ABSTRACT Background: To compare pregnancy outcomes in women at risk for cervical incompetence after elective versus ultrasound- indicated cerclage. Methods: In a prospective randomized tlial, singleton pregnancies with at least one previous spontaneous midtrimester loss or early preterm delivery (between 15 and 32 weeks' gestation) who met clinical crite1ia for the diagnosis of cervical incomp...

The worldwide use of the transvaginal scanning route has revolutionized obstetrical and gynecologic imaging. The long, slow, and at times challenging aspects of its acceptance by the obstetrical and gynecologic community are the subject of this article. From its inception to its recent use, the dedicated doctors in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Isr...

Transabdominal gynecologic ultrasound combined with transvaginal scanning is a technique that was initially introduced in the early 1980’s and quickly became a “musthave” procedure for gynecologists and emergency room physicians for assistance in diagnosing many gynecologic conditions. Rapid advances in the quality of the equipment, techniques used to obtain best images, and research designed t...

OBJECTIVE To establish the relation between cervical length at 23 weeks of gestation in twin pregnancies and risk of spontaneous delivery before 33 weeks. METHODS Cervical length was measured by transvaginal sonography at 23 (range 22-24) weeks of gestation in 464 twin pregnancies attending for routine antenatal care. In the patients who were managed expectantly the relation between cervical ...

AIM To compare transvaginal digital examination performed by residents and attending physicians to transabdominal suprapubic ultrasound in the evaluation of fetal head position in the second stage of labor. METHODS A prospective study was conducted at a tertiary center and included pregnant women at term, with normal singleton cephalic presentation fetuses. All patients had ruptured membranes...

INTRODUCTION This study evaluated California's traffic violator school (TVS) citation dismissal policy. METHOD This study identified and compared two large samples of drivers either completing a TVS (N=210,015) or convicted of a traffic citation (N=168,563). RESULTS Prior to adjudication, the TVS group had characteristics (e.g., lower prior conviction rate and smaller proportion of males) t...

"Tubulofilamentous particles" has been defined as "thick" tubules, apparently distinguishable from other cytoskeletal elements, in touch-preparations from scrapie- and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)-infected brains. I report here that "tubulofilamentous particles" are nonspecific findings unrelated to "tubulovesicular structures" (TVS) which are the only particles consistently observed in brai...

Ultrasound examination has become the “golden standard” in follow-up of the development and complications in early pregnancy. With introduction of transvaginal sonography a possibility for early morphological and biometrical ultrasound examinations has been significantly improved. The essential aim of an early pregnancy ultrasound is not only to diagnose a pregnancy, but also to differentiate b...

In this study the optimization of the biogas yield from anaerobic co-digestion of manures and energy crops was carried out using four pilot scale CSTRs under different operating conditions. The effect on biogas yield of the partial substitution of energy crops with agro-waste was also investigated. For each substrate used during the continuous trials, BMP batch assays were also carried out to v...