Ethical analysis of the intrapartum management of pregnancy complicated by fetal hydrocephalus with macrocephaly.

abstract：:Anterior sacral meningocele is a rare abnormality. Only 14 cases of it have been reported in association with pregnancy. Of those 14 patients, three died as a result of rupture of the meningocele during labor and postpartum. A new case is presented; the clinical presentation, the diagnosis, and treatment are discussed...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Kofinas AD,Hatjis CG,Ernest JM,Parker RL Jr

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the prevalence of normal endometrial cells in Papanicolaou smears of women with and those without endometrial carcinoma or hyperplasia differs significantly. METHODS:Papanicolaou smears of women with biopsy-proved endometrial hyperplasia or carcinoma diagnosed between 1990 and 1998 were ...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Gomez-Fernandez CR,Ganjei-Azar P,Behshid K,Averette HE,Nadji M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the frequency of and risk factors for serious morbidity resulting in a prolonged hospital stay or readmission among women enrolled in Tennessee's Medicaid program who delivered live or dead infants in 1991. METHODS:This retrospective cohort study included 33,251 women of white or black ethnicity...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Hebert PR,Reed G,Entman SS,Mitchel EF Jr,Berg C,Griffin MR

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the effect of raloxifene on the response to conjugated estrogen cream or nonhormonal moisturizer in postmenopausal women with preexisting signs of vaginal atrophy. METHODS:Postmenopausal women with preexisting and untreated vaginal atrophy were enrolled in this parallel, placebo-controlled, randomiz...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Parsons A,Merritt D,Rosen A,Heath H 3rd,Siddhanti S,Plouffe L Jr,Study Groups on the Effects of Raloxifene HCI With Low-Dose Premarin Vaginal Cream.

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the validity of the Bonney test as a prognostic screening test for urinary incontinence, the urethral and urethrovesical functions were studied under resting and stressful conditions. The characteristic similarity of changes was evident in the functional profile length, closure pressure, and cough pressur...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Bhatia NN,Bergman A

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cryosurgery is regularly used for treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), there are few data concerning freeze technique and attendant extension of the cryolesion. This study evaluated how to create cryolesions extensive enough to eradicate the CIN lesion completely. The way the extension of th...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Boonstra H,Koudstaal J,Oosterhuis JW,Wymenga HA,Aalders JG,Janssens J

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the risk of adverse obstetric, perinatal, and fetal outcomes for pregnant women participating in prenatal sequential integrated screening through the California Prenatal Screening Program who had a false-positive screening result. METHODS:Women who underwent first- and second-trimester prenatal int...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Baer RJ,Currier RJ,Norton ME,Flessel MC,Goldman S,Towner D,Jelliffe-Pawlowski LL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relaxin is a peptide hormone produced solely by the corpus luteum of pregnant women. Extracts of human pregnancy corpora lutea have relaxin activity in bioassay systems. This activity can be measured in a heterologous porcine radioimmunoassay (RIA). Immunoreactive relaxin was undetectable in the RIA in 51 nonpregnant ...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Quagliarello J,Steinetz BG,Weiss G

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the cure rate of urge incontinence after Burch colposuspension in patients with mixed incontinence diagnosed urodynamically, to determine if cure rates were different when the onset of urge symptoms antedated or postdated the symptoms of stress incontinence, and to propose appropriate preoperativ...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Scotti RJ,Angell G,Flora R,Greston WM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although most patients with a surgical stage I endometrial cancer have an excellent prognosis, some patients will experience a recurrence. Endometrial cancer typically recurs at the vaginal cuff or in the pelvis; however, it can recur distantly in the abdomen or lung. Although recurrences have been reported ...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Chen CC,Straughn JM Jr,Kilgore LC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytologic diagnosis of adenocarcinoma metastatic to the peritoneal surface is often hampered by the difficulty of differentiating between reactive mesothelial cells and macrophages from malignant epithelial cells by light microscopy. With in vitro tissue culture technics, the fibroblastic dedifferentiation of mesothel...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Monif GR,Daly JW

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1963 there have been 266 patients with cancer of the uterine fundus at the Medical University of South Carolina. Progestational agents were used to treat 54 but 10 received the drugs for less than 1 month. This report relates to the remaining 44. 34 were treated with Depo-Provera (medroxyprogesterone acetate)...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Rozier JC Jr,Underwood PB Jr

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty nonpregnant women with condylomata acuminata of the vagina were studied to assess the effectiveness of weekly topical 5-fluorouracil application. All patients were instructed to insert an applicator one-third full of 5% 5-fluorouracil cream (approximately 1.5 g) deeply into the vagina at bedtime once each week ...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Krebs HB

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the rate of wound complications and evaluate the effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis in vulvar wide local excision procedures. METHODS:We performed a single-institution, retrospective cohort study of women undergoing vulvar surgery for premalignant lesions between January 2007 and January 2017....

