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Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth or miscarriage. [1] Signs and symptoms usually include a fever greater than 38.0 °C (100.4 °F), chills, lower abdominal pain, and possibly bad-smelling vaginal discharge . [ 1 ]
The male infertility crisis is an increase in male infertility since the mid-1970s. [91] The issue attracted media attention after a 2017 meta-analysis found that sperm counts in Western countries had declined by 52.4 percent between 1973 and 2011.
Examining The Fertility Question. While births among middle-aged women are on the rise, the statistics paint only a partial picture of pregnancy at 40 (and beyond).
The 18-year-old went to the emergency room three times with severe symptoms, and doctors had to “confirm fetal demise” before intervening She died hours later in the intensive care unit
After a few days, Mora noticed Christie fluttered her eyes and seemed as if she heard people talking around her. These signs gave him hope. After she was weaned off the breathing machine and ECMO ...
Adrenal crisis, also known as Addisonian crisis or acute adrenal insufficiency, is a life-threatening complication of adrenal insufficiency. Hypotension, and hypovolemic shock, are the main symptoms of an adrenal crisis. Other symptoms include weakness, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, fever, fatigue, abnormal electrolytes, confusion, and coma.
Homocystinuria (HCU) [2] is an inherited disorder of the metabolism of the amino acid methionine due to a deficiency of cystathionine beta synthase or methionine synthase. [3] It is an inherited autosomal recessive trait , which means a child needs to inherit a copy of the defective gene from both parents to be affected.
Vitamin A deficiency is the most common cause of blindness in developing countries. The WHO estimated in 1995 that 13.8 million children had some degree of visual loss related to VAD. [ 11 ] Night blindness and its worsened condition, xerophthalmia , are markers of Vitamin A deficiency; collections of keratin in the conjunctiva , known as Bitot ...