OBJECTIVETo determine the pregnaflcy outcome with letrozole as an ovulation inducing agent in infertile pa tients. METHOD A Randomized clinical trial was conducted on 250infertile patients attending the outpatient department. Letrozole wa s administered as 5 mg tablets from day 3 to 7 of menstruation after a preliminary day 2 LH level and baseline ultrasound. RESULTS Letrozole given alone had a...

To determine whether a previous pelvic infection has an effect on the outcome of a subsequent pregnancy, we identified women with a diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), amnionitis, and postpartum or postabortal endometritis-salpingitis by a retrospective chart review of all patients admitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Cente...

OBJECTIVE To determine maternal outcome as antenatal and postnatal complications and neonatal outcome as birth weight, morbidity and mortality in triplet gestation. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Mother and Child Health (MCH) Centre, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad from May 2000 to April 2006. PATIENTS AND METHODS All the patients with trip...

Mousa and Alfirevic (2000) recently reported on the relationship between histological placental lesions and throm-bophilia status in women with adverse pregnancy outcomes. Their results are interesting (with apparently thorough thrombophilia testing performed), but their conclusion, that the results do not support an association between thrombophilias and adverse pregnancy outcome, is misleadin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate pregnancy complications occurring after age 50. METHODS We compared the pregnancy outcomes of women aged 50-64 years with those aged 45-49 years and with the general population. RESULTS During 5 years from January 1, 1999, to June 30, 2004, 123 women aged 45 years and older gave birth. Fifty-five percent were nulliparous, 24 of 123 were aged 50-64 years, and 99 of 123 ...

Findings from a survey of 56,067 women in Montreal on maternal occupation and pregnancy outcome have been reported. Paternal occupation recorded in the same survey was analysed for spontaneous abortion in 24 occupational groups retaining the six main sectors of maternal occupation and allowing, by means of logistic regression, for seven potentially confounding variables. In only one of the 24 f...

Congenital and acquired thrombophilias are the most common predisposing factors for thromboembolism, but they may also contribute to pathophysiological processes involved in recurrent pregnancy loss, fetal death, intrauterine growth restriction, placental abruption, placental infarction, and pre-eclampsia. The most common thrombophilias are deficiencies of antithrombin III, protein C, and prote...

background: although intrauterine insemination (iui) is one of the most common methods which is used for male factor and unexplained infertility the relative influence of various semen parameters on the likelihood of a successful outcome is controversial. several semen parameters have been evaluated as predictors of a successful outcome with intrauterine insemination. objective: to evaluate the...

a bstract background: non‑medical utilization of pre‑implantation genetic diagnosis (pgd), like sex selection, is increasing, therefore it is necessary to follow‑up the health and outcome of fertilization and newborn’s birth followed pgd. the aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of fertilization after sex selection by pgd and the relation between the age of parents and the outcome of f...