BACKGROUND Intermittent fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring during labor using an acoustic stethoscope is the most frequent method for fetal assessment of well-being in low- and middle-income countries. Evidence concerning reliability and efficacy of this technique is almost nonexistent. OBJECTIVES To determine the value of routine intermittent FHR monitoring during labor in the detection of FH...

PURPOSE To evaluate the perinatal results for neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia diagnosed prenatally. METHOD We reviewed data from 38 cases of congenital diaphragmatic hernia diagnosed prenatally from January 1995 to December 2003 in the Fetal Medicine Unit of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, São Paulo University Medical School. The main data analyzed were gestational ...

BACKGROUND Reviews of perinatal deaths are mostly facility based. Given the number of women who, globally, deliver outside of facilities, this data may be biased against total population data. We aimed to analyse population based perinatal mortality data from a LMIC setting (Mpumalanga, South Africa) to determine the causes of perinatal death and the rate of maternal complications in the settin...

Perinatal mortality (PM) is a major public health problem in India and multiple maternal foetal risk factors have been attributed to high perinatal mortality. This review aimed systematically summarize the epidemiological literature on fetal for PM including those still birth, intrauterine deaths; early neonatal mortality; deaths India. systematic was compliant with preferred reporting items re...

In Brazil, neonatal mortality rate is considered incompatible with the country development conditions, and has been a Public Health concern. Reduction in infant mortality rates has also been part of the Millennium Development Goals, a commitment made by countries, members of the Organization of United Nations (OUN), including Brazil. Fetal mortality rate is considered a highly sensitive indicat...

INTRODUCTION Fetal intrauterine death constitutes a frequent problem in obstetric practice. The objectives of this study were to determine the frequency and to identify risk factors of fetal death at Reference General Hospital of Kamina. METHODS The study was done in two times. First, a cross-sectional descriptive study of 379 deliveries which allowed to determine the frequency of fetal death...

Trends in the civil registration of fetal death in multiple gestations that has occurred before, but expelled from the womb after, 24 weeks' gestation are examined using England and Wales 1993-2004 registration obtained from the Office for National Statistics. Count was made of fetal death registrations in which fetus papyraceous, fetal death before 24 weeks' gestation or fetocide before 24 wee...

BACKGROUND Whether in utero exposure to tobacco smoke increases a woman's risk of fetal loss later in life is unknown, though data on childhood exposure suggest an association may exist. This study evaluated the association between in utero exposure to tobacco smoke and fetal loss in the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), which enrolled ∼40% of the pregnant women in Norway from 199...

Despite declines in globalmortality rates in infants and children under five years of age in recent decades, neonatalmortality has remained relatively static. Consequently, approximately twothirds of deaths in infants and over one-third of deaths in under-five-year-olds now occur in the first 28 days of life (i.e., the neonatal period). There are an estimated four million neonatal deaths per ye...