Jamaica Research Articles

Spanish Jamaica

Spanish Jamaica

Antiphospholipid syndrome: laboratory concerns, fetal loss, and pregnancy management.

Antiphospholipid antibodies are of interest to obstetrician-gynecologists because they are associated with fetal loss. We diagnosed our first patient with fetal loss associated with aPL in 1983. The same year, Lubbe et al reported that successful pregnancy could be achieved in women with aPL by treating the mother with corticosteroids and low-dose aspirin.’ By 1985 we had treated eight consecutive pregnancies complicated by aPL with the regimen proposed by Lubbe and others.2 In the meantime, a small international group of interested physicians and researchers was formed. Their third semi-annual meeting was held in Kingston, Jamaica in 1988; since then, the group has been known as the Kingston Antiphospholipid Study (KAPS) group. The seminal works of individuals in this group established the major clinical features (including pregnancy loss) associated with aPL. Graham Hughes3 and Nigel Harris4 suggested that these features should form the basis of a new autoimmune condition, now known as the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Numerous studies, reviews, and case reports have served to emphasize the important association between aPL and certain complications of pregnancy. This review focuses on the laboratory and clinical features of APS pertinent to the practicing obstetrician/ gynecologist. Areas of controversy will be emphasized.

Jamaica: Leveraged Sellout

Jamaica: Leveraged Sellout

Archibald John Monteith: Native Helper and Assistant in the Jamaica Mission at New Carmel

Archibald John Monteith: Native Helper and Assistant in the Jamaica Mission at New Carmel

Merge and Separate: Jamaica Kincaid's Fiction

Merge and Separate: Jamaica Kincaid's Fiction

Jamaica Kincaid: “First they must be children”

Jamaica Kincaid: “First they must be children”

Ferns of Jamaica

Ferns of Jamaica

The Earliest Known Date of Collection of Myndus crudus (Homoptera: Cixiidae) from Coconut Palms in Jamaica

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Caribbean accessions at the University of the West Indies library: Mona, Jamaica

Une etude detaillee des acquisitions a titre onereux et gratuit est la comparaison entre les sources recentes et plus anciennes disponibles dans ces bibliotheques universitaires est faite et l'analyse de l'origine (pays, langue) des entrees est presentee

Review: Dread: The Rastafarians of Jamaica by Joseph Owens

Review: <i>Dread: The Rastafarians of Jamaica</i> by Joseph Owens

Sex, Contraception, and Motherhood in Jamaica

Sex, Contraception, and Motherhood in Jamaica

Dependency and Marginality in Kingston, Jamaica

Dependency and Marginality in Kingston, Jamaica

A Selected Bibliography on Jamaica

A Selected Bibliography on Jamaica

Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery

Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery

Jamaica and the electoral coup of 1980

Jamaica and the electoral coup of 1980

Rehabilitation in a developing country--Jamaica.

Rehabilitation in a developing country--Jamaica.

Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery

Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery

Jamaica moves right as Manley goes

Jamaica moves right as Manley goes

Dread Talk—The Speech of the Rastafarian in Jamaica

Dread Talk—The Speech of the Rastafarian in Jamaica

The Rastafarians. The Dreadlocks of Jamaica

The Rastafarians. The Dreadlocks of Jamaica