When a critically ill woman is pregnant, clinical interventions for the mother can have a profound effect on fetal status. It is essential that the fetus be considered as the second patient when developing the plan of care. The most practical solution for providing comprehensive care to pregnant women in the intensive care unit (ICU) is a collaborative approach involving members of the ICU and ...

Severe and mild iodine deficiency during pregnancy and lactation affects thyroid function of the mother and neonate as well as the infant's neuropsychological development. Studies performed in Spain confirm that most women are iodine deficient during pregnancy and lactation. Pregnant and breast feeding women and women planning to become pregnant should take iodine supplements.

Our purpose was to explore the pregnancy experiences of Australian women attending a specialized childbirth and mental illness (CAMI) antenatal clinic. A qualitative exploratory design was selected to give voice to women with severe mental illness receiving antenatal care. Telephone interviews with 41 women, 24 primiparous and 17 multiparous, were analyzed using thematic analysis. Three themes ...

In this paper I examine the question whether physicians have a legal and ethical duty to sustain pregnancies of women who die during the first or second trimester by the delivery of their fetuses. One ground for such a duty, on which I am focusing, is the duty of "special relationship" between the mother and the fetus. In my paper, I claim that the special relations the pregnant woman and the f...

Patients with Cushing's syndrome rarely become pregnant. This is a high risk situation both for the fetus and the mother, if untreated. We report a patient with Cushing's syndrome due to adrenocortical adenoma who became pregnant and was successfully treated with ketoconazole during the last period of pregnancy.

This case concerns a premature infant with typical signs of congenital syphilis born to an untreated foreign mother. Syphilis prevalence in pregnant women has been rising in Italy since the beginning of the 21st century, mainly due to immigration. A correct antenatal syphilis screening and consequent adequate therapy of pregnant woman are fundamental to prevent the neonatal infection.

This study confirmed the hypothesis that pregnant teenagers in the 1990s are more likely to have a mother who had a teenage pregnancy than non-pregnant teenagers. It also found that the daughters of teenage mothers are more likely to continue their own pregnancies.

Local data regarding Manchester repair are not available in the current literature. We report a retrospective case series of 7 women who presented with uterine prolapse, and underwent Manchester repair from January 1997 to May 2008 at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All of these women were multiparous (para 31) and wanted to avoid hysterectomy, and become pregnant. T...

About 6 to 8 percent of all pregnancies, especially primigravidae is complicated by preeclampsia, a classical triad of elevated blood pressure, proteinuria and edema. Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality are of utmost concern as the etiology of preeclampsia is uncertain. At-risk pregnant women can be suspected if they are primigravidae, multiparous, obesed, diabetic, hypertensive, or i...

In a randomized between-subjects design, participants (N = 80) were assigned to one of four conditions, 2 (pregnant, not pregnant) × 2 (extreme prime, moderate prime). It was hypothesized that primes involving moderate mental illness would be positively associated with increased perceived risk of developing postpartum depression. Hayes and Preacher's bootstrapping procedure was used to test the...