Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is the most common hematologic abnormality, which a reduction in concentration of erythrocytes or hemoglobin blood pregnancy because requirements increase during pregnancy. Since failure to maintain sufficient levels iron may result adverse maternal-fetal consequences, active counseling and support from medical staff are necessary. Regarding points note treatment, t...

Improving the quality of contraceptive counseling is one strategy to prevent unintended pregnancy. We identify aspects of relational and task-oriented communication in family planning care that can assist providers in meeting their patients' needs. Approaches to optimizing women's experiences of contraceptive counseling include working to develop a close, trusting relationship with patients and...

The clinical management and decision-making in pregnancies in which there is suspicion of lethal fetal malformations during the prenatal period, such as lethal skeletal dysplasia (SD), demand a multidisciplinary approach coordinated by an experienced physician. Based on the presentation of a case of osteogenesis imperfecta type IIA, we offer and discuss recommendations with the intention of org...

Asthma is a chronic disease of the respiratory tract characterized by inflammation, causing clinical symptoms in form episodic wheezing, coughing, and shortness breath chest. Research proves that asthma pregnancy has negative impact during process. Pregnancy with health problem whose prevalence estimated to increase. The 1997-2001 ranged from 3.7-8.4% pregnant women United States disorders are ...

BACKGROUND Preconception counseling (PC) significantly and inexpensively reduces risks of reproductive-health complications for women with diabetes. Our validated technology-based preconception counseling intervention, READY-Girls, is tailored for female teens with type 1 (T1D) and type 2 (T2D) diabetes and targets decision-making regarding effective family planning and seeking PC. Our teen-foc...

We report a retrospective study over the period 1981-1992 of the reproductive histories of 27 women, from 21 families, who were known or possible fragile X carriers. Eighteen women had cytogenetic and DNA linkage studies to establish their carrier risk. They subsequently received definitive carrier status information following the cloning of the gene in 1991. The remaining nine women had cytoge...

A pregnancy contains a fetus, and if the fetus is abnormal the pregnancy is in one sense also abnormal. In this context, a consideration of genetic counselling is apposite to the pathology of pregnancy. Although counselling is not in itself a pathologist's technique, it is becoming increasingly reliant on sophisticated laboratory services, and genetic counsellors are often members of laboratory...