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The exact mechanism of the causation of brachial plexus injury (BPI) has long been a matter of controversy. It is our opinion that the twisting and the extension of the fetal head, during the labour and delivery process, will increase the stretching of the neck, thus contributing to the labour forces as the cause of BPI. Our opinions are offered to other researchers and readers for their consideration of how the labour forces can cause BPI.
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Traumatismos del Nacimiento/etiología , Plexo Braquial/lesiones , Parto Obstétrico/efectos adversos , Cabeza , Humanos , Postura , Estrés MecánicoRESUMEN
The most important metabolic changes in pregnancy are facilitated anabolism when food is available and accelerated catabolism during fasting. In combination with the acquisition of haemochorial placenta, bipedalism and obligatory prematurity at birth these evolutionary choices have been the prerequisite conditions for the rapid growth of the fetal brain and its further postnatal development.
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Evolución Biológica , Encéfalo , Desarrollo Embrionario y Fetal , Animales , Encéfalo/embriología , Encéfalo/crecimiento & desarrollo , Metabolismo Energético , Ayuno , Femenino , Hominidae/fisiología , Humanos , Lactante , Recién Nacido , Recien Nacido Prematuro , Metabolismo de los Lípidos , Lípidos/sangre , Mortalidad Materna , Pan troglodytes/fisiología , Embarazo/sangre , Embarazo/metabolismo , Embarazo/fisiología , Complicaciones del EmbarazoRESUMEN
Thirty women (28 of childbearing age and 2 in the menopause), affected by acute Candida albicans vulvovaginitis were treated orally with a new antimycotic triazole derivative, itraconazole. Twenty patients were administered with 200 mg/die of itraconazole for three days. In tests carried out 7 and 30 days after the end of therapy the following results were observed. Negative cultures in 95% of patients and in 75% of patients; absence of leukorrhea in 60% of patients and in 65% of patients; disappearance of pruritus in 95% of patients and in 80% of patients. Ten patients were administered with an acute dose of itraconazole (400 mg). In the same tests, carried out 7 and 30 days after the end of therapy reported above the results were as follow. Negative culture in 80% and 60% of patients; absence of leukorrhea in 50% and 60% of patients; absence of pruritus in 70% and 50% of patients. In the first group of patients one case of slight nausea was reported whilst in the second group there were two cases of nausea, one of gastralgia and one of urticaria. No systemic side-effect was seen.