Pregnancy in liver transplant recipients: course and outcome in 19 cases

Article Abstract:

Pregnancy in liver transplant recipients can be successful but should be carefully planned and monitored. As the number of liver transplants increases and the long term survival associated with liver transplantation improves, more female recipients are becoming pregnant. Of 19 pregnant liver transplant recipients, 11 successfully gave birth, four spontaneously miscarried, three had therapeutic abortions and one was still pregnant. All eleven newborn infants were healthy. Two of the three women who had therapeutic abortions had abnormal liver function. Three of the women who successfully gave birth developed severe high blood pressure during the pregnancy. Pregnancy did not appear to increase the risk of organ rejection, and the immunosuppressive drugs that the mothers took did not adversely affect the infants.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation, Pregnancy, Complications of, Pregnancy complications

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Ruptured tubal ectopic pregnancy: risk factors and reproductive outcome: results of a population-based study in France

Article Abstract:

A ruptured tubal pregnancy does not appear to adversely affect fertility. Tubal pregnancy occurs when the fertilized embryo remains in the Fallopian tubes instead of moving into the uterus as it normally should. In a study of 849 women with a tubal pregnancy, 18% experienced tubal rupture. A history of damage to the Fallopian tubes, induction of ovulation, a high level of beta-human chorionic gonadotropin, and no history of contraceptive use were the principle risk factors for tubal rupture. Many of the women went on to have a normal pregnancy in the future.

Risk factors, Pregnancy, Ectopic

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Female and male human embryo growth rates are similar before the eight-cell stage

Article Abstract:

There appears to be no difference in growth rates between male and female human embryos before the eight-cell stage. Researchers analyzed the proportion of male and female embryos at various stages of growth immediately before the embryos were transplanted into the uterus during 142 in vitro fertilization procedures. About forty-five percent of the embryos were female and 55% were male regardless of whether they had three or fewer cells, four cells or five or more cells.

Analysis, Growth, Human embryo, Sex differences

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