Limit of viability in Japan: ethical consideration.

abstract：:An infant is reported who was identified antenatally to have an extralobar sequestration and a pleural effusion. Chronic drainage of the effusion was achieved by placement of a pleuroamniotic shunt. After delivery the infant underwent several thoracocenteses and then definitive surgery to remove an extralobar sequestr...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Chan V,Greenough A,Nicolaides KN

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To discover the potential role of recombinant VEGF121 (rVEGF121) injection for the prevention of fetal growth restriction in a preeclampsia (PE) mouse model (Mus musculus). SUBJECTS AND METHODS:This is an experimental study of 30 pregnant mice that were randomly divided into three groups: normal, PE, and PE with r...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Sulistyowati S,Bachnas MA,Anggraini ND,Yuliantara EE,Prabowo W,Anggraini NW,Pramono MB,Adityawarman,Dachlan EG,Andonotopo W

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subpartal and neonatal blood gas analyses have attracted increasing interest during the past 20 years. Different studies have been carried out to investigate the causes and immediate consequences of perinatal acidosis. It was the aim of this study to examine the long term outcome of acidotic-born babies. During 16 con...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Lauener PA,Calame A,Janecek P,Bossart H,Monod JF

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the population-based trend for cesarean births in twin pregnancies for the last 13 years in Slovenia, and to find correlates for this trend. METHODS:We evaluated data from the Slovenian national perinatal information system (NPIS) of all twin pairs born at ≥24 weeks during the period 1997-2009 (n=...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Tul N,Verdenik I,Trojner-Bregar A,Novak Ž,Blickstein I

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate uterine cervical consistency using a vaginal ultrasound gray-level histogram. METHODS:Vaginal ultrasound and digital examination were performed for 214 women with low-risk singleton pregnancy during 27-30(th) pregnancy week. The mean gray-level (MGL) of an ultrasound gray-level histogram, representing...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Kuwata T,Matsubara S,Taniguchi N,Ohkuchi A,Ohkusa T,Suzuki M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the proportion of iatrogenic births among all preterm births over a 26-year period. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A registry-based survey of preterm deliveries between 1987 and 2012 analyzed by the onset of labor: spontaneous with intact membranes, preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) or iatrogen...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Lucovnik M,Bregar AT,Steblovnik L,Verdenik I,Gersak K,Blickstein I,Tul N

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer program was developed for the IBM PC computer to be used for maternal serum alpha fetoprotein screening (MSAFP). This program, written in BASIC, 1) maintains a data base for patients tested, 2) allows input and storage of MSAFP results, 3) calculates the gestational age dependent result in multiple of the m...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Keel BA,Durfee KK,Cho S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2nd born in twin delivery is at higher risk of fetal asphyxia. We tested the hypothesis that inadequate, fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring has contributed to an inadvertent outcome. STUDY DESIGN:A database was reviewed consisting of 41 twin deliveries with a pH in the umbilical artery of the 2nd twin be...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Muñoz Brands RM,Bakker PC,Bolte AC,van Geijn HP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-one pregnant women divided into three groups (AGA prepartum, SGA prepartum without distress, AGA in labor) were examined using Doppler ultrasonography before, during and after oxygen administration to mothers via a face mask. The aim of the study was to find out if there was any effect on the blood flow values ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Meyenburg M,Bartnicki J,Saling E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current approaches to the detection of patients at risk for preterm delivery (PTD) have focused on the diagnosis of preterm labor. However, these approaches are complicated by treatment biases and our inability to convincingly differentiate preterm labor from Braxton-Hicks contractions. Moreover, preterm labor with in...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Lockwood CJ,Dudenhausen JW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal nutrition may be one of the most important under-evaluated factors contributing to the contemporary rise in prematurity in the United States and other industrialized nations around the world. Slowed fetal growth has been repeatedly shown to be associated with preterm birth, in both singleton and twin pregnanc...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Luke B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Frauenfeld Clinic for Obstetrics and Gynecology introduced waterbirths in 1991. This work examines whether guidelines for water temperature and bathing are actually necessary. METHODS:This 8-year prospective clinical study follows 10,775 births in a regional women's hospital (non-selected population). N...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Geissbuehler V,Eberhard J,Lebrecht A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews data that support the effectiveness of the French approach of using risk scoring for evaluating the risk of preterm delivery. This approach, which was developed in 1969 and spread to obstetricians and midwives throughout France in the early 1970s, includes systematic information about the recognitio...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Papiernik E,Grangé G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra-arterial blood pressure measurements recorded during the first week of life in 32 stable very low birth weight infants (20 of birth weight up to 1250 g and 12 with birth weight 1251-1500 g) were reviewed. None of the infants received inotropic drugs or were given infusions of colloids to manipulate the blood pre...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Shortland DB,Evans DH,Levene MI

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare oxidative stress in patients with preeclampsia (PE) or intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) vs. normal pregnancy (controls) during 48 h after delivery. STUDY DESIGN:Women with singleton pregnancies were recruited immediately after delivery (gestational age >26.0 weeks). Women with PE or IUGR were matc...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Kressig P,Beinder E,Schweer H,Zimmermann R,von Mandach U

