“Near Miss” Obstetric Events and Maternal Deaths in a Tertiary Care Hospital: An Audit by Roopa PS, Shailja Verma, Lavanya Rai, Pratap Kumar, Murlidhar V. Pai, Jyothi Shetty

“…Conclusion. Hemorrhage and hypertensive disorders are the leading causes of near miss events. …”
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Risk Factors Related to Low Birth Weight in Cienfuegos Municipality by Juan Rafael Zerquera Rodriguez, Yusimi Cabada Martínez, Delia Zerquera Rodríguez, Hilda María María Delgado Acosta

“…The 70.1 % were smokers and the 57, 1 % developed a gravidum hypertensive disease. <br /><strong>Conclusions:</strong> the most associated factors to low birth weight were, the mother’s habit to smoke, as well as the diseases that affected them during pregnancy, fundamentally the hypertensive disease and the vaginal sepsis.…”
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Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes in Teenage Versus Adult Pregnancies – A Prospective Comparative Study by Prathima S, Sarojini -, Ashakiran T R, Manasa K, Bhanu BT

“…The occurrence of anaemia 6 hypertensive disorders 17.25 low birth weight 30.26 NICU admissions 24 and perinatal deaths 2.5 was greater in teenage group P value-lt0.0001. …”
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Acute Myocardial Infarction in Puerperium Stage. A Case Presentation by Teresa Oliva Rivero, Israel Sotolongo Castro, Maria Victoria Jó Díaz

“…<p>A 38 year-old hypertensive, smoker female patient was presented. She suferred from an acute myocardial infarction in the mediate puerperium stage of an normal deliver. …”
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A Reduction in ADAM17 Expression Is Involved in the Protective Effect of the PPAR-α Activator Fenofibrate on Pressure Overload-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy by Si-Yu Zeng, Hui-Qin Lu, Qiu-Jiang Yan, Jian Zou

“…Abdominal artery constriction- (AAC-) induced hypertensive rats were used to observe the effects of fenofibrate on cardiac hypertrophy and ADAM17 expression. …”
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Ahmed Glaucoma Valve Implantation for Refractory Glaucoma in a Tertiary Hospital in Brazil by Ricardo Yuji Abe, Carla Melo Tavares, Rui Barroso Schimiti, José Paulo Cabral Vasconcellos, Vital Paulino Costa

“…African American ancestry and early hypertensive phase were associated with increased risk of failure.…”
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Z-Control on COVID-19-Exposed Patients in Quarantine by Nita H. Shah, Nisha Sheoran, Ekta Jayswal

“…In this paper, a mathematical model for diabetic or hypertensive patients exposed to COVID-19 is formulated along with a set of first-order nonlinear differential equations. …”
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Malignant Range Elevation of Serum Chromogranin A due to Inadvertent Use of Proton Pump Inhibitor in a Subject with Pancreatic Incidentaloma by Usman Hammawa Malabu, Rozemary Karamatic, Gillian Mahy, Kunwarjit Singh Sangla

“…We present a case of highly elevated tenfold rise of serum chromogranin A in a young, morbidly obese, hypertensive female being investigated for pancreatic mass, weight loss, and elevated ESR. …”
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Isolated Left Bundle Branch Block in a Toddler by Hitesh Agrawal, Frank Zimmerman, Zahra Naheed

“…Left bundle branch block (LBBB) usually occurs as a postoperative complication from surgical correction of congenital heart disease and can be associated with hypertensive heart disease, coronary artery disease, myocarditis, and aortic valvular disease. …”
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Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors versus that of angiotensin receptor blockers on survival in patients undergoing hemodialysis: a nationwide observational cohort s... by Seok Hui Kang, Gui Ok Kim, Bo Yeon Kim, Eun Jung Son, Jun Young Do

“…The patients were classified into four groups based on the use of renin-angiotensin system blockers (RASBs) as follows: No group, patients without a prescription of any anti-hypertensive drugs including RASBs; Other group, patients with a prescription of anti-hypertensive drugs excluding RASBs; ACEI group, patients with a prescription of an ACEI; and ARB group, patients with a prescription of an ARB.Results The 5-year survival rates in the no, other, ACEI, and ARB groups were 68.6%, 67.8%, 70.6%, and 69.2%, respectively. …”
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Investigating the prevalence and associated factors of elevated liver enzymes and dyslipidemia during pregnancy by Ananya Dutta Mou, Nurshad Ali

