BACKGROUND Routine and continuous electronic monitoring of foetal heart rate (FHR) in labour has become an established obstetric practice in high-risk pregnancies in industrialised countries. However, the same may not be possible in non-industrialised countries where antenatal care is inadequate with a large number of high-risk pregnancies being delivered in crowded settings and inadequate heal...

BACKGROUND Leiomyoma, myoma, leiomyoma or fibroids are synonymous terms. They may be present in as many as 1 in 5 women over age 35 years. If pregnancy is associated with fibroids, it leads to multiple complications. Objectives of this study were to evaluate the maternal and foetal outcome in women having pregnancy with fibroids in uterus and the complications associated with fibroids during th...

Case Reprts Cae 1. R.T. was born on July 29, 1947, of healthy parents. On July 18, 1947, antenatalexaminationshowed that the foetal heart was slow andiregular. Amurmurwas audible and it was thought to be a ' funic souffle.' The irregular pulse was interpreted as evidence of foetal dises, and on July 26, 1947, the membranes werepunctured to induce labour. The child was born three days later afte...

Alternative splicing (AS) drives determinative changes during mouse heart development. Recent high-throughput technological advancements have facilitated genome-wide AS, while its analysis in human foetal heart transition to the adult stage has not been reported. Here, we present a high-resolution global analysis of AS transitions between human foetal and adult hearts. RNA-sequencing data showe...

Diabetes in pregnancy starts affecting the foetus even in the pre-conception period. The complications encountered in third trimester are foetal macrosomia and intrauterine foetal demise; birth of a macrosomic baby further leads to shoulder dystocia, birth trauma, brachial plexus injury. Additionally, pregnancies with overt/pregestational diabetes may be complicated with foetal growth restricti...

Environmental factors are implicated in increased incidence of human testicular germ-cell cancer (TGCC). TGCC has foetal origins and may be one component of a testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS). Certain phthalates induce TDS in rats, including effects on foetal germ cells (GC). As humans are widely exposed to phthalates, study of the effects of phthalates on foetal rat GC could provide an ins...

In previous studies we have shown that transferrin (Tf) specifically stimulates dermatan- and chondroitin-sulphate proteoglycan accumulation around lung cells, and in the extracellular matrix of lung tissue, in vitro. The aim of this study was to determine whether the gene for Tf was activated in specific lung cells during development, and whether the protein product showed evidence of associat...

process. 1. The Foetal Electrocardiogram: The examination of the FECG by the traditional methods of cardiology have proved very disappointing and unrewarding. If, however, the FECG is merely used as a means of recording the beat-to-beat interval of the foetal heart, statistical evaluation of this information can yield a valuable prognostic index. 2. The Foetal Ballistocardiogram: The purpose of...

In 1941 Levine and his colleagues postulated that the way in which Rh sensitization occurred in Rh negative mothers was by transplacental passage of Rh-positive foetal erythrocytes into the maternal circulation. At that time there were no available tech' niques for proving this hypothesis, and it was not known when the foetal cells entered the maternal circulation, nor how much foetal blood was...