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood flow pattern in the common umbilical vein is under normal conditions nonpulsatile in contrast to the flow in the fetal inferior vena cava. We observed pulsatile flow patterns in the common umbilical vein of fetal lambs during changes in the fetal hemodynamic equilibrium. These pulsations may influence the mi...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Hasaart TH,de Haan J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single dose pharmacokinetics of 75 mg aspirin was investigated in two groups of ten women with clinically normal pregnancies. Eleven non-pregnant subjects in the same age were controls. In group A, gestational age was 27-30 completed weeks, and in group B, 36-39 weeks. Venous blood samples were taken before and up to ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Rymark P,Berntorp E,Nordsjö P,Liedholm H,Melander A,Gennser G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous tests have been proposed for the assessment of fetal condition during the antenatal period. This preliminary report suggests the possibility of exposing the fetus-in-utero to alternating light during amnioscopy, with simultaneous registration of the fetal heart rate. This simple, non-invasive, inexpensive tes...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Peleg D,Goldman JA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In present-day obstetrics, cesarean delivery occurs in one in three women in the United States, and in up to four of five women in some regions of the world. The history of cesarean section extends well over four centuries. Up until the end of the nineteenth century, the operation was avoided because of its high morta...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Antoine C,Young BK

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined the causes of death amongst full term stillbirths and early neonatal deaths. METHODS:Our cohort includes women in the Region of Southern Denmark, who gave birth at full term to a stillborn infant or a neonate who died within the first 7 days from 2010 through 2014. Demographic, biometric and clin...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Basu MN,Johnsen IBG,Wehberg S,Sørensen RG,Barington T,Nørgård BM

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dextrostix is now widely used as a method of screening for hypoglycemia of the newborn. There has always been some anxiety about its accuracy for estimating very low blood sugars; this is important, since symptomatic hypoglycemia of the newborn does not usually occur until the blood glucose falls below 20 mg/dl. In 19...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Harvey DR,Cooper LV,Fancourt RF,Levene M,Schoberg T

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during pregnancy is usually transmural and occurs in late pregnancy with a peak incidence during the peripartum or postpartum periods. We report a pregnancy-related AMI, which occurring as early as the first trimester, was treated conservatively with antithrombotic and anti-ischemic d...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Stefanovic V,Ulander VM,Graner M,Kupari M,Kaaja R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C. reactive protein (CRP) estimations were performed prospectively on 30 consecutive admissions of very low birth weight infants to a Regional neonatal intensive care unit. The samples were analysed by a recently described, rapid intralipid agglutination assay and by a reference turbidimetric technique. Two hundred an...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Shortland DB,MacFadyen U,Elston A,Harrison G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective To derive and validate a population-specific multivariate approach for birth weight (BW) prediction based on quantitative intrapartum assessment of maternal characteristics by means of an algorithmic method in low-risk women. Methods The derivation part (n = 200) prospectively explored 10 variables to create...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Yapan P,Promchirachote C,Yaiyiam C,Rahman S,Pooliam J,Wataganara T

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnostic ultrasound has been used for many years with a remarkable history of safety during the standard clinical practice. Introduction of color and pulsed Doppler modes resulted with higher levels of transmitted and absorbed ultrasonic energy. This fact raised the question for the safety of its use in early pregna...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Kurjak A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new design of vacuum extractor cup--'the New Generation cup'--has recently been introduced into clinical practice. Its major modification is a traction cord which passes around the rim of the cup for 180 degrees and is free to slide within the rim. Claims that this design 'enables the operator to pull obliquely with...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Carmody F,Grant A,Somchiwong M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We compared a non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) to Doppler cardiotocogram (CTG) during the 1(st) stage of labor. STUDY DESIGN:This was a prospective observational study of non-invasive fECG using five abdominal electrodes and one Doppler ultrasound probe in 27 patients. Data were analyzed for relia...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Reinhard J,Hayes-Gill BR,Yi Q,Hatzmann H,Schiermeier S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify cardiotocography (CTG) patterns associated with increased risk of intrapartum fetal acidemia. METHODS:A prospective observational cohort study of 1070 women with fetal scalp blood sampling (FBS) during labor was conducted at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. Women with a nonreassuring ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Holzmann M,Wretler S,Cnattingius S,Nordström L

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if oxytocin dosage used for labor induction differed in obese and lean women, we analyzed records of patients who underwent term labor induction and delivered vaginally. Each of a cohort of 27 patients with a body mass index (BMI) >40 kg/m2 was matched with a patient with a BMI <28 kg/m2 for gestational a...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Hill M,Reed KL,Cohen WR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the incidence of twin births and their birth weight characteristics in mothers aged > or = 40 years with those of mothers aged 35-39 years. METHODS:We used a population-based cohort of Israeli twins delivered between 1993-98 to compare birth weight characteristics of 510 and 2102 twin pairs delive...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Blickstein I,Goldman RD,Mazkereth R

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00