ackground: The use of antidepressants during pregnancy continues to garner considerable attention, though there are limited nvestigations that have sought to quantify fetal exposure. ethods: Maternal and umbilical cord sera were collected at delivery from ten women taking nortriptyline and seven taking lomipramine. Placental passage was calculated as the ratio of umbilical cord to maternal seru...

Pregnancy is hypercoagulable state. The field of thrombophilia; the tendency to thrombosis, has been developed rapidly and has been linked to many aspects of pregnancy. It is recently that severe pregnancy complications such as severe preeclampsia, intrauterine growth retardation, abruptio placentae and stillbirth has been shown to be associated with thrombophilia. Recurrent miscarriage has als...

Implantation, trophoblast development and placentation are crucial processes in the establishment and development of normal pregnancy. Abnormalities of these processes can lead to pregnancy complications known as the great obstetrical syndromes: preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, fetal demise, premature prelabor rupture of membranes, preterm labor, and recurrent pregnancy loss. Ther...

Introduction Gut prolapse through vagina is rare complication with only few cases reported in the literature. This article highlights untrained professionals induced obstetrical trauma as a cause of vaginal evisceration leading to serious but preventable complications. Presentation of Case Case 1: A 27 years old female, P2L0, had full term vaginal delivery of an IUD baby and presented 4 days ...

In Nepal, maternal mortality has decreased from 539/100000 live births in 1998 to 229 in 2008/2009.4 Exploration of severe maternal morbidity is required to identify deficiency and strengths of obstetrical services. The obstetrics morbidity results from obstetric complications of pregnancy, labour and puerperium. The recognition of signs, symptoms and severity of illness, antenatal and postnata...

Objectives: To analyze the impact of medical correction labor weakness with oxytocin on obstetric and newborn complications.Materials methods. 100 cases childbirth activity (main group) 50 without (control were analyzed. The analysis included pregnancy histories mothers aged 20–32 years a gestation period 37– 41 weeks uncomplicated pregnancies, significant somatic obstetric-gynecological pathol...

was my difficulty, and though I have chosen Caesarean section, I know that my experience is so small compared with yours. Obstetrical complications are rare in the country as compared with towns, but I have had ten cases in which it was necessary to do Caesarean section, and of these ten there were seven different types necessitating operation. These were all, except for two, urgent cases, and ...

The potent and now longstanding evidence of the association between placentation-related disorders and cardiovascular disease should be translated into clinical practice in order to introduce a preventive approach to future obstetric and cardiovascular diseases. The purpose of this review is to integrate cardiovascular risk/disease and obstetric complications, which are linked by endothelial dy...