The placental adhesive disorders such as placenta accreta and placenta percreta are the rare causes of serious obstetric hemorrhages. They are associated with high maternal morbidity and mortality. Placenta percreta is usually diagnosed in the third trimester of pregnancy as a massive postpartum hemorrhage when an attempt to remove the placenta reveals lack of a cleavage plane. Here we report a...

Background and aim: Horseshoe placenta is a variant of ring-shaped placenta. Ring-shaped placenta is a rare anomaly seen in fewer than 1 in 6000 deliveries, which could be seen as horseshoe shape due to atrophy in a portion of the ring. This report refers to a possible relationship between the horseshoe shape placenta and preterm labor; although it has not been yet validated in the literature. ...

INTRODUCTION Regarding to the recent advances in assisted reproductive techniques (ART), twin and multiple pregnancies have increased during past years. OBJECTIVE This study was performed to compare obstetrics and perinatal outcomes of dichorionic twin pregnancy following ART with spontaneous pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study which was performed in Ghaem Hospita...

BACKGROUND Assisted reproduction (ART) contributes to world-wide increases of twin pregnancies, in turn raising prematurity risks. Whether characteristics of ART cycles, resulting in twin gestations, can predict prematurity risks was the subject of this study. METHODS One-hundred-and-six women, ages 20 to 39 years, with consecutive dichorionic-diamniotic (DC/DA) twin gestations were retrospec...

OBJECTIVE The present study aims to analyze perinatal outcomes in twins given special care during pregnancy and labor and to compare fetal and neonatal outcomes in dichorionic twins with monochorionic twins. STUDY DESIGN Eighty eight (88) twin pregnancies booked for care at a tertiary care Fetal Medicine centre were included in this study. The maternal demographic variables, course of pregnan...

OBJECTIVE To study the outcome of 20 twin pregnancies with evidence of primary or recurrent cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during pregnancy. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING Two tertiary perinatal departments in Israel. POPULATION Twenty women with twin pregnancies who were referred because of serologic investigation indicating CMV infection. Seventeen women had evidence of primary CM...

background: placenta accreta is a rare obstetrical condition that mainly occurs in the third trimester leading to life-threatening complications. hereby, a case of uterine rupture due to placenta accreta occuring in the second trimester is presented. case presentation: a forty-year old patient who conceived after in vitro fertilization treatment (oocyte donation and embryo transfer) presented i...

objective: carthamus tinctorius l. (safflower) is a member of the asteraceae family which is used as a food additive but also has medicinal applications. this study investigated its effects on placental histomorphology and survival of mice neonates. materials and methods: eighty balb/c pregnant mice were randomly distributed into one control and three experimental groups (n=20). the control gro...