Low maternal serum matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 concentrations are associated with preterm labor and fetal inflammatory response.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect on perinatal outcome of replacing glucose measurements for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus in central laboratories with those obtained by portable glucose meter. STUDY DESIGN:Simultaneously, venous blood samples were taken at the 100-g glucose tolerance test, and finger ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Jakobi P,Weissman A,Egozi J,Minuchin O,Geva A

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：AIM:To determine acceptance of pregnant women to undergo fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination in research and clinical setting. METHODS:A prospective study included a research group [part of a study comparing brain ultrasound (US) to MRI in fetuses at risk for acquired brain damage] and a clinical group ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： van der Knoop BJ,Vermeulen RJ,Verbeke JIML,Pistorius LR,de Vries JIP

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether first-trimester measurements of maternal serum PAPP-A and free beta hCG levels were associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. STUDY DESIGN:First trimester maternal serum free beta hCG and PAPP-A were measured in 490 singleton pregnancies. Pregnancies were followed by the fetal-maternal...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Kavak ZN,Basgul A,Elter K,Uygur M,Gokaslan H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune connective tissue disease affecting the body's moisture-producing glands. Some studies have linked SS to adverse maternal/neonatal outcomes, but sample sizes have tended to be small, with few outcomes examined. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Elliott B,Spence AR,Czuzoj-Shulman N,Abenhaim HA

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate cisterna magna size of the fetuses between 16 and 24 weeks of gestation, and to establish a normogram for cisterna magna measurements during gestation. METHODS:A prospective study of normal singleton pregnancies was established. Measurement of the fetal cisterna magn...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Koktener A,Dilmen G,Kurt A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the efficacy of atosiban with usual management of threatened preterm labor. METHODS:In this prospective, open-label, randomized controlled trial, women admitted to the hospital in threatened preterm labor (between 24 and 34 weeks' gestation) were randomized to receive atosiban or usual care (beta-...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Husslein P,Cabero Roura L,Dudenhausen JW,Helmer H,Frydman R,Rizzo N,Schneider D

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Hyperphenylalaninemia in preterm neonates with heterozygosity for phenylketonuria has previously not been described. We report on a very low birth weight infant, born at a gestational age of 27+5 weeks with a birth weight of 1080 g. Due to a positive family history prenatal diagnosis for phenylketonuria was performed,...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Hennermann JB,Loui A,Weber A,Mönch E

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:The outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 elicited a surge in publications. Obstetric reports were with few exceptions characterized by small sample sizes with potentially limited generalizability. In this review, evidence suggests increased susceptibility to COVID-19 in pregnancy; common pregnancy comorbidities may help explain...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Bahado-Singh R,Hassan SS,Szymanska M,Sokol RJ

更新日期：2020-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess pre-labor attitudes and post-labor experiences of the use of vacuum extraction during delivery. To seek associations between traumatic labor experience and personal preparation, physiology of labor and treatment during labor. METHODS:A total of 205 women filled in a questionnaire within five days o...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Uotila JT,Taurio K,Salmelin R,Kirkinen P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the side effects of prolonged prostaglandin therapy especially hyperostosis and other musculoskeletal changes. METHODS:Case files of the neonates, with cyanotic heart disease, who had received prostaglandin infusion from early days of life, were reviewed. Patients with periosteal changes were identi...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Nadroo AM,Shringari S,Garg M,al-Sowailem AM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Universally 4 million newborns die and another 4 million are stillborn every year. 98% of these neonatal deaths take place in the developing countries. Looking at the state of the world's newborns one can see that neonatal mortality rate is about 4-5 per 1000 in the developed countries and nearly 10 fold this in the d...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Atasay B,Arsan S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare obstetrical and neonatal outcomes of vaginal deliveries complicated by shoulder dystocia, according to the length of second stage of labor. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 177 shoulder dystocia cases that were divided into three categories according to second stage duration (1...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Moragianni VA,Hacker MR,Craparo FJ

更新日期：2012-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of the study was to investigate the most frequent causes of perinatal mortality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. METHODS:We analyzed in a retrospective study over a one year period (1999) the following cantons: Sarajevo, Mostar, Tuzla, Bihać, Gorazde, Travnik, Zenica, which represent about one half of the popula...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Fatusić Z

