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Stroeken Y, Broekhuijsen K, Leyten E, Hermes W
… tube and endometrial pathology leading to subfertility and pregnancy loss. This case report describes a 34-year-old woman from Ivory Coast who was diagnosed with intrauterine tuberculosis after hysteroscopic evacuation of suspected retained placental tissue following an immature…
Kuupiel D, Tlou B, Bawontuo V, Mashamba-Thompson TP
…mentation. This study assessed the current accessibility of pregnancy-related point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests for maternal healthcare in rural primary healthcare (PHC) clinics in northern Ghana. Method We randomly selected 100 PHC clinics providing maternal healthcare from a…
Felix Bongomin, Phillip Ssekamatte, Ronald Olum, Diana Sitenda, Davis Kibirige, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Pregnancy modulates immune responses against() infection. Cytokines, including interleukin-2 (IL-2), play a crucial role incontainment, mainly by inducing the proliferation of T cells. However, the role of IL-2 in latent tuberculosis (TB) infection (LTBI) screenin…
McLaughlin SE, Vora SB, Church EC, Spitters C, Thyer A, et al.
Objective To report 2 cases of adverse pregnancy outcomes due to delayed diagnosis of urogenital tuberculosis and propose a screening algorithm for patients from tuberculosis-endemic countries. Design Case report. Setting Academic medical center. Patients Two patients with delaye…
Waleed Razzaq Chaudhry, Sana Altaf, Cara Mohammed, Sofia Fuerte
Tuberculosis (TB) during pregnancy can cause certain deleterious effects to both the mother and the fetus, leading to significant morbidity and mortality. The risk of TB rises significantly during pregnancy due to dampening of the immune response in females and certain factors ye…
Srivastava S, Raj A, Agarwal R, Bhosale S, Marathe N
…is of the spine causing paraplegia in the 2 nd trimester of pregnancy is rare and poses significant management dilemmas. Pregnancy, a relatively immunocompromised state with high hormonal levels, may prompt rapid TB destruction of a vertebral body resulting in an acute/ profound …
Yadav A, Singh A, Aggarwal K
Acute paraplegia in pregnancy is uncommon but can result from pathology including Guillain-Barre syndrome, acute transverse myelitis, and spinal tuberculosis, also known as Pott's disease of the spine. India has a high incidence of tuberculosis (2.8 million cases annually) theref…
Qi Nie, Yuan Liu, Fan Xiao, Yong Zhou, Tingting Fu, et al.
…extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (pre-XDR-TB) during pregnancy poses a formidable clinical challenge, particularly when complicated by tuberculous meningoencephalomyelitis (TBMEM), While the WHO operational handbook provides a general framework for drug-resistant TB, robus…
Afsana Rahman Maliha, Md Mostakim Billah, Md Mortuza Arafin, Ibrahim Khalil, Tahseen Tabassum
Spinal tuberculosis (Pott's disease) during pregnancy is rare and poses diagnostic challenges due to overlapping symptoms with pregnancy-related changes, potentially leading to severe neurological deficits if untreated. We report an 18-year-old primigravida at 32 weeks gestation …
Sujithra Devi R, Priya S, Kumari M, Ramkumar G, Jinkala S, et al.
…prevalence of tuberculosis. This is rarely diagnosed during pregnancy. The presentation can mimic other etiologies such as eclampsia or cerebral venous sinus thrombosis so the diagnosis can be challenging, particularly when presenting with seizures in pregnancy. Described here is…
Zhuang L, Wang XY, Sang Y, Xu J, He XL
Background Acute urinary retention (AUR) is rare during pregnancy. Case summary We report on three pregnant women with AUR between the 10 th and 18 th wk of gestation. Case 1 was first diagnosed as urinary tract infection and developed a urinary tract infection due to urinary ret…
Morton AJ, Roddy Mitchell A, Melville RE, Hui L, Tong SYC, et al.
