Background: Constipation is a common complaint during pregnancy. Iranian Traditional Medicine (ITM) has some recommendations for this complaint. Objective: In this study, interventions of constipation in pregnancy have been presented and their efficacy and safety evidence were reviewed from modern literature. Methods: Interventions selected based upon the chapters related to health protectio...

background: gonadotropin-releasing hormone (gnrh) plays essential roles in embryo implantation, invasion of trophoblastic tissue, and steroid synthesis in the placenta. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of gnrh antagonist administration on pregnancy outcomes in early implantation period. materials and methods: in this retrospective study, 94 infertile women undergoing ...

Background & Aims: Serum progesterone level (as early as 4 weeks gestation) reflects the relation between embryo and corpus luteum. The purpose of the present study was to compare serum progesterone level on day 14 after embryo transfer among 3 groups of patients undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles; normal pregnancy (viable intrauterine pregnancy), abnormal pregnancy (misc...

Background & Aims: Accurate knowledge about gestational age is very important in taking decision for pregnancy management and termination. According to Naegele’s rule the length of pregnancy is 280 days after LMP and according to studies performed in Harvard University, duration of pregnancy in nullipare and multipare women has been respectively 288 and 283 days and according to a study perform...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate weight gain during pregnancy and birth weight in rural regions of Tabriz, a province in the northwest of Iran. Materials & Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using routinely collected data of pregnant mothers from rural health centers. Eight health centers were randomly selected in rural areas of Tabriz. Totally, 874 women aged...

background: childbearing years in the women's life are associated with the highest risk of depression. in this study depression in third trimester of pregnancy and after delivery was studied. depressive symptom score and the proportion of mothers above a threshold were compared to indicate probable depressive disorder at each stage. methods : this prospective cohort study was conducted in rural...

abstract objective:anxiety of pregnancy influences the childbirth factors and pregnancy outcomes. mindfulness is an approach that can be used to control this anxiety. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of mindfulness-based islamic- spiritual schemas on pregnancy anxiety in pregnant women and their infants' physiological parameters.   method: this study was a pre- experimenta...

Aim: The goal of this study was to identify potential risk factors for ectopic pregnancy in women followed in German gynecological practices. Methods: The present study included pregnant women diagnosed with ectopic pregnancy and pregnant women without ectopic pregnancy followed in 262 gynecological practices between January 2012 and December 2016. The effects of demographic and clinical variab...