Herceptin (trastuzumab) therapy in a twin pregnancy with associated oligohydramnios.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to summarize 3 recent high-profile infectious disease threats that have affected the United States: severe acute respiratory syndrome, West Nile virus, and anthrax. STUDY DESIGN:A systematic review was conducted with the use of Medline searches, searches of the Centers for Disea...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Jamieson DJ,Ellis JE,Jernigan DB,Treadwell TA

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the first pregnancy in a homozygous familial hypercholesterolemic woman who started plasma exchange therapy 3 years before she became pregnant. We especially studied the effects of plasma exchange on lipid profile, uteroplacental circulation, and pregnancy course. ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Beigel Y,Hod M,Fuchs J,Lurie J,Friedman S,Green P,Merlob P,Melamed R,Ovadia J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to compare treatment outcomes in pregnancies affected with twin-twin transfusion syndrome. Treatment consisted of serial amnioreduction or septostomy. STUDY DESIGN:A retrospective review of patients who were diagnosed with twin-twin transfusion syndrome from June 1998 to June 20...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Johnson JR,Rossi KQ,O'Shaughnessy RW

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One or more infants of a multifetal pregnancy occasionally require delivery selectively because of in utero risk of fetal death in circumstances in which the sibling fetus appears well. At 26 weeks 5 days of gestation a small fundally placed twin in a dichorionic gestation had an estimated fetal weight of 650 g with d...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Porreco RP,Sabin ED,Heyborne KD,Lingle JR

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to investigate the long-term impact of anal sphincter laceration on anal incontinence. STUDY DESIGN:Five to 10 years after first delivery, anal incontinence and other bowel symptoms were measured with the Epidemiology of Prolapse and Incontinence Questionnaire and the short form...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Evers EC,Blomquist JL,McDermott KC,Handa VL

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intra-abdominal vector forces have been implicated in the development of genital prolapse. Because the normal spinal curvature appears to protect the pelvic cavity from direct upper abdominal forces, variations in spinal curvature may alter these vector forces and possibly potentiate the development of pelvic...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Mattox TF,Lucente V,McIntyre P,Miklos JR,Tomezsko J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 1,613 women studied with routine ultrasonography prior to genetic amniocentesis at Northwestern University Medical School, 25 of 26 multiple gestations were detected. Sampling of fluid from both amniotic sacs was requested by 20 women with twin gestations in which both fetuses were ultrasonographically determine...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Elias S,Gerbie AB,Simpson JL,Nadler HL,Sabbagha RE,Shkolnik A

更新日期：1980-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive cervical squamous cell carcinoma was diagnosed in 45 patients less than 35 years old from 1980 to 1985. Thirty-two cases were Stage IB; 10, Stage IIB; and three, Stage IIIB. Twenty-two patients developed persistent or recurrent disease. Only one of these is now alive with no evidence of tumor. The mean interv...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Fedorkow DM,Robertson DI,Duggan MA,Nation JG,McGregor SE,Stuart GC

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine the interventions utilized by maternal-fetal medicine specialists in the prediction and prevention of preterm labor in higher-order multiple (HOM) gestations. STUDY DESIGN:Online questionnaires and email surveys were sent to all the maternal-fetal medicine specialists in Canada (n=122)...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Baker E,Hunter T,Okun N,Farine D

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pregnancy induces rapid, progressive, and substantial changes to the cardiovascular system. The low recurrence risk of preeclampsia, despite familial predisposition, suggests an adaptation associated with pregnancy that attenuates the risk for subsequent preeclampsia. We aimed to evaluate the persistent effec...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Morris EA,Hale SA,Badger GJ,Magness RR,Bernstein IM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purposes of this study were (1) to determine 24-hour urinary protein excretion rates in normal human pregnancy and (2) to assess the reliability of assessment of proteinuria by dipstick measurement. STUDY DESIGN:At 17 to 20 and 33 to 36 weeks of pregnancy, 174 normal volunteers collected a 24-hour urine...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Kuo VS,Koumantakis G,Gallery ED

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrauterine infection with Candida albicans is a rare occurrence in pregnancy. We report the association of an intrauterine contraceptive device with such an infection in an asymptomatic patient. This infection, discovered incidentally at the time of genetic amniocentesis for advanced maternal age, resulted in a spon...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Smith CV,Horenstein J,Platt LD

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans possesses the ability to switch reversibly and at high frequency between a number of heritable phenotypes distinguishable by colony morphology and in some cases cellular phenotype. In the original switching system identified in C. albicans, it was demonstrated that cells could switch at frequencies as...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Soll DR

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to evaluate the efficacy of maternal posturing during labor on the prevention of persistent occiput posterior (OP) position. STUDY DESIGN:We conducted a randomized trial including 220 patients in labor with a single fetus in documented OP position. Main outcome was the proportion of anterior rotati...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Desbriere R,Blanc J,Le Dû R,Renner JP,Carcopino X,Loundou A,d'Ercole C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma cortisol levels were studied in the cord blood and neonatal blood of the following vaginally delivered groups: (A) postmature; (B) postterm (but not postmature); and (C) term neonates. Significantly lower levels of 8 A.M. neonatal plama cortisol were found in postmature neonates when compared with term neonates...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Nwosu U,Wallach EE,Boggs TR,Nemiroff RL,Bongiovanni AM

