Background: Pregnant women of extremes of reproductive age group at both ends (< 20 years and > 35 years age) comprise high risk groups. Pregnant women up to 35 years get many complications like diabetes, spontaneous abortion, hypertensive disorders, autosomal trisomies, increased newborn and maternal morbidity and mortality and cesarean sections. Pregnancies of < 18 years age group is complica...

OBJECTIVE To explore the association between maternal and paternal age and risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in offspring. DESIGN Historical birth cohort study. SETTING Kaiser Permanente (KP) in Northern California. PARTICIPANTS All singleton children born at KP from January 1, 1995, to December 31, 1999, were included in the study. We identified 593 children who had ASD diagnoses ...

Purpose: Regarding changing trends in the policies affecting perinatal and neonatal care, there is a need to assess stata of pregnancies adolescents women advanced age with term ten years. We aimed evaluate maternal, fetal, outcomes during last decade tertiary referral center Sivas province central Anatolia.&#x0D; Methods: In this retrospective study, we collected maternal data from hospital el...

CONTEXT Advancing paternal age has been reported as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders. OBJECTIVES To determine whether advanced paternal age is associated with an increased risk of BPD in the offspring and to assess if there was any difference in risk when analyzing patients with early-onset BPD separately. DESIGN A nationwide nested case-control study based on Swedish register...

Objective: Retrospective evaluation of the results of the chorion villus sampling, amniocentesis, and cordocentesis of 2295 cases performed for prenatal diagnosis. Methods: Between 2001 and 2007 (first 6 months) 54 cases of genetic chorion villus sampling, 2086 cases of genetic amniocentesis and 155 cases of cordocentesis were evaluated according to indications, success of karyotyping and the r...

Aim: To compare risk factors for extratubal gestations with tubal gestations. Materials and methods: Case control design with retrospective examination of an electronic database to identify ectopic gestations. Ectopic gestations were confirmed through ultrasound examination or serum beta hCG levels. We defined an ectopic gestation as implantation of pregnancy outside uterine cavity; tubal ectop...