SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: To review the main physiological and pharmacological changes related to prematurity, promote evidence-based clinical practice. METHODS: This is a narrative whose research was carried out in ScienceDirect Medline databases via PubMed, searching for articles any language from January 2000 February 2020. RESULTS: Premature newborns are born before completing maturation process t...

This paper reviews the clinical recognition, diagnosis, and management of ectopic pregnancy at the Queen of Angels Hospital for the past 15 years. The incidence of ectopic pregnancy to deliveries is 1:195. Pain is the cardinal symptom of ectopic pregnancy, and amenorrhea of some degree was present in all cases. Pelvic inflammatory disease is a factor in the development of tubal pregnancy in ...

Background: Any pregnancy in which the fertilised ovum implants outside intrauterine cavity is an ectopic pregnancy. Since none of extrauterine areas can support placental attachment or a developing embryo, it invariably risks rupture and haemorrhage. It thus considered life-threatening emergency. Lower abdominal pain with vaginal bleeding women reproductive age raises suspicion However, this n...

Steroid hormone biosynthesis by the fetal adrenal gland is crucial to the integrity and continuation of pregnancy, growth of the fetal and maternal tissues, as well as perinatal homeostatic adaptation for extrauterine survival. The adrenal cortex in the primate undergoes a remarkable morphological and functional remodeling such that the fetal adrenal cortex transforms into an adult adrenal cort...

Steroid hormone biosynthesis by the fetal adrenal gland is crucial to the integrity and continuation of pregnancy, growth of the fetal and maternal tissues, as well as perinatal homeostatic adaptation for extrauterine survival. The adrenal cortex in the primate undergoes a remarkable morphological and functional remodeling such that the fetal adrenal cortex transforms into an adult adrenal cort...

Heterotopic pregnancy, the simultaneous existence of an intrauterine and an extrauterine pregnancy, is an extremely rare condition, with a reported incidence of 1 in 30,000 pregnancies [1]. Women who undergo assisted reproduction are at increased risk and in this group the incidence may reach 0.75% [2]. Because findings in patients with heterotopic pregnancy, including abdominal pain, adnexal m...