A Possible Case of Vertical Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a Newborn With Positive Placental In Situ Hybridization of SARS-CoV-2 RNA

Little is known about the effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on pregnant mothers and their infants. Moreover, there is no definitive evidence that SARS CoV- 2 can be vertically transmitted from an infected mother to the unborn fetus.

A case of tetrophthalmia with unilateral synophthalmia in an unborn fetus of blue shark Prionace glauca (Carcharhiniformes, Carcharhinidae)

This study describes and classifies a case of multiple malformations in an unborn blue shark Prionace glauca fetus, which was extracted from a gravid female captured during a research campaign addressed to the biological study of sharks in northern and central Chile. The analyzed specimen shows tetrophthalmia with unilateral synophthalmia, anomaly characterized by the existence of 4 ocular globes, two of which are partially fused. In addition, the axial skeleton of the fetus shows thoracic lordosis and helical torsion in the abdominal-caudal portion. This is the first world report of tetrophthalmia with unilateral synophthalmia in chondrichthyans.

Current concepts in migraine and their relevance to pregnancy

The prevalence of migraine in women of childbearing age is high, estimated at 24%. Migraine management during pregnancy and lactation can be challenging. Our understanding of the way in which medications affect the unborn fetus is still incomplete and the evidence is constantly changing with more recent emphasis on longitudinal studies and childhood development. The aim of this article is to describe the relationship between migraine and pregnancy and review the current evidence on treatment options in pregnancy and lactation.

“My Life had stood, a Loaded Gun”

Using Emily Dickinson’s well-known poem about ‘female self-portrait-as-male’ as a reference, this chapter examines issues of rage, gender prison, marriage and agency-via-writing. The entrapped Hedda and the play’s obsession with guns—ostensibly owned by General Gabler, flaunted and then suicidally used by Hedda—testifies to a displaced or even ‘stolen’ phallic power, now reconceived as rage. The notion of another male power, writing, is prophetically upended when Hedda burns Løvborg’s manuscript on the ‘History of the Future,’ calling it her ‘child,’: and ultimately also killing both herself and her unborn fetus. Hedda’s story is as much about ‘doing’ as it is about constraints, and so her experience and her acts become a genuine ‘history of the future’: how a caged woman breaks free. Hedda Gabler is thus literature as ideological utterance, bringing a culture’s arrangements to visibility in a way that so-called objective discourse—be it history or philosophy—cannot easily manage.

Genetic Counseling for Obstetricians

ABSTRACT Today many chromosomal defects can be suspected and diagnosed by the currently available biochemical testing and invasive tests analysis of chromosomes. It is necessary for the clinician to have a through knowledge of chromosomal defects so a proper genetic counseling can be done. This review article discusses the genetic counseling for the various defects which can occur in the unborn fetus.