“…On the other hand, advanced maternal age, high gravidity, and mixed dyslipidemia were associated with elevated GGT levels. Conversely, age, hypertensive disorders during pregnancy, preeclampsia, and diabetes were associated with dyslipidemia. …”
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Pulmonary mucormycosis in kidney transplant patient by Mona Jha, Shailly Deshawar, Nikhil Kirar, Manas Kamal Sen

“…Here, we present a case of pulmonary mucormycosis in a diabetic and hypertensive patient who had a renal transplant and presented with cough, hemoptysis, and shortness of breath. …”
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Spontaneous Rupture of Renal Cell Carcinoma in Pregnancy: A Case Report by Mohamed Zakieldahshoury, Hassaan A. Gad, Salah Ahmed

“…We report a rare case with spontaneous rupture of renal cell carcinoma in 20 years old in full-term pregnancy primigravida presented by hypertensive disorder and severe abdominal pain with massive retro peritoneum collection, radical nephrectomy was done and the patient life was saved. …”
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An Undiagnosed Paraganglioma in a 58-Year-Old Female Who Underwent Tumor Resection by William C. Fox, Matthew Read, Richard E. Moon, Eugene W. Moretti, Brian J. Colin

“…The patient became severely hypertensive intraoperatively with paroxysmal swings in blood pressure and then later became acutely hypotensive after tumor removal. …”
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Pneumomediastinum as a Manifestation of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis by Ahmed Alhazmi, Mohamed Moulaye Cheikh, Rola Yousef Hassan

“…A 38-year-old hypertensive male with a smoking history presented to the emergency room with significant hemoptysis, arthritis, and a purpuric rash. …”
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Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by Emeka B. Kesieme, Browne C. Okonkwo, Peter O. Okokhere, Georgi Prisadov, Eghosa Aigbe, Christopher Affusim

“…We present a 53-year-old Nigerian, known hypertensive diabetic woman with background ischaemic heart disease who presented with postcoital haemoptysis of one-year duration. …”
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Early and Midterm Outcome of Surgical Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection by Sandy Adel, Karam Mosallam Eisa, Mohamed Adel Elgamal, Asmaa Gaber Rizk

“…Mortality occurred in 9 (33.33%) patients due to cardiac arrest during anesthesia induction in 1 (3.7%) patient, sepsis in 2 (7.41%) patients, LCOP in 4 (14.81%) patients and pulmonary hypertensive crisis in 2 (7.41%) patients. Postoperative complications were pneumothorax in 2 (7.41%) patients, pulmonary edema in 1 (3.7%) patient, re-intubation in 2 (7.41%) patients, pneumonia in 1 (3.7%) patient, fits in 2 (7.41%) patients, thrombocytopenia in 1 (3.7%) patient, bleeding from ETT in 1 (3.7%) patient, LCOP in 5 (18.52%) patients, pulmonary hypertensive crisis in 3 (11.11%) patients, cardiac arrest in 1 (3.7%) patient, renal failure in 1 (3.7%) patient and no complication in 14 (51.85%) patients. …”
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Polytrauma and continue epidural anesthesia. A case presentation. by Roberto Travieso Peña, José Julio Ojeda González, Aleida Hernández Lara

“…This is a 62 year-old hypertensive patient who was admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the ¨Dr. …”
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Acute Aortic Occlusion Presenting as Flaccid Paraplegia by Ayman Kilany, Jasem Y. Al-Hashel, Azza Rady

“…A 67-year-old male known to be hypertensive and diabetic had a sudden onset of severe low back pain and flaccid paraplegia with no sensory level or bladder affection and the distal pulsations were felt. …”
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Impact of duration of treatments with metformin and sulfonylureas, individually or in combination, on diabetic retinopathy among newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic patients: a pooled... by Mansour Bahardoust, Yadollah Mehrabi, Farzad Hadaegh, Davood Khalili, Ali Delpisheh

“…The cumulative exposure to metformin, SUs, aspirin, statin, and anti-hypertensive medication was also determined using the same approach. …”
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