Juan Pedro Kusanovic

TL;DR: This article developed an algorithm that allows the simultaneous visualization of the standard planes for fetal echocardiography including the four-chamber view, three-vessel view, left outflow tract and short axis, in most fetuses without CHDs.

TL;DR: Aquaporin 9 mRNA expression is higher in the fetal membranes from patients with spontaneous term labor and those with preterm prelabor rupture of membranes and histologic chorioamnionitis, suggesting a role for aquaporin9 in membrane-mediated transfer of nutrients to support the increased metabolic demands associated with the host immune response of the terminal pathway of parturition.

TL;DR: Maternal plasma concentration of the pro‐inflammatory adipokine pre‐B‐cell‐enhancing factor (PBEF)/visfatin is elevated in pregnant patients with acute pyelonephritis.

TL;DR: In contrast to what has been reported in preeclampsia, acute pyel onephritis during pregnancy is associated with lower maternal plasma RBP4 concentrations than in normal pregnancy, suggesting that the acute maternal inflammatory process associated with pyelonephritis is fundamentally different from that of the chronic systemic inflammatory process suggested in preeClampsia.

TL;DR: A case of truncus arteriosus diagnosed in utero where the multiplanar display modality provided important insight into the differential diagnosis of this conotruncal anomaly is reported.