introduction: there are major differences in neonatal and obstetrics outcomes of labour among different ethnicities. the present study compared the neonatal and obstetrics outcomes of labour between the iranian and afghan ethnicities. methods: neonatal and obstetrics problems were evaluated in iranian and afghan pregnant women, who had referred to arash educational/treatment center for labour d...

A female newborn, a product of consanguineous marriage born by caesarian section delivery with a birth weight of 3.75 kg, was admitted to our hospital with abdominal distension. Antenatal ultrasound showed congenital heart disease and a pelvic mass. On examination, she had lower abdominal mass emanating from the pelvis. There was polydactly and syndactly of the right hand and polydactly of the ...

The case of a woman with sickle cell trait who sustained a cardiac arrest and died during a Caesarian section under general anaesthesia is reported. Because the common causes of intraoperative hypoxia and shock were ruled out in this case, we believe that death was due to severe concealed aorto-caval compression. After delivery, the release of a large volume of hypoxaemic, acidotic blood with s...

UNLABELLED An infant, showing peripheral cyanosis, was born after lower abdominal peripheral caesarian section of the pregnant women having TORCH positive test with the infection of Toxoplasma gondiiand Cytomegalovirus. She had three abortions prior to this pregnancy. Doppler echocardiography of the baby showed profound intracardiac defects. After birth, echocardiography was carried out for dia...

One of the most useful applications of epidural analgesia is in the old dogs. When combined with effective sedation, epidural analgesia is definitely safer than general anaesthesia in old patients. Epidural analgesia can be routinely considered in all ages of dogs in select cases of caesarian section, hysterectomy, painful manipulation of the hind limbs and rectal, vaginal or perineal surgery (...

We report the case of a young patient with 36 weeks pregnancy, and an acute respiratory infection with severe bronchospasm, who developed an occipital headache and neck pain on the third day of inadvertent dural puncture during placement of combined epidural spinal anaesthesia for caesarian section. It was diagnosed as post-dural puncture headache until generalised tonic clonic seizures occurre...

BACKGROUND Association between caesarian section (C-section) and obesity is controversial and mostly based on body mass index (BMI), which has inherent limitations. Using direct estimates of body fat mass, we aimed to assess the association between C-section and adiposity using fat mass index and BMI z-score in three birth cohort studies from Pelotas, Brazil. METHODS We measured weight, heigh...

AIM To determine whether vaginal delivery along with antiretroviral therapy and avoidance of breast feeding is safe in preventing mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. SETTING Pediatric & Perinatal HIV clinic, B.J. Wadia Hospital for children, Mumbai. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis. METHODS AND MATERIALS 222 HIV-infected pregnant women were treated with zidovudine from 14 weeks...