Prolonged hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) can increase your risk of developing thrombosis ...

A study conducted at the Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine (Redoxoma) helps understand how high blood ...

USA: Recent research has revealed that vitamin C supplementation can significantly improve placental function and alter gene ...

Direct fetal therapy includes ultrasound-guided percutaneous umbilical cord sampling to determine the level of fetal anaemia ...

The use of umbilical arterial catheters (UACs) has been a standard of practice for 30 years in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). [1] They have proven useful for continuous blood pressure ...

Tammy P. McConnell, MSN, RN; Connie W. Lee, EdD, ARNP, IBCLC; Mary Couillard, PhD, RN, CS, FNP; Windsor Westbrook Sherrill, PhD, MBA, MHA ...

The giant umbilical cord is a rare malformation of the umbilical cord that can easily be diagnosed on prenatal scans and is unmistakable postnatally. We report a case to highlight issues of this rare ...

Running from the top of the foot (dorsum) and up the inner sides of the leg, the great saphenous vein is the body’s longest vein. The vein’s primary task is to drain deoxygenated blood from the foot, ...

The portal vein, or hepatic portal vein, is the main blood vessel of the portal venous system (PVS), which delivers blood to the liver from the stomach, intestines, spleen, gallbladder, and pancreas.