OBJECTIVE Progesterone-induced blocking factor (PIBF) may be the mediator of the pregnancy maintenance effects of progesterone. The aim of this study is to investigate the potential value of measuring the maternal serum concentration of PIBF at 11-13 weeks' gestation in the prediction of spontaneous early preterm delivery. METHOD The maternal serum concentration of PIBF at 11-13 weeks was mea...

Labour induction and augmentation with Prostaglandin and Oxytocin are well established as standard practice worldwide. They are safe when used judiciously, but may be associated with maternal and neonatal morbidities. Other safer alternatives have been studied including dates consumption during late pregnancy with various outcomes. The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to investigate ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the risk of fetal death (FD) between 34 and 41 weeks' gestational age (GA) with the neonatal mortality rate to examine the best GA for delivery. STUDY DESIGN Linked birth and infant death data for the US from the National Center for Health Statistics analyzed nonanomalous singleton pregnancies between 2003 and 2005. Pregnancies were classified as high risk or low risk bas...

Coordination of fetal maturation with birth timing is essential for mammalian reproduction. In humans, preterm birth is a disorder of profound global health significance. The signals initiating parturition in humans have remained elusive, due to divergence in physiological mechanisms between humans and model organisms typically studied. Because of relatively large human head size and narrow bir...

Objective The aim of this study is to examine how situational abortion attitudes differ when including additional context related the gestational age pregnancy. Method Ordinary Least Squares Regression models predicting across four different sets attitude questions, using data collected from an online panel weighted match U.S. benchmarks. Results Later ages are associated with less support for ...

Fetal reduction is a novel method that aims to reduce higher-order gestation lower-order pregnancy both maternal and perinatal adverse outcomes. One of the methods fetal by intracardiac injection KCl under ultrasound guidance. Here, we present case series eight women who had undergone reduction. All them were trichorionic triamniotic triplets at time In seven women, was done twin gestation, whe...

Circadian rhythms are endogenously generated rhythms with a period length of about 24-hrs. Evidence gathered over the past decade indicates that the circadian timing system develops prenatally and the suprachiasmatic nuclei, the site of a circadian clock, are present by mid-gestation in human and non-human primates. Recent evidence also shows that the circadian system of primate infants is resp...

Objective: To compare the rate of preterm delivery in patients who had an amniocentesis before and after 20 weeks gestation. Study Design: This is a single-center retrospective cohort study of patients referred for specialized sonogram between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2009. Outcomes of patients who underwent amniocentesis at less than 20 0/7 weeks were compared to those who had amniocen...

Objectives  Despite the morbidity associated with late preterm and early-term births, there is limited data on pregnant women's perception of neonatal risk based on gestational age (GA). Therefore, our objective was to determine pregnant women's perception of neonatal risks at varying GAs. Method  Through an anonymous 24-question survey, pregnant women were asked to designate the GA at delivery...