AIM To investigate risk factors for early preterm birth. METHODS AND MATERIAL A retrospective comparative study was conducted at Tabuk, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the period from January to December 2010. Five hundred and ninety-five patient's files and delivery registry logbooks were reviewed, the following information was collected; demographic data, current and past obstetric histories...

Background: Episiotomy is a common perineum incision preformed to facilitate the delivery. Although it was commonly performed especially in primigravida women, the new trend is to limit episiotomies as much as possible. This study aimed to find out the rate of episiotomy and to compare the rate in primigravida vs multigravida at King Abdulaziz university hospital. Methods: A retrospective chart...

The aims of Ballantyne's first book on promaternity (antenatal) care were: * The antenatal diagnosis of monsters * The treatment of monsters * The prevention of fits. The last concerns eclampsia, so care has been concerned with eclampsia from the earliest days. One of the original aims of promaternity care in 1901 was the prevention of fits and convulsions due to eclampsia, which was often asso...

Women during pregnancy are more prone to severe attacks of malaria, which may result in to abortion, premature labour or still birth. Malaria alters the course of pregnancy by affecting the health of the mother and by interrupting the pregnancy. The most important influence of the disease on maternal health in pregnancy is indirect, by causing anemia. This prospective observational study was ca...

Introduction: Finding the factors affecting patients’ tendency to a hospital, can improve the health system. The purpose of this study was to recognize the factors affecting primigravidas’ preferences to select a public hospital, in order to determine the correlation on these preferences. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 220 p...

OBJECTIVE To compare treatment and protection against falciparum malaria in pregnant and non-pregnant women with three drug regimens. DESIGN Prospective intervention study with six weeks' follow up. Patients received one of three drug regimens in order of entry. SETTING Primary care hospital and secondary girls' school in rural western Kenya. PATIENTS 158 of 988 pregnant women (89 primigr...