In the neonate, Group B beta-haemolytic streptococcal osteomyelitis presents with few inflammatory signs, a mild clinical course, extensive bony destruction, and usually single bone involvement. Onset is late (10 to 60 days after birth) and obstetric trauma appears to predispose to infection. Serotype studies suggest transmission from mother to child at the time of delivery.

BACKGROUND In order to assess the importance of environmental and genetic risk on transition from health to psychotic disorder, a prospective study of individuals at average (n = 462) and high genetic risk (n = 810) was conducted. METHOD A three-year cohort study examined the rate of transition to psychotic disorder. Binary measures indexing environmental exposure (combining urban birth, cann...

OBJECTIVE High birth weight is a risk factor for neonatal complications. It is not known if the risk differs with body proportionality. The primary aim of this study was to determine the risk of adverse pregnancy outcome in relation to body proportionality in large-for-gestational-age (LGA) infants stratified by maternal gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Populat...

Abstract Purpose of Review This paper explores the complexities postpartum sexual health. It answers question on what should be considered normal health after birth and abnormal. Recent Findings Many women experience physical issues in months birth, such as dyspareunia, lack vaginal lubrication a loss desire. For some women, these can persist 12 18 birth. Mode is not associated with long-term d...

Improvements in obstetric care have certainly led to a decrease in the incidence of birth related spinal cord trauma but unfortunately it is still encountered from time to time. Its exact incidence is difficult to determine because the spinal cord is not routinely examined in all necropsies. Yates (1959) found evidence of distortional trauma to the cervical spine in 45% of perinatal necropsies....

For many years birth trauma has been stated to be the commonest cause of neonatal convulsions; there have, however, been few prospective studies to support this view. In 1954 Burke studied 46 infants who had had convulsions in the first 2 weeks of life; in 70% of the series she found birth trauma or anoxia during birth to have been the likely cause of the fit, and over a third of the infants co...

A 20 year old boy presented to the dermatology department for treatment of a congenital icthyosis with a history of generalized erythroderma and trauma related blistering since birth. At the time of presentation he was noted to have red hyperkeratotic plaq corrugated over the joint flexures, elbows, knees after birth erythema and blistering improved but patient developed hyperkeratotic scaling ...

Neuroglial heterotopia is a rare developmental abnormality. Most frequently the diagnosis is established at birth or in early childhood by a typical clinical presentation. Neuroglial heterotopia can be intracranial or extracranial. A typical example of extracranial heterotopia is nasal glioma, which can be isolated or can communicate directly with the intracranium. The most sensitive investigat...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of caesarean delivery on the incidence of selected neonatal outcomes. PATIENTS AND METHODS A 15-year, population-based, cohort study (1988-2002) using the Nova Scotia Atlee Perinatal Database compared neonatal outcomes in term newborns born by spontaneous and assisted vaginal delivery, with newborns born by caesarean delivery, with and without labour, using mu...

BACKGROUND Perineal warm packs are widely used during childbirth in the belief that they reduce perineal trauma and increase comfort during late second stage of labor. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of applying warm packs to the perineum on perineal trauma and maternal comfort during the late second stage of labor. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was undertaken. In t...