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the contribution of psychosocial stress to the racial/ethnic disparities in preterm delivery in the United States and addresses the subset of psychosocial stressors that are disproportionately prevalent among minority women. We argue that chronic exposure to poverty, racism, and insecure neighbo...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Rich-Edwards JW,Grizzard TA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prospective pregnancy evaluation through the combined use of a radioimmunoassay (RIA) for the beta-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG) and ultrasound during the first 42 days of gestation after ovulation was performed on a population asymptomatic for first-trimester spontaneous abortion. One hundred for...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Batzer FR,Weiner S,Corson SL,Schlaff S,Otis C

更新日期：1983-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although an association between subclinical intrauterine infection and preterm birth is well established, there is conflicting evidence regarding the benefits of antibiotic administration to women in preterm labor with intact membranes. We attempted to determine the effect of ampicillin-amoxicillin and erythr...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Romero R,Sibai B,Caritis S,Paul R,Depp R,Rosen M,Klebanoff M,Sabo V,Evans J,Thom E

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium sordellii is a common soil and enteric bacterium that is infrequently recovered from the vagina. We describe three women in which C. sordellii caused puerperal infection and a distinctive and lethal toxic shock-like syndrome. Patients were less than 1 week post partum and each had a single, limited focus o...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： McGregor JA,Soper DE,Lovell G,Todd JK

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductions in publicly funded prenatal care programs in 1981 to 1984 resulted in an increase in unregistered patient deliveries from 7.8% to 14.9% of births at University of California San Diego Medical Center. To assess the economic and perinatal impact of the increasing number of deliveries of women without prenatal...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Moore TR,Origel W,Key TC,Resnik R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 29 cases of squamous cell neoplasia of the vagina following hysterectomy is presented. Two groups of patients were identified; the first presented following hysterectomy for cervical dysplasia or neoplasia on an average of 5.7 years later, and the second presented following hysterectomy for...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Stuart GC,Allen HH,Anderson RJ

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine female patients with the rare congenital arteriovenous malformation of the pelvis were treated at New York University Medical Center in the past 8 years. The patients varied significantly in the anatomic location of the arteriovenous malformation, clinical presentation, and natural course of disease. A gynecologi...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Beller U,Rosen RJ,Beckman EM,Markoff G,Berenstein A

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sustained and vigorous fetal breathing activity was produced in a chronic fetal lamb preparation by infusion into the fetus of either NH4Cl or HCl. Over a 2 to 3 hour period, 20 to 25 mEq/kg were infused. All of the fetuses tolerated blood pH values of 6.7 to 6.8 and survived. The breathing activity began after the co...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Molteni RA,Melmed MH,Sheldon RE,Jones MD,Meschia G

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inadequate or excessive total gestational weight gain is associated with increased risks of small- and large-for-gestational-age births, respectively, but evidence is sparse regarding overall and trimester-specific patterns of gestational weight gain in relation to these risks. Characterizing the interrelati...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Pugh SJ,Albert PS,Kim S,Grobman W,Hinkle SN,Newman RB,Wing DA,Grantz KL

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental origins of disease risk and harm to health have been increasingly acknowledged for numerous outcomes, in both adult and pediatric populations. Adverse reproductive and developmental effects have also been linked to environmental exposures. In addition to the current queries about a patient's alcohol and ...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： McDiarmid MA,Gardiner PM,Jack BW

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are a number of poor birth outcomes with advancing maternal age. Although there is some evidence of a higher risk of trauma to obstetric anal sphincter and the levator ani muscle with advancing age, findings to date are inconclusive. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to assess the risk of pelvic flo...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Rahmanou P,Caudwell-Hall J,Kamisan Atan I,Dietz HP

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The therapeutic effect of magnesium sulfate remains unknown. Its role as an anticonvulsant is controversial. The effect of pretreatment with parenteral magnesium sulfate on the ability to initiate penicillin-induced seizure foci in anesthetized cats was studied. All animals in the experimental group achieved serum mag...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Koontz WL,Reid KH

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progestogens are the first drugs to demonstrate reproducibly a reduction in the rate of early preterm birth. The efficacy and safety of progestogens are related to individual pharmacologic properties of each drug within this class of medication and characteristics of the population that is treated. The synthetic 17-hy...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： O'Brien JM,Lewis DF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this research was to study factors that are involved in centromeric hypomethylation in the pathogenesis of Down syndrome (DS). STUDY DESIGN:This was a case-control study to evaluate the association between methyltetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T and methionine synthetase-reductase (MTRR...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Pozzi E,Vergani P,Dalprà L,Combi R,Silvestri D,Crosti F,Dell'Orto M,Valsecchi MG

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred twenty preterm newborns less than 34 weeks' gestational age have been studied prospectively to determine the frequency of fetal and newborn metabolic acidosis and to examine the relationship of metabolic acidosis to periventricular leukomalacia as demonstrated by serial newborn ultrasonographic examination...

journal_title：American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Low JA,Froese AF,Galbraith RS,Sauerbrei EE,McKinven JP,Karchmar EJ

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00