In this longitudinal prospective observational study performed at a tertiary perinatal referral centre, we aimed to assess maternal distress in pregnancy in women with ultrasound findings of fetal anomaly and compare this with distress in pregnant women with normal ultrasound findings. Pregnant women with a structural fetal anomaly (n = 48) and normal ultrasound (n = 105) were included. We admi...

background: alcohol is a potent teratogen and alcohol use in pregnancy and the periconception period can cause many complications in mother, fetus and neonate.  discussion: alcohol in the mother's blood passes through the placenta to the baby through the umbilical cord. drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, and a range of lifelong disorders. alcohol-related birth ...

Hypertensive disorders complicating pregnancy(HDCP)is a pregnancy-specific disease. It often occurs after 20 weeks and the incidence was 9.4% in our country while 7% -12% [1] in the foreign reports. Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy is a great harm for maternals which can seriously damage the heart, brain, kidney and other organs of pregnant woman [2,3] and the incidence of premature children...

Maternal mental disorders over pregnancy show a clear influence on child development. This review is focused on the possible mechanisms by which maternal mental disorders influence fetal development via programming effects. This field is complex since mental health symptoms during pregnancy vary in type, timing and severity and maternal psychological distress is often accompanied by higher rate...

and FT4. Pregnant women were classified by hormone status into percentile categories based on laboratory assay and were compared accordingly. The authors found that OH was associated with increased fetal loss, low birth weight and congenital circulation system malformations. SCH was associated with increased fetal distress, preterm delivery, poor vision development and neurodevelopmental delay....

background: pregnancy has a huge impact on the thyroid function in both healthy women and those that have thyroid dysfunction. the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in pregnant women is relatively high. objective: the objective of this review was to increase awareness and to provide a review on adverse effect of thyroid dysfunction including hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism and thyroid autoimmun...

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...

Non-reassuring fetal status is a term used to describe suspected etal hypoxia and is meant to replace the more ubiquitous term fetal distress.” Fetal distress, defined as progressive fetal hypoxia nd/or acidemia secondary to inadequate fetal oxygenation, is a erm that is used to indicate changes in fetal heart patterns, reduced etal movement, fetal growth restriction, and presence of mecoium st...

background: morbidity and mortality of preterm babies are important issues in perinatal medicine. in developed countries, preterm delivery is the cause of about 70% of mortality and 75% of morbidity in the neonatal period, respectively. objective: the aim of this study was to determine the risk factors for preterm labor and the outcomes, in terms of perinatal mortality and morbidity at the time...