Invited commentaries on: Obstetric complications and schizophrenia/affective psychoses

Asthma guidelines: invited commentaries.

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Obstetric complications as risk factors for schizophrenia spectrum psychoses in offspring of mothers with psychotic disorder.

BACKGROUND Obstetric complications have predicted future development of schizophrenia in previous studies, but they are also more common in mothers with schizophrenia. The aims of this study were to compare the occurrence of obstetric complications in children of mothers with schizophrenia spectrum psychoses and control children, and to investigate whether obstetric complications predicted chil...

Combined Thrombophilia and Obstetric Complications

Gestational vascular complications are a major cause of maternal and fetal morbidity. A growing body of evidence suggests significant correlation of inherited and acquired thrombophilia with pregnancy loss, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, placental abruption, intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), and intra uterine fetal death (IUFD). Placental pathological findings in women with thrombophilia are c...

Obstetric complications in schizophrenia

(BDQ). They were also interviewed using a semi-structured schedule focussed on the phenomenon of bodily change. Each subject was also asked to attempt an estimation of the size of body parts on a linear presentation. All groups over-estimated their body size, with females significantly more so than males. Apart from a non-significant trend for female schizophrenics to over-estimate to a greater...

Management in Obstetric Complications