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess longitudinally the changes in cervical volume and vascularization during the peripartum period using three-dimensional ultrasound (3D US) and power Doppler and to determine whether these measures change with gestational complications. METHODS:Longitudinal measurements of cervical dimensions by tran...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Yilmaz NC,Yiğiter AB,Kavak ZN,Durukan B,Gokaslan H

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen women were referred for fetal karyotyping because of advanced maternal age (over 38 years) later than 23 weeks' gestation. In order to obtain more rapid karyotypes, cordocentesis rather than amniocentesis was performed. All procedures were successful, leading to the obtention of normal karyotypes in all cases...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Boulot P,Lefort G,Bachelard B,Humeau C,Hedon B,Laffargue F,Viala JL

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the normal oxygen saturation trends and fetomaternal correlates in healthy term newborns within 30 min of life born by normal vaginal delivery (NVD) and elective cesarean section (CS). MATERIALS AND METHODS:A cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 healthy term newborns born by NVD and elective ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Bhargava R,Mathur M,Patodia J

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if uterine artery Doppler velocimetry is useful in identifying chronic hypertensive pregnancies at risk for superimposed preeclampsia and adverse perinatal outcome. Resistance index (RI) was assessed by color velocimetry at the level of uterine arteries at 23-24 weeks of gestation in 42 women with chronic...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Caruso A,Caforio L,Testa AC,Ferrazzani S,Mastromarino C,Mancuso S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation is to study the effect of amniotic fluid myoglobin on prostaglandin synthesis by the fetal membranes. The paper presents results of radioimmunologic studies of myoglobin levels in various biological fluids during pregnancy: amniotic fluid, maternal serum samples obtained from an an...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Orlov VI,Pogorelova TN,Melkonova KY

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Rescue cervical cerclage (RCC), also known as emergency cerclage, has long been the subject of controversy. Its use in women who have a dilated cervix has been ambivalent. RCC is often considered as a salvage measure for pregnancies which are at a high risk of severe preterm delivery (PTD) or mid-trimester miscarriage...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Shivani D,Quek BH,Tan PL,Shephali T

更新日期：2018-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of the assessment of the fetal age and pulmonary maturity was evaluated on 369 patients at various stages of normal pregnancy and complicated by diabetes, toxemia and fetal anencephaly. Gestational maturity was assessed by ultrasonic measurement of the fetal biparietal diameter and by analysing constituen...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Ianniruberto A,Destro F,Capozzi A,Zisa F,Cubesi G,Parisi S

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Placental function in the presence of antiepileptic drugs was assessed in 144 unselected late pregnancies of women with epilepsy. The most common drugs of the mothers were phenytoin (104 pregnancies), carbamazepine (42) and phenobarbitone (26). 144 control parturients matched for maternal age, parity, fetal sex and so...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Hiilesmaa VK

更新日期：1983-01-01 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:Some women exhibit a gradual decrease in antithrombin activity until the time of delivery, with antithrombin activity reaching <65% of the normal level (pregnancy-induced antithrombin deficiency, PIATD). However, the clinical features of such women are not well understood and are unfamiliar to many obstetric...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Minakami H,Morikawa M,Yamada T,Yamada T

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:To determine the optimal time of delivery, in terms of lowest risk of peripartum complications, the relative incidences of the parameters. Abnormal cardiotocogram (CTG), operative vaginal delivery, Apgar < 7 at 1 and 5 min, artery cord blood pH < 7.20, blood loss > 500 ml, epidural anesthesia, and Cesarean section, we...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Unger C,Zimmermann R,Huch A,Huch R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the short-term effects of blood transfusion on iron status [hemoglobin, ferritin, soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR), and reticulocyte count], hepcidin, and erythropoietin in stable preterm infants. METHOD:Sixty-three preterm infants treated with red blood cell transfusions (RBCTs) were included. Veno...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Herzlich J,Litmanovitz I,Regev R,Bauer S,Sirota G,Steiner Z,Arnon S

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00