These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [AIDS and pregnancy].
    Author: Arredondo García JL, Hernández Trejo M, Figueroa Damián R, Ortiz Ibarra FJ, Ahued Ahued JR.
    Journal: Ginecol Obstet Mex; 1998 Jan; 66():8-12. PubMed ID: 9528214.
    Abstract:
    Near 70 per cent of Mexican women infected by the Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are between 15 and 44 years old, in this women sexual transmission are the most frequent route of infection. The objective of this article was to describe the obstetric course and perinatal repercussion of the HIV-Positive pregnant women with medical care at the Instituto Nacional de Perinatología, Mexico city between January 1994 to December 1996. Nineteen women were studied, sexual transmission was the route of infection in 16 of them. One had diagnostic criteria for AIDS, the others 18 had HIV asymptomatic infection. At delivery 18 a term products were born. The mean of the newborn weight was 3159 g. At moment of this report 4 children (22%) have been diagnosed as HIV infected, all of them dead during their first year of life.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]