OBJECTIVE Evaluation of the relationship between umbilical coiling index (UCI) and adverse perinatal outcome. METHOD A prospective study was performed on 699 pregnant women who were 37-40 weeks. UCI was determined by dividing the total number of the complete vascular coiling by the total umbilical cord length in centimeters. Then the relationship between UCI and neonatal weight, amniotic flui...

Non-invasive diagnosis of fetal lung immaturity. Ultrasound gray level histogram width (GLHW) tissue characterization was studied in fetal lung. GLHW ratio of fetal lung and liver was multiplied by gestational weeks, and fetal lung immaturity was diagnosed, if the product was less than 29. Ninety six per cent of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) was predicted noninvasively in immatur...

A number of methods of the qualitative assessment of fetal heart rate (FHR) signals are based on supervised learning. The classification methods based on the supervised learning require a set of training recordings accompanied by the reference interpretation. In the real data collections the class of signals related to fetal distress is usually under-represented. Too small percentage of distres...

We report a case of acute myocardial infarction caused by multiple coronary artery dissections in a pregnant woman at term. When reinfarction elicited fetal distress, Caesarean section was performed under carefully administered extradural anaesthesia, with maternal and fetal survival.

Background: Oligohydramnios has increased incidence of meconium stained liquor, abnormal FHR tracing, low Apgar score, low birth weight, admission to NICU, birth asphyxia and cesarean section for fetal distress. Objective: To compare the perinatal outcome in women with singleton term pregnancies having amniotic fluid index (AFI) < 5cm to those having AFI between 6 to 20 cm. Material and methods...

Objective: To correlate clinical variables (gestational age, severe pregnancy-induced hypertension, gestational diabetes mellitus, history of previous cesarean sections, fetal distress, perinatal mortality , postpartum anemia, Apgar score-<3 at 1 minute and-<7 at 5 minutes, and instrumental delivery) with postpartum endometritis (PPE) and wound infection. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional st...

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...