Pregnancy prolongation in women with preterm cervical dilatation utilizing...

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Objective: To identify the impact of cervical dilatation on pregnancy prolongation in women...having a singleton gestation, with cervical dilatation of > or = 2 cm, intact membranes...included. Data were analyzed by cervical dilatation at hospital evaluation. The primary...

Efficacy of aggressive tocolysis for preterm labor with advanced cervical...

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......for preterm labor with advanced cervical dilatation (≥ 3 cm) to achieve sufficient...weeks of gestation and degree of cervical dilatation (Group A: 117, < 3 cm; Group...were admitted with more advanced cervical dilatation. Latency ≥ 72 hours was achieved...

Sublingual versus vaginal misoprostol for cervical ripening PRIOR TO...

European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......procedure. We took the preoperative cervical dilatation that was achieved as the main outcome...Results A similar pre-operative cervical dilatation was achieved in the sublingual and...procedure with regard to achieving cervical dilatation. It resulted in higher pre-operative...

Dilation and history both predict preterm birth.(Women's Health)

Family Practice News;  April 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ...RENO, NEV. -- Cervical dilatation at presentation and over...identifiable variables, including cervical dilatation and obstetric history. As...age at presentation, less cervical dilatation at presentation, smaller...

Effects of epidural analgesia and meperidine during labor.(Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  September 15, 1998 ;     637 words ......associated with slower rates of cervical dilatation, longer labor and more frequent...two analgesia groups had the same cervical dilatation on admission (3.3 cm) and at the...the epidural group indicated that cervical dilatation was less than in patients at the...

The effect of oral versus vaginal misoprostol on cervical dilatation in...

European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......oral versus vaginal misoprostol on cervical dilatation in first-trimester intrauterine...the cervical canal, the degree of cervical dilatation, the duration of MR and patients...case in the oral placebo group. Cervical dilatation reached 8 mm in seven patients in...

EXPECTANT MANAGEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CERVICAL DILATATION (5-10 cm) OR...

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  May 1, 2006 ;     344 words ......progressive dilatation. Methods: In selected patients with a cervical dilatation of >5 cm or ballooning, pregnancy was prolonged for...amnintic cavity occurs in up to 50% in women presenting with cervical dilatation in the midtrimester, in general in 20% of singleton and...

Epidural analgesia prolongs the active phase of labor. (Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  November 15, 2002 ;     403 words ......classic Friedman curve of cervical dilatation has been used since 1954...defined as a change in cervical dilatation commencing with dilatation...on admission. Complete cervical dilatation defined the onset of the...

Amniotomy in active labor.

American Family Physician;  September 1, 1990 ;     196 words ......could have affected the course of labor and those with cervical dilatation greater than 6 cm. Twenty-six of the 53 patients received...The effect did not seem to be dependent on parity or cervical dilatation, and amniotomy did not affect Apgar scores of the infants...

Prognostic factors for cervical cerclage. (Tips from Other Journals)

American Family Physician;  February 1, 1992 ;     295 words ......number of previous pregnancy losses, cervical dilatation at the time of cerclage and gestational...in 38.2 percent of pregnancies. Cervical dilatation at the time of cerclage was the...cerclage for an incompetent cervix is cervical dilatation. Patients should be informed that...

The rupture through posterior vaginal fornix of the posterior lower...

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......it was found that there was no cervical dilatation and effacement and the Bishop score...prostaglandin application. We evaluated cervical dilatation and effacement via vaginal examination...fourth prostaglandin application, cervical dilatation was 0.5 cm, and effacement 25...

STAN®-recorded intrapartum loss of beat-to-beat variation associated with...

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......labor ward protocol. Cervical dilatation progressed normally...At 17:50 hours (5 cm cervical dilatation), a fetal scalp electrode...shortly before full cervical dilatation, the woman lost breathing...

Home uterine monitoring for detection of preterm labor. (Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  April 1, 1992 ;     341 words ......monitoring. Preterm labor, as measured by cervical dilatation, was detected in 24.7 percent of...labor was detected before 2 cm of cervical dilatation in 73.1 percent of monitored patients...of preterm labor before advanced cervical dilatation occurs. This earlier detection allows...

labor

The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia;      76 words ......Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 labor, the time and processes that occur during childbirth from the beginning of cervical dilatation to the delivery of the placenta, or after-birth. See also birth, cardinal movements of labor. The ideas, procedures and...

Sublingual misoprostol before first trimester abortion: A comparative...

Indian Journal of Medical Sciences;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......often associated with mechanical cervical dilatation of nulli parous cervix. Pharmacological...abortion is effective in facilitating cervical dilatation and was associated with side effects...of misoprostol for preoperative cervical dilatation in women undergoing surgical abortion...