Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) also referred to as recurrent miscarriage or recurrent spontaneous abortion has been a cause for bad obstetric history along with still births, intrauterine fetal deaths and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). According to the Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, for epidemiological studies, three or more pregnancy losses are c...

The aim of this case–control study was to determine the risk factors for low birthweight in a farming region in South Africa, with particular attention to maternal alcohol use and smoking, both independently and in combination. Data collection was via structured postpartum interviews and review of antenatal and delivery records. The study setting was a regional referral hospital in a farming re...

Serum IgM and IgA levels were measured in 97 newborn infants with and 141 without hepatosplenomegaly. All were considered normal at birth and had no apparent disease on clinical examination. Thirty per cent. of the infants with hepatosplenomegaly were found to have IgM levels of 20 mg/100 ml or greater, a level established as abnormal when compared with the control group. The number of infants ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between maternal ethnicity and gestational age with the incidence of low birth weight and intrauterine growth restriction. STUDY DESIGN Prospective, analytic study Methods: The study was conducted between March 14th and April 4th 2011 in Women's Hospital HMC. The data was ascertained from the delivery register of labor ward on daily basis using predesigned...

Recent studies have shown that infants with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) undergo catch-up growth during infancy. The aim of our study was to evaluate the postnatal growth in a cohort of IUGR infants born in a tertiary-level Obstetric University Hospital of Northern Sardinia. An observational retrospective study was conducted on 12 IUGR (group A) and 12 control infants (group B) by mea...

Helmut Seckel described Seckel syndrome (SS) which is an autosomal recessive disorder and characterized by cleft lip and palate, club foot, scoliosis, gastrointestinal malformations, and multiple skeletal malformations.[1,2] Other accompanying anomalies are severe microcephaly, craniofacial dysmorphism with characteristic bird headed appearance, prominent beaked triangular nose, micrognathia, v...

Birth-weight-gestational-age standards help to identify infants in need of special care and to determine causes and means for preventing retardation of intrauterine growth. Previously published standards either were based on small samples, data several decades old or characteristics of subpopulations in the United States or they were not specific for type of birth and sex. We compared the data ...

Several lines of evidence, mostly derived from animal studies, indicate that changes in fetal environment may affect renal development. Besides maternal hyperglycemia or drug exposure, that were recently found to alter nephrogenesis, changes in vitamin A supply to the fetus may prove to be responsible for most of the variations in nephron number found in the population. A low vitamin A status i...

middleeast in children of consanguineous parents1. it is a rare autosomal recessive disorder known also as middle-east syndrome or Richadson-Kirk syndrome or hypoparathyroidism -retardation-dysmorphism (HRd) syndrome2. Children afflicted with this condition are born with intrauterine growth retardation, and present with hypocalcemic tetany or seizures due to hypoparathyroidism at an early stage...