Maternal plasma volume and disorders of pregnancy.

Maternal plasma volume and disorders of pregnancy.

Maternal plasma pentraxin 3 at 11 to 13 weeks of gestation in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether in pregnancies that subsequently develop preeclampsia (PE), the maternal plasma concentration of the inflammatory factor pentraxin 3 (PTX3) at 11-13 weeks of gestation is increased and whether such a possible increase is associated with uterine artery pulsatility index (PI). METHODS The concentration of plasma PTX3 at 11-13 weeks was measured in a case-control...

Maternal plasma inhibin A at 11-13 weeks of gestation in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential value of maternal plasma inhibin A in first-trimester screening for preeclampsia (PE). METHOD The concentration of inhibin A at 11-13 weeks was measured in samples from 121 pregnancies that developed PE, 87 cases of gestational hypertension (GH) and 208 normal controls. The distributions of inhibin A multiple of median (MoM) in the control and hypertensi...

Pnm-23: The Relationship between Fetal Sex and Maternal Blood Group with Sleep Disorders during Pregnancy

Background: 79% of the pregnant women suffer from sleep disorders. These disorders are the result of physiological, hormonal, physical changes, that occur in pregnancy due to different causes including fetal sex and maternal blood group. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between fetal sex and maternal blood group with sleep disorders during pregnancy in the second and third trimeste...

The Effect of Maternal Thyroid Disorders (Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism) During Pregnancy and Lactation on Skin Development in Wistar Rat Newborns

  Objective(s): Previous studies have shown that thyroid hormones are necessary for normal development of many organs and because of the importance of skin as the largest and the most important organ in human body protection in spite of external environment, the study of thyroid hormones effects on skin development is considerable. In this survey we have tried to study the effects of maternal h...