OBJECTIVE The effects of suicidal behavior on obstetric outcomes remain dangerously unquantified. We sought to report on the risk of adverse obstetric outcomes for US women with suicidal behavior at the time of delivery. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional analysis of delivery hospitalizations from 2007-2012 National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample. From the same hospitalization record, Inte...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to assess changes in the consistency of the uterine cervix and correlate the obtained results with the risk of premature delivery and time from examination to delivery MATERIAL AND METHODS Elastographic images of the cervix in a group of 44 patients, admitted to the hospital due to uterine contractions before 37 weeks of gestation, were recorded and analyze...

Here the histopathology findings of placental infarction associated with late preterm birth are reported. The subject was a male neonate delivered at 34 weeks and 5 days of gestation with a birth weight of ∼2500 g. His mother had been diagnosed with a threatened premature birth at 27 weeks of pregnancy. The size and weight of the placenta was considered appropriate for gestational age. On the c...

In a one year prospective study in the Trent region we examined the short term outcome (survival to discharge) of all infants who required admission to a baby care unit. Infants of less than or equal to 28 weeks' gestation who received all their perinatal care in one of five large centres (each providing more than 600 ventilator days/year) showed significantly better survival rates than infants...

Analysis of basal body temperature patterns (BBT) after continuous treatment with sex-steroids reveals that an extremely high percentage of subjects experience a delayed re-establishment of ovulation in the post treat ment cycles, whereas the delayed re-appearance of ovulation is also observed with a high percentage in the recovery process of hypothalamic, pituitary and ovarian functions after ...

Renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) increases rapidly after delivery of term fetal sheep and parallels the rise in heart rate (HR) and arterial pressure. To examine the RSNA response at birth in immature lambs, experiments were performed in chronically instrumented preterm fetal sheep (118- to 125-day gestation, term 145 days) before and after delivery by cesarean section. HR remained uncha...

OBJECTIVE Despite the current prevalence of preterm births, no clear guidelines exist on the optimal mode of delivery. Our objective was to investigate the effects of mode of delivery on neonatal outcomes among premature infants in a large cohort. STUDY DESIGN We applied a retrospective cohort study design to a database of 6,408 births. Neonates were stratified by birth weight and a composite...