Fetal arrhythmias are not uncommon in pregnancy. The diagnosis can be established on routine ultrasound scan. Fetal supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is the most common cause of fetal tachycardia. If left undiagnosed and untreated, these fetuses may develop cardiac failure, hydrops fetalis and eventually death. We report two fetuses diagnosed antenatally to have fetal SVT. Both fetuses were in...

Background: Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR), that is, an estimated fetal weight less than ten percent of the standard weight for gestational age, is one of the important challenges in modern obstetrics, the management and treatment of which is cause-dependent. Given the lack of an accepted treatment for these patients, this study aimed to introduce a treatment commonly u...

Fetal heart tone monitoring is a frequently used tool during nonobstetric maternal surgery to evaluate the immediate well-being of a fetus. We present a case of a parturient requiring an emergency craniotomy, during which fetal heart tone monitoring demonstrated fetal distress patterns. A simultaneous emergency craniotomy and emergency cesarean delivery proceeded with favorable outcomes for bot...

Introduction: Fetal thrombotic vasculopathy is a recently described placental alteration with varying degrees of involvement and often associated with adverse perinatal outcomes. The diagnosis is made histologically and therefore is postnatal, which makes it a challenge in clinical practice. Method: Case report and review of literature on the subject. Results: The present case refers to a p...

BACKGROUND Intrapartum fetal hypoxia remains an important cause of death and permanent handicap and in a significant proportion of cases there is evidence of suboptimal care related to fetal surveillance. Cardiotocographic (CTG) monitoring remains the basis of intrapartum surveillance, but its interpretation by healthcare professionals lacks reproducibility and the technology has not been shown...

The association of fetal sex with pregnancy induced hypertension and pre-eclampsia, the interaction between sex and risk factors for fetal growth restriction, and the increased likelihood of second stage arrest with male sex have all been studied. However, a Medline search (1966 to August 2002) using the search terms fetal gender, fetal sex, labour, delivery, and childbirth found no studies on ...

Fetal reduction is a novel method that aims to reduce higher-order gestation lower-order pregnancy both maternal and perinatal adverse outcomes. One of the methods fetal by intracardiac injection KCl under ultrasound guidance. Here, we present case series eight women who had undergone reduction. All them were trichorionic triamniotic triplets at time In seven women, was done twin gestation, whe...

Introduction: Although warm water is used for labor pain reduction, there is controversy regarding the potential complications of water birth. Therefore, this study was performed to evaluate fetal and neonatal complications of water birth versus those observed in conventional modes of delivery. Methods:This clinical randomized trial was performed on 200 pregnant women at Mashhad Omolbanin Hosp...

Preterm birth is a major cause of perinatal mortality and long-term morbidity. Chorioamnionitis is a common cause of preterm birth. Clinical chorioamnionitis, characterised by maternal fever, leukocytosis, tachycardia, uterine tenderness, and preterm rupture of membranes, is less common than subclinical/histologic chorioamnionitis, which is asymptomatic and defined by inflammation of the chorio...

OBJECTIVE In this retrospective cohort (1998 to 2007), 145,445 singleton live births in Hillsborough, Florida, were analyzed to elucidate the relationship between fetal morbidity and prenatal exposure to six criteria air pollutants. METHODS This study was based on three linked databases: Florida Hospital Discharge, vital statistics records, and air pollution meteorological data from the Envir...