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Successful Treatment Of A Cervical Ectopic Pregnancy With Single-Dose Methotrexate Therapy, Hannah Dearworth, Jesse Cottrell Jul 2020

Successful Treatment Of A Cervical Ectopic Pregnancy With Single-Dose Methotrexate Therapy, Hannah Dearworth, Jesse Cottrell

Marshall Journal of Medicine

Ectopic pregnancies implanted in the cervix account for less than 1 percent of all extra-uterine pregnancies. Due to the limited incidence of cervical ectopic pregnancies, there are no established guidelines for medical versus surgical management. We report a case of a cervical ectopic pregnancy with a fetal heartbeat successfully treated with single dose methotrexate therapy.


Clinical And Basic Research Investigations Into The Long‐Term Effects Of Prenatal Opioid Exposure On Brain Development, Taylor Boggess, W. Chris Risher May 2020

Clinical And Basic Research Investigations Into The Long‐Term Effects Of Prenatal Opioid Exposure On Brain Development, Taylor Boggess, W. Chris Risher

Biomedical Sciences

Coincident with the opioid epidemic in the United States has been a dramatic increase in the number of children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a form of withdrawal resulting from opioid exposure during pregnancy. Many research efforts on NAS have focused on short‐term care, including acute symptom treatment and weaning of the infants off their drug dependency prior to authorizing their release. However, investigations into the long‐term effects of prenatal opioid exposure (POE) on brain development, from the cellular to the behavioral level, have not been as frequent. Given the importance of the perinatal period for human brain development, …