Does labor start too late?

abstract：UNLABELLED:Alcohol is the most common identifiable teratogenic cause of mental retardation in North America. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a major public health problem, which is frequently under diagnosed by physicians. OBJECTIVE:To identify and quantify the maternal risk factors and neonatal characteristics of chi...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Bagheri MM,Burd L,Martsolf JT,Klug MG

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:In cohorts of infants with proven neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAIT) an unusual high rate of preterm infants has been reported, raising the question of whether NAIT contributes to the high rate of intracranial hemorrhage in preterm infants. METHODS:We genotyped the HPA-1-allele in a large cohort of ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Göpel W,Fehlau K,Kohl M,Schultz C,Möller J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anencephaly in triplets and pergonal induced pregnancies is a very rare incident. Associated cleft lip and palate has never been reported in these case. In this paper we report the first case of an anencephalic infant with cleft lip and palate in a set of pergonal-induced discordant triplet pregnancy. ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Rejjal AR,Abu-Osba YK

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind randomized study, the effect of a single dose of a fenoterol preparation with delayed release of active substance (designated as fenoterol depot) was compared with a fenoterol product with undelayed release of active substance (designated as fenoterol) in two groups respectively comprising 66 and 65 ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Müller-Holve W,Hermer M,Klöck FK,Kreis M,Brehm H,Elser H,Kitschke HJ,Berg D,Harms V,Hägele D

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water births have gradually become more popular in industrialized countries during the last decade. People advocating this form of delivery argue that the buoyancy in water helps the mother to relax and that the warmth helps reduce pain, meaning that the whole labor process and experience is positively influenced and ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Zimmermann R,Huch A,Huch R

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Dilatation of the fetal cerebral ventricles (ventriculomegaly) is a generic sonographic sign common to several pathological entities carrying different prognoses. The main causes of fetal ventriculomegaly are aqueductal stenosis, Chiari II malformation, Dandy-Walker complex and agenesis of the corpus callosum. Ventric...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： D'Addario V

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renin-angiotensin system and dietary sodium have been repeatedly implicated in the pathogenesis of pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH). Mechanisms responsible for increased vascular responsiveness to angiotensin II (A-II) observed in PIH are not completely understood. Plasma A-II levels and blood pressure are fun...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Lee MI,Sokol RJ,Todd H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of congenital infection in humans. Some congenitally infected infants will develop sequelae later in life, especially sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) and mental retardation. There is no generally accepted antiviral therapy for the treatment of symptomatic congenital CMV...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Meine Jansen CF,Toet MC,Rademaker CM,Ververs TF,Gerards LJ,van Loon AM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocyte deformability is an important determinant of microcirculation, of oxygen transport and release to the tissue. In an attempt to clarify the rheological peculiarity during pregnancy, erythrocyte deformability was measured in 10 nonpregnant controls and 10 pairs of mothers and newborns. When the hematocrit of...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Eguchi K,Sawai T,Mizutani Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives To identify the probability of survival and severe neurodevelopmental impairment (sNDI) at which perinatal physicians would or would not offer or recommend resuscitation at birth for extremely preterm infants. Methods A Delphi process consisting of five rounds was implemented to seek consensus (>80% agreeme...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Williams N,Synnes A,O'Brien C,Albersheim S

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is accepted as the gold standard for the diagnosis of arterial cerebral infarction (ACI), but few studies have reported the incidence of neonatal ACI based on MRI findings. We provide new population-based epidemiologic and diagnostic data on all infants diagnosed between 1997 and 2...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Schulzke S,Weber P,Luetschg J,Fahnenstich H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In tocolysis with beta-sympathicomimetics Verapamil is administered universally to reduce the subjective and objective cardiovascular side effects. The efficacy of the calcium-antagonist has not yet been substantiated. This has now re-emerged as an important issue due to the increasing occurrance of cardiopulmonary co...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Strigl R,Pfeiffer U,Erhardt W,Krieglsteiner P,Fischbach F,Blümel G

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare smooth muscle cells, type I collagen, and apoptosis of the lower uterine segment of women who had/without a prior cesarean delivery. METHODS:Alpha smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), type I collagen, and nuclear apoptosis were compared between the groups from lower uterine segment. Twenty-eight controls and 82...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Wu C,Chen X,Mei Z,Zhou J,Wu L,Chiu WH,Xiao X

