background and objectives: muscle relaxing technique is an effective method in improving sleep quality. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of muscle relaxation technique on fetal outcomes in complicated pregnancies who had sleep disorders. materials and methods: this study was performed as a clinical trial on 160 pregnant women who suffered from preeclampsia and gestational d...

abstract background: sleep disorders like snoring, mouth breathing, and insomnia are frequent in pregnancy and studies have shown that poor sleep is linked to obstetric complications. muscle relaxation technique is an effective method used for improving sleep quality. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of muscle relaxation technique on fetal outcomes in complicated pregnancie...

OBJECTIVE To compare the extraction time and infection rate of umbilical cord by applying ethanol, humanmilk or dry care. METHOD The parallel single-blinded randomised clinical trial was performed on 300 neonates at Shahid Sadougi University of Medical Sciences and Health Service, Yazd, Iran, between March and September 2010. The neonates were divided into three random but numerically equal g...

A case of monochorionic-monoamniotic (MCMA) twin pregnancy with growth discordance because of difference of cord diameter in forked umbilical cord is reported.MCMA twins were diagnosed at 12 weeks of gestation and twin growth discordance was considered during the follow-up twice-weekly visits to the ultrasound and prenatal care units. The pregnancy was terminated at 34 weeks. Two live female ba...

objectives: controversial findings exist regarding the association between neonate gender and umbilical cord blood lipid levels. this study aims to compare the levels of lipids and lipoprotein b-100 in the umbilical cord blood of male and female newborns and assess the impact of these factors on neonatal anthropometric measurements. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 75 health...

The "lean" umbilical cord (also known as thin-cord syndrome) is a comparatively rare anomaly of the umbilical cord, which has seldom been described in the medical literature. We report on a 35-year-old women who presented to us at 29 + 4 weeks gestation with vaginal bleeding and cervical incompetence subsequently complicated not only by premature rupture of membranes but also acute placental in...

Hernia of umbilical cord is a well-known entity which presents with herniation of small bowel into the proximal part of umbilical cord. It has very good prognosis after surgical repair. Occasionally, it can have distinct presentations and varied malformations at the umbilicus which have bearing on the course of treatment and final outcome. Herein, we describe various presentations and malformat...

introduction: recognition of human leukocyte antigens (hla) is of importance for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. any hla-mismatches between the donor and recipient can cause graft rejection or other complications. in hla-typing experiments, usage of hla-known reference cells accompany with hla-unknown samples is obligatory. some international centers represent these cells with high exp...