Thrombophilia in obstetric practice

Combined Thrombophilia and Obstetric Complications

Gestational vascular complications are a major cause of maternal and fetal morbidity. A growing body of evidence suggests significant correlation of inherited and acquired thrombophilia with pregnancy loss, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, placental abruption, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), and intra uterine fetal death (IUFD). Placental pathological findings in women with thrombophilia are c...

Thrombophilia, Anticoagulant Therapy, and Pregnancy Outcome in Women with Poor Obstetric History

Background: The role of anticoagulant medications in preventing placental mediated pregnancy complications in patients with and without thrombophilia has not been investigated well. One underlying cause is associated with adverse effects of anticoagulants in pregnancy including teratogenicity, complexities in dosing and management of anticoagulants during pregnancy and labor. We aimed to assess...

Obstetric audit in general practice.

Many recent papers have tried to show how inadvisable it is for general practitioners to undertake obstetric care and more especially obstetric deliveries.1-3 The high proportion of artificially induced labours, the enthusiasm for the increasing "mechanisation" of labour, descriptions of unexpected and sinister disease that the inexperienced obstetrician would not detect have all made general p...

Obstetric Therapeutics; Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics in Obstetric Practice

Practice Guidelines for Obstetric Anesthesia

1 February 2016 P RACTICE guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the practitioner and patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to the clinical needs and constraints and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. In addition, practice guidelines developed by the American Societ...