Background: Despite the advances in contraceptive technologies, still unintended pregnancies are adding to global health issues. The placement of a device, such as an intrauterine device (IUD) or implant, immediately after childbirth is termed long-acting reversible contraceptives LARC. Study design: It retrospective study conducted at Lady Willingdon Hospital Lahore and Divisional Headquarters...

A 21-year-old lady, primipara presented with breathlessness on exertion and generalized swelling of three weeks duration. Clinical examination revealed anasarca and features of cardiac failure. After evaluation, a diagnosis of peripartum cardiomyopathy was established based on echocardiographic findings of dilated cardiac chambers and poor left ventricular function. She responded well to treatm...

Objective: This study as a experimentals research, was planned to determine of effects of musical thearpy and labor education at first pregnancy with induction. Methods: The study has been carried out at the largest obstetrics and childhood diseases hospital that in the Anatolian coast of İstanbul from July 2005 to July 2006. There subjects included total of 80 pregnants, half of pregnants were...

*北 畠隆 ,佐 藤 俊郎:新 潟大学医学部放射線医学教室,新 潟市旭町1,〒951 **竹 内正七:新 潟大学 医学部産科婦人科学教室,新 潟市旭町1,〒951 Frequency of prenatal X-ray examination in 1,701 parturient women was surveyed in 19 Japanese hospitals in 1974. Of 1,701 women, 470 or 27.6% have received maternal X-ray examination during the pregnant period. There is no significant difference in frequency of prenatal X-rays between in the primipara and multipar...