A double blind randomized clinical trial was done at Dr. Sardjito General Hospital, Yogyakarta, to evaluate the effect of adenosin triphosphate (ATP) in reducing duration of fist stage of labour and incidence of complicated labour. The subjects of the study were 100 normal parturients fulfilling the inclusions criteria of 20 to 30 years of age, parity less than 4, gestational age of 38 to 42 we…
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a disorder of recurrent vascular thrombosis, pregnancy losses and thrombocytopenia associated with persistently elevated levels of antiphospholipid antibodies (APA). Many patients with APS have clinical and laboratory features found in other autoimmune diseases, particulary SLE. Such patients should be defined as having a 'secondary' APS to distinguish them fr…
Simple glaucomas are characterized by an elevated intra acular pressure (IOP) and, are an important cause of blindness in the world. The blindness is due to the optic nerve atrophy and is found more frequently in women. It has been reported that high activity of G6PD isozyme can reduce the ocular pressure in the calf eyes. The activity of G6PD isozyme in the blood of simple glaucoma patients ha…
Hypoxia exposed trophoblast cells will cause apoptotic process, that correlate with up-regulation of p53 and Bax protein expression; and down-regulation of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2; also find both on trophoblastic sample from preeclampsial eclampsia complicated pregnancy, and normal pregnancy. The aim of this study is, to prove that the amount of apoptotic trophoblast cells on trophoblast tissue sa…