更新日期：2018-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The purpose of this study was to determine whether head circumference (HC) catch-up is associated with improved neurocognitive development. DESIGN:A retrospective cohort study was conducted in 179 preterm very low birth weight (VLBW) (BW≤1500 g) infants. The infants were born in 2000-2002 and were followed to the...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Ghods E,Kreissl A,Brandstetter S,Fuiko R,Widhalm K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Psychosocial stress during pregnancy (PSP) is a risk factor of growing interest in the etiology of preterm birth (PTB). This literature review assesses the published evidence concerning the association between PSP and PTB, highlighting established and hypothesized physiological pathways mediating this association....

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Shapiro GD,Fraser WD,Frasch MG,Séguin JR

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the impact of maternal obesity on completion of fetal anomaly screening. METHODS:A retrospective analysis of 500 anomaly scans (19+0-21+6 weeks) was included. Women were categorised according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) body mass index (BMI) classification: normal weight (18.50-24.99 kg...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Eastwood KA,Daly C,Hunter A,McCance D,Young I,Holmes V

更新日期：2017-12-20 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：:Objectives Recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) has been shown to effectively and safely prevent the anemia of prematurity and to reduce the transfusion need in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants and has been licensed for this indication in Europe in 1997. The objective of the study was to obtain information on ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Bolte K,Maier RF

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Histologic examination of the skeletal muscles in 8 fetuses and newborn patients with the Pena-Shokeir sequence revealed only minor nonspecific changes which could not be ascribed to any of the well defined myopathies. Muscle fiber diameters were increased in 2 out of 5 patients examined. No significant malformations ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Reiser P,Briner J,Schinzel A

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：: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：AIM:Evaluate the relationship between neonatal weight and pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A. METHODS:Retrospective study on 2564 singleton pregnancies with healthy term neonates in three groups of women with different values of pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A who underwent the combined test during the first ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Giudice I,Benintende G,Di Nicolò AM,Mangiameli D,Carrara G,Randazzo C,Sapuppo IM,Gulisano A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast pumps have been used since antiquity, and their form has changed with the available material. The ancient Greeks used the ceramic guttus type, both to empty the breast and feed the infant. The Romans invented glass milk-extractors, sucked by the mother herself to elevate retracted nipples. Devices in the form o...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Obladen M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to evaluate the literature on survival and major disability rate in preterm infants born at 22- 25 weeks of gestational age (GA). Thirty-three studies were identified and reviewed. Survival was lower in population-based studies (2% at 22, 13% at 23, 35% at 24, and 56% at 25 weeks) than in center-based stud...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Dani C,Poggi C,Romagnoli C,Bertini G

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish the frequency of post-cesarean relaparotomy, identify its risk factors, indications, and operative management. METHODS:This study was a retrospective matched case control study. Records of all women who underwent a cesarean section (CS) from July 2006 to March 2012 were reviewed. We identified a...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Shinar S,Hareuveni M,Ben-Tal O,Many A

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assayed inorganic sulfate by ion chromatography in 49 amniotic fluid samples from pregnancies of 14 to 38 weeks gestation. In second trimester samples (14 to 26 weeks gestation), amniotic fluid sulfate concentrations (317 +/- 22 mumol/L, mean +/- SE; n = 32) were not different from previously reported maternal seru...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Cole DE,Oulton M,Stirk LJ,Magor B

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare normal ranges of ultrasonographically measured fetal nasal bone length in the second trimester between different ethnic groups. METHOD:A prospective, non-interventional study in order to establish normal ranges of fetal nasal bone length in the second trimester in a Greek population was conducted ...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Papasozomenou P,Athanasiadis AP,Zafrakas M,Panteris E,Loufopoulos A,Assimakopoulos E,Tarlatzis BC

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatic growth of a regional birth cohort of 351 preterm infants was followed during their first two years. The measurements of weight, height, head and thorax circumferences took place at the well-baby clinics run by public health nurses at 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months of conceptional age. The growth of the preterm...

journal_title：Journal of perinatal medicine

authors： Piekkala P,Kero P,Sillanpää M,Erkkola R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00