Pregnancy may be associated with risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) in those infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The perinatal period could provide opportunities for targeted screening and treatment. This study aims to synthesise published literature on Mtb infectio…
Tiago Lima, Sandra Trigo, Eduarda Silveira, Gabriela Jorge da Silva, Sara Domingues
…isease. First-line anti-TB drugs are considered safe during pregnancy and lactation. In contrast, second-line drugs have a less well-established safety profile during breastfeeding, and the available evidence regarding their excretion in breast milk remains limited; therefore, th…
William M. Hague, Leonie Callaway, Jennifer Chambers, Lucy C. Chappell, Suzette Coat, et al.
… (less than 34 weeks gestation) intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) affects 0.1% of pregnant women in Australia and is associated with a 3-fold increased risk of stillbirth, fetal hypoxia and compromise, spontaneous preterm birth, as well as increased frequencies of pre-e…
Grace Montepiedra, Lisa Aaron, Gerhard Theron, Katie McCarthy, Sarah Bradford, et al.
…eeks of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) initiated during pregnancy (immediate IPT) versus deferring to week 12 postpartum (deferred IPT) in people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy, showed higher than expected hepatotoxicity. We investigated the potential roles of antiretrovi…
Xu Bo, C Brown, A Aboda, B McCully
…ever, be a rarely considered cause of infertility and early pregnancy failure. We report the case of a 19-year-old migrant woman living in regional Australia who presented with ectopic pregnancy following prior treatment for genital tuberculosis. We highlight the vulnerability of…
Kian Fan Chung, qingling Zhang, Jiaxing Xie, Ian M. Adcock, Nazanin Zounemat Kermani, et al.
Serum pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPPA) as a predictor of eosinophilic Type-2 high asthmaTo the Editor,Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A (PAPPA), a metalloproteinase that cleaves insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-binding proteins (IGFBPs) to increase IGF availabili…
Rahmawati A, Judistiani RTD, Setiawati DA, Fajri R, Putri S, et al.
…rious health problem in pregnant women. Tuberculosis during pregnancy is related to poor perinatal outcomes, including low birth weight, insufficient growth relative to gestational age, perinatal mortality, and maternal morbidity and mortality. Additionally, diabetes mellitus in …
khadija miftah, N. Zaghba, Hanane Benjelloun, Khadija Chaanoun, Hanaa Harraz, et al.
… study of 27 cases of pleural tuberculosis diagnosed during pregnancy, collected at the respiratory diseases department of CHU Ibn Rochd, Casablanca. <bold>Results:</bold> The median age was 29 years, with a mean interval of 3 months before consultation. Chest pain, dry cough, dy…
Shaifali Patil, Soumya Jhawar
… of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculous peritonitis in pregnancy is a diagnostic challenge, especially in the absence of lung involvement. We report a case of peritoneal tuberculosis in a 32-Year-old female, a G2A1 with 30 weeks’ gestation came with chief complaint of profus…
Lindsay H. Cameron, Jeffrey R. Starke
…able age. Although treatment of tuberculosis disease during pregnancy is unquestioned, the treatment of the pregnant woman who has an asymptomatic tuberculosis infection is more controversial. As pregnancy seem to increase the risk of a woman progressing from infection to disease…
С. В. Гопоняко, Irina Buynevich, Д. Ю. Рузанов
…d PDR in women with lung tuberculosis (TB) diagnosed during pregnancy, after delivery and following 3 years in Gomel region in 2013-2019 and counted percentage of TB cases with different PDR with 95% CI. We investigated all new cases of TB with bacteriological confirmation (n=54,…
Ju Zou, Jie Li, Chen Chen, Ruochan Chen
…rd of annual deaths. Moreover, untimely TB treatment during pregnancy increases the risk of perinatal complications and poor fetal prognosis. Recently, there has been widespread use of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET). However, its clinical characteristics and …
Simon Finch, Amelia Shoemark, AJ Dicker, HR Keir, Alexandria Smith, et al.
<h3>Introduction</h3> Pregnancy zone protein (PZP) is a broad spectrum immunosuppressive protein originally discovered in the serum during pregnancy and believed to prevent foetal rejection. We unexpectedly identified PZP as highly expressed in sputum from patients with bronchiec…
U.N Jindal, S Kumar
Abstract Study question Is cumulative clinical pregnancy rate (CPR) and live birth rate (LBR) in infertile patients with treated genital tuberculosis similar to other infertility etiologies undergoing IVF? Summary answer There is no significant difference in cumulative CPR and LB…