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Mullen MM,Merfeld EC,Palisoul ML,Massad LS,Woolfolk C,Powell MA,Mutch DG,Thaker PH,Hagemann AR,Kuroki LM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 1970s, studies demonstrated that timely access to risk-appropriate neonatal and obstetric care could reduce perinatal mortality. Since the publication of the Toward Improving the Outcome of Pregnancy report, more than three decades ago, the conceptual framework of regionalization of care of the woman and the ne...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors：

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report, the first ultrastructural study of endometriotic implants, compares the ectopic endometrium in 14 patients with that found in the uterus. The ultrastructural features of most of the glands of the ectopic endometrium resemble those of the corresponding glands lining the uterus. Specific ultrastructural cha...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Schweppe KW,Wynn RM

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This Committee Opinion is being revised to provide updated guidance on the management of pregnant women during pregnancy and delivery to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Prevention of transmission of HIV from the woman to her fetus or newborn is a major goal in the care o...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors：

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with a laparoscopically verified first episode of acute salpingitis were offered a second-look laparoscopy to determine the effectiveness of the treatment regimen in terms of anatomic end result as well as to correlate the anatomic end result with future fertility. Until now, 13 women have been subjected to s...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Wølner-Hanssen P,Weström L

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gestational alloimmune liver disease, a form of profound liver failure in the newborn, is the main underlying cause of the entity formerly known as neonatal hemochromatosis. Antepartum maternal intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) has been shown to prevent gestational alloimmune liver disease, which otherwise h...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Anastasio HB,Grundy M,Birsner ML,Blakemore KJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the first known case of delayed hemorrhage of a persistent ectopic pregnancy following surgical and medical therapy. A 2.5-cm ampullary pregnancy without cardiac activity was removed by laparoscopic salpingostomy. The serum beta-hCG level before laparoscopy was 1542 mIU/mL, increasing to 3163 mIU...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Dumesic DA,Hafez GR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advanced abdominal pregnancy is rare, and one that occurs after uterine rupture with delivery of a viable fetus is exceptional. CASE:A multiparous patient was admitted at 29 weeks of gestation for conservative management of placenta previa. She complained of intermittent abdominal pain, but repeated assessm...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Naim NM,Ahmad S,Siraj HH,Ng P,Mahdy ZA,Razi ZR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparing and contrasting two patients with pseudocyesis made it clear that differing psychodynamic factors specific to each patient resulted in divergent ways in which they sought out and used medical care. The propensity of these patients to distort reality was observed to interfere with the usefulness of sonography...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Starkman MN

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electromechanical morcellators have come under scrutiny with concerns about complications involving iatrogenic dissemination of both benign and malignant tissues. Although the rapidly rotating blade has resulted in morcellator-related vascular and visceral injuries, equally concerning are the multiple reports in the l...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Kho KA,Anderson TL,Nezhat CH

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the utilization rate of second-trimester genetic sonogram and its role in influencing the decision for amniocentesis in women at increased risk for fetal trisomy 21. METHODS:From November 1, 1993, to December 31, 1996, a second-trimester genetic sonogram or only genetic amniocentesis (as a first...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Vintzileos AM,Guzman ER,Smulian JC,McLean DA,Ananth CV

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All cases of dermatomyositis-polymyositis in women seen between 1970 and 1977 at Baylor Affiliated Hospitals were reviewed. Twenty-five patients were identified with this diagnosis. Of these women, 5 were found to have a malignant tumor: 3 ovarian carcinomas, 1 cervical intraepithelial carcinoma, and 1 colon carcinoma...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Scaling ST,Kaufman RH,Patten BM

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variability of the baseline fetal heart rate is correlated with good fetal outcome, and loss of baseline variability has been observed as a sign of fetal distress. Central nervous system depressing drugs may also decrease fetal heart rate variability, and thus recognition of the effect of medication on the baseline fe...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Babaknia A,Niebyl JR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current paradigm in obstetrics has shifted toward evidence-based medicine, and yet in clinical practice physicians continue to use interventions for which there exists no credible evidence. This article examines the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) status of home uterine activity monitoring (HUAM) and the p...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Reichmann JP

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Preeclampsia often complicates pregnancies after maternal kidney transplantation. We aimed to assess whether preeclampsia is associated with kidney function decline either during the pregnancy or in the long term. METHODS:We performed an international multicenter retrospective cohort study. Renal function at...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Vannevel V,Claes K,Baud D,Vial Y,Golshayan D,Yoon EW,Hodges R,Le Nepveu A,Kerr PG,Kennedy C,Higgins M,Resch E,Klaritsch P,Van Mieghem T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to compare the effects of two low-dose triphasic oral contraceptives (OCs) on glucose tolerance and insulin secretion. Fifty-seven women were randomized to receive OCs containing ethinyl estradiol and either levonorgestrel or norethindrone. Ten subjects using nonhormonal contraception served as...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Gillespy M,Notelovitz M,Ellingson AB,Khan FY

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how long fetal nucleated cells can be detected in maternal peripheral blood after delivery in cases of fetomaternal hemorrhage, using fluorescence in situ hybridization or polymerase chain reaction. METHODS:Nucleated cells with Y chromosomes were analyzed in 90 blood samples using fluorescence i...

journal_title：Obstetrics and gynecology

authors： Hamada H,Arinami T,Hamaguchi H,Kubo T

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00