Objectives. To compare current criteria for severe fetal anemia diagnosis. Methodology. A cohort study analyzed 105 alloimmunized fetuses that underwent cordocentesis due to risk of anemia. Concordance among the diagnostic criteria for severe fetal anemia, hemoglobin deficit >7 g/dL, hemoglobin deficit ≥5 g/dL, and hemoglobin concentration <0.55 MoM, was analyzed using Cohen's Kappa index. Peri...

Résultats : La littérature publiée a été récupérée par l’intermédiaire de recherches menées dans Medline, CINAHL et The Cochrane Library au moyen d’un vocabulaire contrôlé (p. ex. « amniocentesis », « chorionic villus sampling », « cordocentesis », « fetal and neonatal infection ») et de mots clés (p. ex. « hepatitis B », « hepatitis C », « HIV ») appropriés. Les résultats ont été restreints au...

Background. Elevated middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity (MCA-PSV) has been reported in nonanemic fetuses following fetal transfusion, and has been attributed to a major population of red blood cells (RBCs) with an adult mean corpuscular volume (MCV) in the fetal circulation. Reported here is an analogous case of elevated MCA-PSV with a normal fetal hematocrit and relative fetal micro...

Introduction Fetal exsanguination is a rare complication of cordocentesis. Successful correction of fetal thrombocytopenia is essential for the reduction of risks. Case Report A 25-year-old, gravida 3, P2-0-0-0-2, was referred at 27 weeks of gestation for evaluation of newly diagnosed nonimmune hydrops secondary to parvovirus infection. Despite the use of ancillary platelet transfusions to corr...

Of all control related problems within industry, those of sequential character are particularly common. Almost all industrial plants contain sequential parts; startup or shutdown phases are typical examples of this. Despite its importance fairly little theoretical research has been devoted to this problem. We study a subclass of sequential control problems, which we call the SAS-PUBS class. For...

The purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS) i.e. purple discolouration of urine, is an uncommon and alarming condition in patients with long term urinary catheterisation. Though the condition is benign, it should draw immediate attention to the possibility of an underlying urinary tract infection. The postulated hypothesis for this unusual event is probably a chemical reaction involving tryptophan fro...

The variance-based Sobol' approach is one of the few global sensitivity analysis methods that is suitable for complex models with spatially distributed inputs. Yet it needs a large number of model runs to compute sensitivity indices: in the case of models where some inputs are 2D Gaussian random fields, it is of great importance to generate a relatively small set of map realizations capturing m...

OBJECTIVE The diagnosis of fetal hypothyroidism is based at present on measurements of TSH and free thyroxine (FT4) in fetal blood samples obtained by cordocentesis. The measurement of maternal serum and urinary concentrations of compound W, immunologically similar to but chromatographically distinct from diiodothyronine sulfate (T2S), has been advocated as a new possible marker for fetal hypot...

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the success and reliability QF-PCR analysis in detecting chromosomal abnormalities determine its advantages limitations. Methods: Patients who underwent karyotype as a prenatal invasive diagnostic test tertiary center were retrospectively analyzed. Invasive genetic indications, ultrasonographic fetal screening reports, results patients obtaine...