BACKGROUND There is a need to have uniformed reporting of perinatal mortality for births following assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment to enable international comparison and benchmarking of ART practice. METHODS The Australian and New Zealand Assisted Reproduction Database was used in this study. Births of ≥ 20 weeks gestation and/or ≥ 400 grams of birth weight following embryos ...

Mean plasma levels of prolactin (PRL), placental lactogen (OCS) and luteinizing hormone (LH) have been studied in pregnant ewes at different times of the year from approximately day 60 of gestation until parturition. Three groups were constituted and inseminated at different times: September, group I; November, group II; March, group III. Blood samples were collected on two consecutive days app...

Objective: To observe and analyse the impact of health education intervention on pregnancy outcomes of pregnant women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM). Methods: 120 patients with GDM who treated in our hospital from January 2015 to May 2017 were selected as the subjects of this study. Patients were randomly divided into the study group and control group with 60 cases in each group. Pati...

The incidence of ectopic pregnancy is to be decreased from 1 in 100 deliveries to 1 in 250. Tubal ectopic often becomes symptomatic in first trimester by eroding the tubal wall and causing hemorrhage and shock. It is very rare for an ectopic to progress into second trimester and remain asymptomatic. Diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy in first trimester can avert rupture and potential mortality and ...

Twenty-eight primiparous and 62 multiparous sows were bred and assigned to gestation treatments in which they were fed diets conraining O, 20 or 40% brewers d r i ed grains (BDG). Diets were formulated to be equal in lysine content and were hand fed to supply equal levels of metabolizable energy per sow daily. All sows received a 15% protein corn-soybean meal diet during a 21-day lactation peri...

Lead (Pb2+) is a well known neurotoxin that was frequently found in the environment and chronic exposure to lead has been matter of public health. In the present study the effect of lead on spatial memory in developmentally exposed rats and their dams in Morris water maze task were investigated. Female rats were divided into three groups and two groups exposed to 250 and 750 part per million (p...

In this investigation the effects of excess vitamin A administration during the early embryonic period were studied. Intramuscular injection of a single dose of 15000,20000 or 25000 IU/kg vitamin A to pregnant Balb/c strain mice on either day 7,8,9 or 10 of gestation (vaginal plug= day 0 of gestation) produced major malformations in the central nervous system (CNS) including exencephaly, h...

Lead (Pb2+) is a well known neurotoxin that was frequently found in the environment and chronic exposure to lead has been matter of public health. In the present study the effect of lead on spatial memory in developmentally exposed rats and their dams in Morris water maze task were investigated. Female rats were divided into three groups and two groups exposed to 250 and 750 part per million (p...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the effects of period of gestation and position of fetal neck on nuchal translucency measurement. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nuchal translucency was measured in the mid-sagittal plane, with the fetal neck in the flexed, neutral, and extended positions in 100 pregnant women between 11 and 13(+6) weeks. Mean nuchal translucency measurements at differe...