Introduction. Our study aims to investigate and evaluate (1) rates of success of ECV for breech presentation at term at the Royal Women's Hospital in comparison to international standards; (2) mode of delivery following ECV; (3) factors influencing success rates of ECV at the Royal Women's Hospital. Methods. An audit of all women who underwent ECV between the years 2007 and 2014 at the Royal Wo...

BACKGROUND Although geographic and racial differences in the incidence of cancer are well recognized, information regarding any dissimilarity in clinico-pathological behavior of cancers is scarce. In particular, information from the developing countries regarding clinico-pathologic features of even some of the common cancers such as ovarian cancer is lacking. METHODS Information was prospecti...

Fourteen cases of abdominal pregnancy managed at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, over a ten-year period (January 1994 to December 2003) were reviewed. The incidence ratio of abdominal pregnancy was one in 654 deliveries. It accounted for 4.3% of ectopic pregnancies. Age range was 20 to 43 years; 63.4% of the patients were unemployed and 50% were nullipara. Pre-operative diagno...

BACKGROUND In high income countries there has been little improvement in stillbirth rates over the past two decades. Previous studies have indicated an ethnic disparity in the rate of stillbirths. This study aimed to determine whether maternal ethnicity is independently associated with late stillbirth in New Zealand. METHODS Cases were women with a singleton, late stillbirth (≥ 28 weeks' gest...

Results: Thirty one thousand and eight hundred women delivered during the study period. One thousand two hundred and seventy two (4%) women were age 40 or older, of which 1202 (3.7%) were included this study, of these 254 (21%) were nullipara. The cesarean delivery rate for these patients was 42.0%, while multipara women it was 26.0%. In the control group cesarean rate was 19.5% for nullipara a...

Latent class models are useful for classifying subjects by dietary patterns. Our goals were to use latent transition models to identify dietary patterns during pregnancy and postpartum, to estimate the prevalence of these dietary patterns, and to model transition probabilities between dietary patterns as a function of covariates. Women who were enrolled in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutritio...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and the safety of uterine preservation in patients with early-stage uterine adenosarcoma who want to preserve future fertility. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of patients with stage I uterine adenosarcoma diagnosed and treated at a single institute from 1998 through 2014. RESULTS Among the total of 31 patients, uterine preservation s...

Background Pre-eclampsia and the subsequent eclampsia account for a common cause of maternal mortality worldwide and efforts aimed at reducing its menace are vital. Objective To estimate the serum magnesium levels in pre-eclampsia and eclampsia and to study the effect of using different regimens of magnesium sulphate. Methods 70 cases of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia and 35 normal pregnant women ...

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women world wide (Parkin and Whelan, 2000). A rapid rise in annual incidence rate of breast cancer has been observed between 1975-1990 in Asian and African than North American and European women (Sasco, 2001). The published data from Karachi Cancer Registry, the reported incidence of breast cancer was 34.6% and observed as the most common c...

Objective The present study was undertaken to time pregnancy (TTP) and factors associated with TTP in women axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) compared rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods We included 274 SpA 317 RA from the Norwegian nationwide registry RevNatus. For all women, we had retrospectively collected data on TTP, a subgroup also prospectively data. using Kaplan‐Meier plots log rank test. To...