection in Argentina during 2003-2004, a one-dose HAV universal immunization (UI) program was started in 2005...

OBJECTIVES Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the predominant cause of water-borne epidemics, sporadic acute viral hepatitis (AVH) in adults and fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) among pregnant women and other adults in India. This preliminary study was designed to examine the association of viral load and certain host immune responses with uneventful recovery or progression to FHF. METHODS Viral load,...

To clarify the nature of nitrogen metabolism between branched chain amino acid (BCAA) and glutamine (Gln) in liver failure, we measured arterial plasma concentrations of Gln and 15N uptake to amino-N and amide-N of Gln in normal and D-galactosamine-induced fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) rats after 15N-leucine (Leu) injection. Fifteen, 30 and 60 min after Leu injection, the arterial plasma conc...

OBJECTIVE To examine the experience of contact among families who share the same sperm donor and the purpose served by contact. DESIGN Study 1: retrospective survey; study 2: archival data analysis. SETTING Donor insemination (DI) program. PATIENT(S) Study 1: 14 parents from the first cohort of matched families; study 2: Archival data about 515 families from the DI program. INTERVENTION...

UNLABELLED The clinical course of patients with fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is often worsened by the presence of cerebral edema and endocranial hypertension. In spite of the multiple studies using Transcranial Doppler Sonography (TCDS), few have shown the cerebral blood flow (CBF) pattern among patients with encephalopathy resulting from FHF. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to characterize th...

BACKGROUND The role of the recently discovered GB virus C (GBV-C)/hepatitis G virus in fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) has been debated. Although GBV-C RNA has been detected in many cases of FHF, recent data suggest that the relation between GBV-C and FHF may be accidental. AIMS To retrospectively investigate the possible relation between the presence of GBV-C markers (RNA or antibodies to th...

Patients with FHF have a high risk of cerebral edema and intracranial hypertension. The pathophysiological background for this phenomenon is not completely settled, but alteration in CBF as well as cerebral metabolism seems to be of importance. Mechanical hyperventilation has a prompt effect on intracranial pressure. This effect is assumed to be caused by the hypocapnia induced alkalosis which ...

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