OBJECTIVE To compare the incidences of preterm delivery, cervical incompetence treated by cerclage, placental implantation or retention problems (ie, placenta praevia, placental abruption and retained placenta) and postpartum haemorrhage between women with and without a history of pregnancy termination. DESIGN  A retrospective cohort study using aggregated data from a national perinatal regis...

Introduction. To report the robotic-assisted abdominal cerclage performed in two nonpregnant women and the success of live birth outcomes. Presentation of Cases. A 36-year-old woman with a complaint of recurrent second trimester pregnancy losses and a 35-year-old patient with a complaint of preterm deliveries and cervical insufficiency underwent robotic assisted abdominal cervicoisthmic cerclag...

A thirty-nine year old woman with history of infertility was admitted at the 14 week of gestation complaining of acute abdominal pain. Ultrasound revealed a large intramural fibroid bulging into the uterine cavity showing signs of degeneration. It was pressing on the gestational sac with a normal intrauterine pregnancy. The internal cervical os was funneling indicating incompetence of the inter...

Prevention of spontaneous preterm birth is an important public health priority. Pessary may be a potential therapy in cases of cervical insufficiency, in singleton and multiple gestations. Availability of transvaginal sonography for accurate assessment of cervical length is allowing for the tailoring of therapy to a more specific subset of patients who may benefit from this treatment. Pessary t...

We have investigated GnRH immunization for the treatment of urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence in ovariectomized bitches. It has been reported that decreasing LH secretion through the use of GnRH agonists temporarily restores continence in some bitches. Therefore, decreasing the circulating LH concentrations by immunizing against GnRH might temporarily maintain continence in incontinent ...

BACKGROUND Cervical incompetence is an important cause of miscarriage and premature birth and polycystic ovary syndrome is a heterogeneous endocrine disorder that is the most common cause of anovulatory infertility and eugonadotrophic hypogonadism. By now, it is still debated whether women with PCOS have an increased risk of miscarriage and there have been no studies about the pregnancy outcome...

Total number of abortions: 30,699.  60% of abortions were criminal and the re- mainder were due to:  (a)Cervical incompetence  (b) hypothyr oidism (c) Listeriosis (d) Toxoplasmosis (e) Luteal phase deficiency (f) Placental deficiency Mg) Rh and ABO incompatibility and unknown etiology.  Therapeutic abortions were also performed in several cases due to:  (a) Miliary tube...

BACKGROUND Prematurity is the most common cause of neonatal death. Risk factors of premature birth can be related with ethnicity and genetic. There is no comprehensive high sample size study in Kurdish ethnicity to determine risk factors related to prematurity. This study evaluated risk factors of preterm labor in Kurdish ethnicity. METHODS This case-control study was conducted in 200 preterm...