abstract background: prenatal care consists of a series of clinical visits and services offered to pregnant women throughout the antepartum period. despite advances in the extent of prenatal care use in iran, some women still avoid using these services. it is, therefore, very important to investigate the prevalence of prenatal care use, and to identify the factors associated with it. this study...

Rotator cuff injuries are common in both young and elderly patients. Despite improvements in instrumentation and surgical techniques, the failure rates following tendon reconstruction remain unacceptably high. To improve outcomes, graft patches have been developed to provide mechanical strength and to furnish a scaffold for biologic growth across the delicate tendon-bone junction. Although no p...

Prenatal losses in U.S. pig breeds range from 30 to 50%, of which greater than 75% occurs before d 30 of gestation and is thought to result from littermate asynchrony. Numbers of embryos can be experimentally increased to d 30 using superovulation (excess ova shed) and superinduction (transfer of embryos to an already pregnant uterus); however, these females farrow the same number of pigs as un...

This study examined how a major life stressor—the transition to parenthood—impacts marital satisfaction and functioning in persons with different romantic attachment orientations. As hypothesized, if highly ambivalent women entered the transition perceiving low levels of spousal support, they experienced significant declines (pre-to-postnatal changes) in perceptions of spousal support and marit...

Primiparous women, aged 18-35 years were selected randomly from different medical college hospitals in Bangalore city, India to find out association if any between maternal periodontal disease and infant preterm low birth weight (PLBW). Case were defined as those mothers who delivered an infant weighing under 2500 g and born before 37 weeks gestation and control mothers as those who delivered a...

background :reduction of neonatal mortality rate can improve health and newborn status of the society. this study was done to evaluate the prevalence and patternof causes for neonatal mortality in gorgan, north of iran. methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out on all birth in the maternity dezyani hospital in gorgan, north of iran during 1 september 2008 -31 march 2011 ....

background: the major aneuploidies that are diagnosed prenatally involve the autosomal chromosomes 13, 18, and 21, as well as sex chromosomes, x and y. because multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (mlpa) is rapid and non-invasive, it has replaced traditional culture methods for the screening and diagnosis of common aneuploidies in some countries. objective:  to evaluate the sensitiv...

introduction: the most common chromosomal abnormalities detected in perinatal period are aneuploidies of chromosome 21, 18, 13, x and y. the aim of this study is to assess referral reasons for invasive diagnostic method using rapid qf-pcr for fetal chromosomal abnormalities in gynecologists’ referrals. methods: a retrospective study of results was performed on data between september 2015 and ju...

Damage to and repair of the acetabular labral-chondral complex are areas of clinical interest in the treatment of young adults with pain in the hip and in the prevention of degenerative arthritis of the hip. There are varying theories as to why most acetabular tears are located anterosuperiorly. We have studied the prenatal development of the human acetabular labral-chondral complex in 11 fetal...