Using Ultrasound to Predict Spontaneous Preterm Birth.

American Family Physician;  June 15, 2000 ;     474 words ......on transvaginal ultrasound examination at 24 to 28 weeks' gestation have been associated with delivery before 35 weeks' gestation. In addition, cervical changes before 20 weeks' gestation recently have been associated with preterm delivery...

Midtrimester PPROM Poses Difficult Choices.

OB GYN News;  February 1, 2001 ;     400 words ......caregivers when it occurs between 16 and 26 weeks' gestation in his presentation at a perinatal...to extend the pregnancy beyond 24 weeks' gestation, then you have to discuss survival...rates for deliveries between 24 and 26 weeks' gestation are 50%-75%, patients must be prepared...

Management of pregnancy beyond 40 weeks' gestation.(Information from Your...

American Family Physician;  May 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ......prolonged pregnancy is one that reaches 42 weeks' gestation; approximately 5 to 10 percent of...policy of routine labor induction at 41 weeks' gestation. (Am Fam Physician 2005;71:1935-41...pregnancies continue to at least 42 weeks' gestation. (1,2) Advances in obstetric and ...

School problems of babies born between 32-35 weeks gestation

Community Practitioner;  September 1, 2001 ;     337 words ......behavioural problems in babies of 3235 weeks gestation. Archives of Disease in Childhood...of children born between 32 and 35 weeks gestation may have school problems, a study...1500g) or very premature (below 32 weeks gestation) have been widely reported. There...

MULTICENTRIC PROGRAM FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF THE RISK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF...

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  May 1, 2006 ;     347 words ......uternie arteries (UtA) at 20 and 24 weeks' gestation in an unselected Mediterranean population...undergoing routine morphologic scan at 20 weeks gestation between June 2002 and June 2005. The...Reference values for the mean PI at 20 weeks' gestation were calculated. Pregnancies ...

After 21 weeks, Amniocentesis still 'fairly safe'. (Rate of Nonlethal...

OB GYN News;  January 15, 2003 ;     335 words ......Amniocenteses performed after 21 weeks' gestation caused nonlethal complications in...or therapeutic procedures after 21 weeks' gestation over a 4-year period. Amniocentesis...with cordocentesis performed after 22 weeks' gestation rather than earlier. In the current...

Anxious Patients Often Want Very Early Ultrasound Exam.

OB GYN News;  June 15, 2001 ;     635 words ......to evaluate the pregnancy: * Four weeks' gestation. The first sonographic sign of pregnancy...sign of pregnancy. Between 4.5 and 5 weeks' gestation in intrauterine pregnancies, real...Beach Memorial Medical Center. * Five weeks' gestation. The first definitive ultrasound finding...

Intraabdominal surgery riskier in first trimester. (Delivery before 20...

OB GYN News;  July 15, 2002 ;     261 words ......Women undergoing surgery before 13 weeks' gestation were at drastically higher risk for...Center in Cleveland. Surgery after 24 weeks' gestation was also risky, Dr. Stepp said at...underwent surgery between 13 and 23 weeks' gestation faced only a 16% chance of a preterm...

Depression during pregnancy affects 12%-14%. (Large Cohort Study).

OB GYN News;  November 1, 2001 ;     142 words ......probable depression was noted in 12% at 18 weeks' gestation, 14% at 32 weeks' gestation, 9% at 8 weeks post partum, and 8% at...threshold for depression between 18 and 32 weeks' gestation than between 32 weeks' gestation and 8...

SSRI use in late pregnancy increases risk of PPHN.(Selective serotonin...

American Family Physician;  June 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......determine whether SSRI use after 20 weeks' gestation was associated with a higher risk...shortly after birth at greater than 34 weeks' gestation, and (2) evidence of pulmonary hypertension...mothers reported using SSRIs after 20 weeks' gestation. When adjustments were made for ...

Hyperemesis gravidarum--A serious complication of pregnancy. (Original...

Nutrition & Dietetics: The Journal of the Dieticians Association of Australia;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......year-old female who presented ten weeks gestation into her pregnancy with twins with...history of nausea and vomiting. At 12 weeks gestation she had lost 14% of her prepregnancy...Nasogastric feeding continued until 16 weeks gestation at which time the tube dislodged and...

Chorioamnion Infections Can Cause Preterm Delivery.

OB GYN News;  October 15, 1999 ;     364 words ......delivery are most common before 27 weeks' gestation, but most preterm births are not...women who delivered at less than 24 weeks' gestation (9%) and those who delivered at 25-26 weeks' gestation (8%). The prevalence of infection...

Persistent fetal heart rate hypovariability: a presenting clinical sign of...

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......cases. Here, we report a case of a 39 weeks' gestation infant, with persistent fetal heart...Here, we report a case of a 39 +3/7 weeks' gestation infant in which a persistent fetal...at the outpatients clinic at 31 + 7 weeks gestation of an uneventful singleton pregnancy...

B.C. sextuplets hanging in

Winnipeg Free Press;  January 9, 2007 ;     472 words ......surviving sextuplets, born at only 25 weeks gestation, are lined up in incubators in the...when they are the equivalent of 33 weeks gestation, and with the energy and co-ordination...girls. Lupton said infants born at 25 weeks gestation are "just reaching their viability...

Association of maternal serum [alpha]-fetoprotein with persistent placenta...

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......evidence of placenta previa at 15-20 weeks' gestation, between October 1991 and August...with MSAFP determination at 15-20 weeks' gestation and non-anomalous live-horn infants ≥ 24 weeks' gestation were included. Pregnancies in...