a 28 years’ pregnant woman with 24 weeks’ gestational age referred with petechiae and purpura from previous day without any trauma. she had an occipital headache from last night. overt petechial and purpuric lesions were seen in the mouth and skin. there was neither hepatosplenomegaly nor lymphadenopathy. she was conscious and oriented. the patient was febrile, anemic and thrombocytopenic with ...

stress is the way that our body responds to something that is out of the normal. when we are under stress, our body makes chemical and physical changes to try to maintain it. everyone responds to stressful status in their own way. researches show anxiety and stress during pregnancy can have both immediate and long-term effects on her offspring. in addition, the emotional state of the pregnant m...

this survey assessed predisposing factors of preeclampsia and eclampsia in persons referring to governmental hospitals of hormozgan province. samples of this study were pregnant women who had preeclampsia and eclampsia and also pregnant women who had not preeclampsia and eclampsia (control group) referring to governmental hospitals of hormozgan province from september 1994 to february 1995. all...

adenocarcinoma in situ is one of the premalignant lesions of the cervix and its incidence is believed to be increasing while the pathogenesis of the disease is not clearly understood. management of adenocarcinoma in situ (ais) unlike carcinoma in situ (cis) has not been clearly described in the current literature. here we describe conservative management and serial  olposcopy of two pregnant wo...

introduction: heterotype pregnancy has been defined as coexistence of intrauterine and ectopic pregnancy. coexistence of intrauterine and ovarian pregnancy is rare and often occurs in women who use intra-uterine device (iud) or women under assisted reproductive technology. we report a case who presented abdominal pain and an adenexal mass in ultrasound scanning. post-operative diagnosis was coe...

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is an increasingly reported condition, and physical activity (PA) may play important role. The aim of the present study was to evaluate proportion pregnancy-related LBP its association with type intensity level PA during pregnancy. Methods: A longitudinal prospective carried out a cohort 118 pregnant women. Participants were evaluated in all trimesters. assessed ...

With the aim of describing the predictable pattern of blood pressure (BP) variability during gestation, we analyzed 2430 BP series systematically sampled by ambulatory monitoring for 48 consecutive hours every 4 weeks from the first obstetric visit (usually within the first trimester of pregnancy) until delivery in 235 normotensive women, 128 women who developed gestational hypertension, and 40...

Spontaneous heterotopic pregnancy is a rare clinical condition in which intrauterine and extra uterine pregnancies occur at the same time. It can be a life threatening condition and can be easily missed with the diagnosis being overlooked. We present the case of a 40 year old patient who was treated for a heterotopic pregnancy. She had a transvaginal ultrasound because of a previous ectopic pre...