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- WOMEN HEALTH: - G & O & NEONATOLOGY: -Prevention of cerebral palsy during labour: role of foetal lactate
Background Despite significant advances, perinatal hemolytic disease has not been eradicated and is still associated with significant morbidity and mortality, especially in developing ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: G & O: -Treatment options and pregnancy outcome in women with idiopathic recurrent miscarriage: a randomized placebo-controlled study
Objective To compare the use of enoxaparin alone with combination therapy of prednisone, aspirin and progesterone in the treatment of women with idiopathic recurrent miscarriage (IRM) in ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: -FETAL MEDICINE: -G & O: -Individualized norms of optimal fetal growth
OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate that individualized optimal fetal growth norms, accounting for physiologic and pathologic determinants of fetal growth, better identify normal and abnormal outcomes of ...
- ANAL SPHINCTER RUPTURES: -NEONATOLOGY: -G & O: -Decreasing the incidence of anal sphincter tears during delivery
OBJECTIVE: To estimate if an interventional program causes a decrease in the frequency of anal sphincter ruptures. METHODS: A total of 12,369 vaginal deliveries between 2002 and March 2007 were ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: -PELVIC FLOOR DISORDERS: -Female sexual function and pelvic floor disorders
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the hypothesis that pelvic floor disorders are associated with female sexual problems, independently of other related factors. METHODS: The study population included 301 ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: - G & O: -Transcervical foley catheter with and without oxytocin for cervical ripening
OBJECTIVE: To estimate whether adding oxytocin to transcervical Foley catheter preinduction cervical ripening improves induction success. METHODS: This trial enrolled 200 women with singleton ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: - G & O: -Pelvic floor fitness using lay instructors
OBJECTIVE: Typically, pelvic muscle training for women with pelvic floor disorders is provided by medical personnel. We sought to evaluate the feasibility and symptom improvement after a nonmedical ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: -Surgical treatment of endometriosis
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the need for further surgery after laparoscopic excision of endometriosis or hysterectomy. METHODS: In this retrospective study, women who had surgery for ...
- G & O: -Delivery mode and severe intraventricular hemorrhage in single, very low birth weight, vertex infants
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between delivery mode and grade 3–4 intraventricular hemorrhage in singleton, vertex presenting, very low birth weight (VLBW) (1,500 g or less) liveborn ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: -PLACENTAL PATHOLOGY: -Risk of recurrent preterm birth and placental pathology
OBJECTIVE: To estimate whether placental pathological lesions from an index preterm birth are associated with an increased risk of recurrent preterm birth and to estimate whether certain pathologic ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: G & O: -High fiber in pregnancy cuts risk of preeclampsia
Women who consume a high amount of dietary fiber during early pregnancy have a reduced risk of subsequent preeclampsia compared with those who eat little, according to a new prospective study1 For ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: -G & O: -Isolated hyperglycemia at 1 hour on oral glucose tolerance test in pregnancy resembles gestational diabetes mellitus in predicting postpartum metabolic dysfunction
OBJECTIVE Gestational impaired glucose tolerance (GIGT), defined by a single abnormal value on antepartum 3-h oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), is a metabolically heterogeneous disorder. Indeed, ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: .G & O: MATERNAL DEATH: - Maternal death in the 21st century: causes, prevention, and relationship to cesarean delivery
Objective We sought to examine etiology and preventability of maternal death and the causal relationship of cesarean delivery to maternal death in a series of approximately 1.5 million deliveries ...
- WOMEN HEALTH: Effects of oxytocin-induced uterine hyperstimulation during labor on fetal oxygen status and fetal heart rate patterns
Objective The objective of the study was to evaluate effects of oxytocin-induced hyperstimulation on fetal oxygen saturation and fetal heart rate patterns.Study Design Uterine activity of 56 women ...
- PREVIOUS CESAREAN AND POST VAGINAL DELIVERY & UTERINE RUPTURE & VERY HIGH OXITOCIN DOSIS: -Higher maximum doses of oxytocin are associated with an unacceptably high risk for uterine rupture in patients attempting vaginal birth after cesarean delivery
Objective The objective of the study was to more precisely estimate the effect of maximum oxytocin dose on uterine rupture risk in patients attempting vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) by ...
