Browsing by Subject "Pregnant woman"
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Antiretrovirals for HIV exposure prophylaxis
(2012)Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains a global public health problem. Although the epidemic has not been completely controlled, there was considerable progress in HIV prevention and treatment during the ...
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Artificial neural networks for non-invasive chromosomal abnormality screening of fetuses
(2010)A large number of different neural network structures have been constructed, trained and tested to a large data base of pregnant women characteristics, aiming at generating a classifier-predictor for the presence of ...
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Artificial neural networks to investigate the significance of PAPPA and b-hCG for the prediction of chromosomal abnormalities
(2011)A systematic approach has been done, to investigate different neural network structures for the appraisal of the significance of the free b-human chorionic gonadotrophin (b-hCG) and the pregnancy associated plasma protein-A ...
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Cancer and pregnancy: A comprehensive review
(2011)Background: Pregnancy complicated by cancer is relatively rare but, as women in western societies tend to delay childbearing to the third and fourth decade of life, this phenomenon is going to be encountered more often in ...
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Cancer and pregnancy: What should we know about the management with systemic treatment of pregnant women with cancer?
(2011)The incidence of cancer during pregnancy is a rare phenomenon and is estimated to occur in 1:1000 pregnancies. This co-existence is likely to rise since the delay of childbearing to the later reproductive age is nowadays ...
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Cancer of unknown primary during pregnancy: An exceptionally rare coexistence
(2015)Background: Cancer in pregnancy is a rare disease with breast cancer, cervical cancer, melanoma and Hodgkin's disease to be the most commonly diagnosed malignancies during gestation. Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a ...
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Ethnicity as a factor for the estimation of the risk for preeclampsia: A neural network approach
(2010)A large number of feedforward neural structures, both standard multilayer and multi-slab schemes have been applied to a large data base of pregnant women, aiming at generating a predictor for the risk of preeclampsia ...
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Lung cancer in pregnancy: Report of nine cases from an international collaborative study
(2013)Objective: Lung cancer is an uncommon diagnosis during pregnancy. The combination of smoking in young women, increased maternal age during pregnancy, and increasing incidence of lung cancer worldwide may cause an increase ...
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Lung cancer in the pregnant woman: To treat or not to treat, that is the question
(2010)Lung cancer in pregnancy is a rare situation; however, it is increasingly reported in the past two decades. The association might be more encountered in the coming years due to the rising trends of cigarette smoking among ...
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Neural networks to estimate the influence of cervix length on the prediction of spontaneous preterm delivery before 37 weeks
(2008)Neural networks were applied in an effort to predict the risk for early spontaneous preterm delivery using various demographic, clinical, and laboratory inputs. Furthermore, attention has been focused on the influence of ...
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Neural networks to estimate the risk for preeclampsia occurrence
(2009)A number of neural network schemes have been applied to a large data base of pregnant women, aiming at generating a predictor for the estimation of the risk of occurrence of preeclampsia at an early stage. The database was ...
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Neural networks to investigate the effects of smoking and alcohol abuse on the risk for preeclampsia
(2009)Following the application of a large number of neural network schemes that have been applied to a large data base of pregnant women, aiming at generating a predictor for the risk of preeclampsia occurrence at an early ...
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A pregnant patient with adrenocortical carcinoma: Case report
(2012)Background: Coexistence of an adrenocortical carcinoma and pregnancy is extremely rare with only 25 described cases so far, and has a poor prognosis. Case Report: We report the case of a 28-year-old patient with adrenocortical ...