A hospital based cross-sectional qualitative study was conducted at Kintampo Municipal Hospital in Northern Ghana, to identify obstetric emergencies and barriers to emergency care seeking; examine the perspective of midwives regarding their role in maternity care and management of obstetric emergencies, and explore women's knowledge and response to obstetric emergencies. Study subjects comprise...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of cocaine and marijuana use during adolescent pregnancy in São Paulo-SP, Brazil, with psychiatric disorders, social status and sexual history. METHOD One thousand pregnant adolescents were assessed by using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, and sociodemographic and socio-economic questionnaire at the obstetric center of a public hospit...

Background: The Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) represents a heterogenous group of heritable connective tissue disorders chiefly characterized by joint laxity, increased skin distensibility and connective tissue fragility. Each EDS type corresponds to a multisystemic disorder with widespread implications. Physicians evoke the EDS diagnosis in presence of some typical cutaneous signs, such as atrop...

gence of psychotic symptoms complicates establishing direct links. While most reports have been ecologic studies without confirmed maternal infection, Brown et al. (10) found that 20.4% of persons with a documented in utero exposure to rubella developed an adult schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Experimentally, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection in a neonatal rat model produces some la...

Despite important progress in obstetric and neonatal care hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) during gestation and perinatal period are common causes of neonatal brain damage which are frequently associated with neurodevelopmental disorders, including cerebral palsy, epilepsy, memory deficits, learning disabilities, and other cognitive impairments [1-3]. Incidence is 1 to 2 per 1000 live birt...

The obstetric patient poses exceptional challenges in the intensive care unit. Knowledge of the physiologic changes of pregnancy and specific pregnancy-related disorders is necessary for optimal management. Intensive care unit diagnoses may include preeclampsia, including the HELLP syndrome, pulmonary embolic disease, amniotic fluid embolism, status asthmaticus, respiratory infection, the acute...

BACKGROUND When clinically indicated, common obstetric interventions can greatly improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. However, variation in intervention rates suggests that obstetric practice may not be solely driven by case criteria. METHODS Differences in obstetric intervention rates by private and public status in Ireland were examined using nationally representative hospital discharge ...

Despite the fact that homocysteine was first described in 1932, at present, study of changes synthesis and content this amino acid reveals new mechanisms for disease development. It should be mentioned studies confirming correlation between elevated levels human pathologies (cardiovascular diseases, pregnancy complications, neuropsychiatric disorders) have appeared only recently. This indicates...

Background: Currently, there is little evidence to guide clinical management of pregnancies after stillbirth. Our study aims evaluate the pregnancy outcome in pregnant women with a previous stillbirth, by applying standardized protocol for etiologic investigations and subsequent treatment underlying etiology. Methods: A retrospective cohort on group 100 history occurred single between 2005 2021...

Thrombophilic disorders encompass a diverse group of coagulation disorders that potentiate a predisposition for thrombotic events (e.g. deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism). The term thrombophilia was coined in 1965 following a Norwegian familial study of venous thrombosis [1]. The entity of thrombophilia has also been described as a disorder in which there is abnormally, enhanced coagu...