We carried out a case-control study to investigate the role of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including infection with HIV, as risk factors for adverse outcome of pregnancy. Overall, 1507 women were enrolled within 24 h of delivery. Cases (n = 796) were mothers of low-birthweight infants (less than 2500 g) or of stillborns. Low-birthweight infants were divided into preterms (n = 373) and...

Background: In order to achieve the target of having a healthy mother and baby there is need identify pregnant woman with high risk factors.Ante natal foetal monitoring aimed at identifying foetus that are suffering from intrauterine hypoxia. Aims Objectives: To evaluate role modified biophysical profile in predicting perinatal outcome women Material methods: This hospital based observational s...

Diabetes concurrent with pregnancy is a high risk condition and is associated with an increased risk of prenatal mortality. Stillbirth is defined as fetal death after 20 weeks of gestation. Other terms for stillbirths include fetal death, intrauterine fetal death, fetal demise, intrauterine fetal demise. Stillbirth rate is 4-6 times and neonatal mortality is 2-4 times higher in diabetic than in...

risk of HDFN, which can cause fetal anemia, hydrops, and intrauterine fetal death. Babies born with HDFN are at significant risk of neonatal morbidity and mortality [1,2]. Prenatal detection of the fetal RhD status in a pregnant woman with RhD-negative provides useful information for predicting the risk of HDFN and Noninvasive fetal RHD genotyping using cell-free fetal DNA incorporating fetal R...

Introduction: Monochorionic twin pregnancies come with substantially higher complications compared to their dichorionic counterparts, which include intrauterine fetal death, fetal loss prior to 24 weeks, selective intrauterine growth restriction and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Objectives: This work aims to examine the inter-twin discrepancy in nuchal translucency thickness (NT), c...

Fetal intestinal volvulus without malrotation is a rare, life-threatening disease. Left untreated, hemorrhage from necrotic bowel tissue will lead to severe fetal anemia and even intrauterine death. We encountered a case of fetal intestinal volvulus causing severe anemia, which was diagnosed postnatally and successfully treated with surgical intervention.

Objective: To Study the Relationship between Maternal Hemoglobin and Perinatal outcome in a cohort of 860 pregnant women and to highlight the importance of antenatal care regarding maternal health and fetal outcome. Methods: All Singleton pregnancies delivering at Pakistan Railway Hospital Rawalpindi from January 2004 to December 2005 that fulfilled the required criteria were included. Results:...