Over the past 40 years, there have been a number of review articles attempting to rationalise cord clamping practice. Early cord clamping was originally thought to be important in active management of the third stage of labour, but this was never evidence based. Without an evidence base to justify it, early cord clamping in clinical practice has remained very variable. There is good evidence th...

OBJECTIVE While delayed umbilical cord clamping (UCC) is thought to facilitate placental to infant blood transfusion, the physiological factors regulating flow in the umbilical arteries and veins during delayed UCC is unknown. We investigated the effects of gravity, by changing fetal height relative to the placenta, and ventilation on umbilical blood flows and the cardiovascular transition duri...

Objective: to investigate the prevalence and predisposing factors breastfeeding in first hour of life public maternity hospitals. Methods: this is a cross-sectional, analytical, exploratory study 390 puerperal women from two Sociodemographic characteristics, obstetric history, variables relating labor, delivery, postpartum were analyzed. Statistical differences assessed using chi-square test or...

Abstract Background Hernia of the umbilical cord (HUC) is an uncommon type abdominal wall defect characterized by a hernia midgut into proximal section cord. This occasionally coupled with other congenital abnormalities. frequently misdiagnosed and referred to as “omphalocele minor.” In certain cases, unintentional clamping causes iatrogenic intestinal harm. The purpose this retrospective study...

conclusion our study revealed that the hypoplastic umbilical artery group’s non-dominant cia had higher ri values than the contralateral dominant cia. results eleven of the 165 patients (6.7%) demonstrated a hypoplastic umbilical artery. second-trimester us showed median dominant and non-dominant cia pi values of 1.43 and 1.60 (p = 0.062), respectively, and median dominant and non-dominant cia ...

Abstract Background Placental passage of drugs in twins is poorly understood, and unknown regarding antiretrovirals (ARVs). In the event large differences exposure 2 to same maternal therapy, this could have a clinical impact terms prevention perinatal HIV transmission or adverse effects. Objective To describe frequency differential transplacental between twins. Study design The study was perfo...