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Effectiveness of intravenous iron sucrose over oral iron therapy for anaemia in pregnancy
Get PDFBackground: Anaemia in pregnancy is very common throughout our country impacting both mother and the newborn. The most common cause of anaemia in pregnancy is iron deficiency. The increased prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia amongst the pregnant women, especially in developing countries is a major cause of significant maternal morbidity and mortality. Intolerance to oral iron, inadequate absorption, and side effects leading to poor compliance are the major shortcomings in oral iron therapy. These factors are significant especially in anaemia near term. To overcome all these limiting factors associated with oral iron therapy, parenteral iron therapy is preferred. Aim of this study was to study effectiveness of intravenous iron sucrose over oral iron therapy for anaemia in pregnancy.Methods: This prospective study was taken up to compare the effectiveness of intravenous iron sucrose over oral iron therapy for anaemia in 30 antenatal women attending antenatal outpatient Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology belonging to gestational age group of 28-34 weeks with anaemia in pregnancy.Results: Majority of pregnant women belonged to age group of 22-25 years.67% were primigravidas. The period of gestation varied from 28-34 weeks. In this study, the mean baseline haemoglobin was 8.4 g/dl before start of treatment and after iv iron sucrose treatment haemoglobin showed a mean value of 10.8g/dl. The mean baseline MCV was 70 fl/cell. Post treatment MCV after 4 weeks showed a significant mean rise of 12 fl/cell in the present study with no major side effects.Conclusions: Intravenous iron sucrose is highly effective over oral iron therapy for anaemia in pregnancy. It enables rapid correction of anaemia with minimal side effects.</jats:p
The effects of food habits on pregnancy outcome
Get PDFBackground: Nutrition during pregnancy plays an important role for an optimum outcome of pregnancy. Maternal undernutrition can lead to poor intrauterine growth and low weight of the baby at birth. Moreover, the leading causes for maternal deaths like hemorrhage and infection are related directly or indirectly to nutrition. The aim of this study was to study the effects of food habits on pregnancy outcome.Methods: 350 women from the antenatal clinic, who satisfied the criteria were admitted to the study.Results: The majority of pregnant women belonged to the age group of 21-25 years (47%) followed by the 26-30 years age group (40%) and 83% belonged to the low socioeconomic class. Majority of the babies (66%) had the birth weight in the range of 2.5-2.9 kg. There was a significant association (p value <0.05) between the socioeconomic status of the mother, parity and her calorie intake. The present study found a statistically significant association between the maternal nutritional status, the birth weight of the baby and the need for NICU admission (p value <0.05).Conclusions: Maternal food habits have significant effects on the pregnancy outcome.</jats:p
Mifepristone-misoprostol combination in medical termination of early pregnancy
Get PDFBackground: Unplanned and unwanted pregnancies are common worldwide despite of the medical advancements and wider availability of contraceptive methods. The development of safe, effective, inexpensive, nonsurgical methods of abortion is thus highly desirable. Objective of present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Mifepristone 200 mg orally followed by Misoprostol 800 µg intravaginally 48 hours later in women undergoing medical termination of early pregnancy (up to 63 days of gestational age).Methods: The present study included 100 pregnant women requesting termination of pregnancy in first trimester attending the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Women with gestational age up to 63 days from the first day of the last menstrual period with previous regular cycles were studied. Patients without medical or surgical contraindications to Mifepristone and Misoprostol were included.Results: Majority of the pregnant women belonged to the age group between 20-30 years. 30% of these women were nulliparous and 70 % were multiparous. The period of gestation varied from 35-63 days.90% of the patients had complete abortion and 10% had incomplete abortion. All the patients expelled the products of conception within 24 hours of prostaglandin administration. The adverse effects reported were nausea reported by 30%, vomiting by 5 %and diarrhea by 2% of the cases. None of the patients reported excess bleeding at the time of abortion, hospitalization or blood transfusion. This regimen has the effectiveness of complete abortion rate with few side effects.Conclusions: The Mifepristone- Misoprostol combination offers an effective, acceptable, out-patient procedure and an alternative to surgical methods of abortion in medical termination of early pregnancy (up to 63 days of gestation).</jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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