adnexal tumors (ats) are primary skin tumors with benign or rarely, malignant behavior. they have been classified based on differentiation towards hair follicle, sebaceous, apocrine or eccrine gland. few large-scale studies have focused on ats. to determine the prevalence of ats and to assess clinical and histopathological trend of ats. a retrospective descriptive study of all ats diagnosed in ...

This study investigated the relation between self-reported vaginal bleeding during pregnancy and preterm birth in a prospective cohort of 2,829 pregnant women enrolled from prenatal clinics between 1995 and 2000 in central North Carolina. The overall association between vaginal bleeding and preterm birth was modest (risk ratio (RR) = 1.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1, 1.6). Bleeding in the...

background: preterm labor is the leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality so it may be necessary to administer tocolytics for treatment of it. objective: the aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of magnesium sulfate and nifedipine in the management of preterm labor. materials and methods: 100 women with documented preterm labor were randomly assigned to receive magnes...

background:   objective: present study was conducted to determine prevalence and risk factors associated with preterm birth in ardabil, iran.   materials and methods: a case control study was conducted between nov 2010 and july 2011 in all three maternal hospitals in ardabil. all the live newborns during the study period were investigated. of 6705 live births during the study period 346 births ...

regarding to prevalence of preterm labor and its consequences, there are different reports on relationship between bacterial vaginosis and preterm labor. this study was performed to evaluate the effect of metronidazole therapy on preterm labor in women with bacterial vaginosis. this randomized clinical trial was performed on 120 women suffering from bacterial vaginosis at 20-34 weeks of pregnan...

background: there is an assumption that fetus with restricted growth with an inappropriate intrauterine environment lies under stress. although small-for-gestational-age (sga) infants have higher mortality, difference in the outcome of sga and appropriate-for-gestational-age (aga) infants regarding respiratory morbidity is controversial. it seems that respiratory morbidities in sga neonates is ...

preterm birth means the birth before thirty seven week of pregnancy that causes a lot of complications for the baby. variety factors are suggested to be involved in disease. in this study, we decided to evaluate haptoglobin (hp) phenotypes association with clinical features of patients suffered from premature delivery to understand better the possible correlation of genetic and clinical feature...

conclusions pregnancies complicated by rls are at increased risk for preterm birth. the improved sleep health of pregnant women could decrease pregnancy complications. results rls complicated 43.7 percent of pregnancies. sleepiness (ess score > 8) was reported in 36.4% of the subjects with preterm birth and 35.9% of the term group. no significant correlation was found between the ess score and ...

background: prenatal care is performed in order to diagnose high risk cases. researchers have shown the significant relationship between high serum ferritin levels and preterm delivery. preterm labors are one of the major risk factors in prediction of preterm delivery. hence we performed this study in order to determine the frequency distribution of serum ferritin level and the relationship bet...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether sonographically measured cervical length is an effective predictive tool in women with threatened preterm labor and a history of past spontaneous preterm delivery. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of all women with singleton pregnancies who presented with preterm labor at less than 34 + 0 weeks' gestation and underwent sonographic measurement of cer...